The Carboniferous Period is known as the age of giant insects, from hawk-sized griffinflies to human-sized millipedes. Dinosaurs had not yet appeared on Earth and insects were the only animals capable of flight. Oxygen levels were quite high, which likely contributed to their large sizes.
Alex Bryan aims and readies to cast his magnet into the Amazon Creek. He says he tries to look for shiny objects that might be metal.
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A local hobbyist is helping clean up rivers, creeks, and other bodies of water in the Eugene and Springfield area, one catch at a time.
On a breezy Sunday afternoon Alex Bryan stumbles up a flood plain next to Fir Butte Road just outside of Eugene. He’s carrying something heavy he fished out of Amazon Creek using a magnet and some rope.
“It is literally a safe, I cannot believe this, Brian said. Normally what we find is like rebar and like bottle caps and things and like tent poles.”
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Tullimonstrum gregarium - Illinois state fossil , as well as being one of the weirdest, most perplexing creatures known to paleontology.
In 1958, a Mr. Francis Tully brought a siderite (ironstone) nodule into Chicago s Field Museum of Natural History. He had found the nodule in a pile of coal mine tailings in the Mazon Creek area of central
Illinois. Since the mid-1800 s, these tailings piles have been a treasure trove of fossils from the Late Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian) Period, about 300 million years ago.
The ironstone had preserved the impression of a soft-bodied invertebrate marine creature, previously unknown to paleontologists. This creature lived in the shallow seas that covered the American Midwest at the time, and was preserved because of a unique combination of quick burial in mud and chemical reactions. Its body is approximately 19 cm (8 in) long, and appears to have been round in cross section. Some specimens exhibit a Michelin Ma
Lampreys are blood-sucking predatory fish. The earliest ancestors of all vertebrates, including ourselves, were thought to resemble their worm-like babies. Now, recently discovered fossils have overturned that theory, raising new questions about what our ancestors were really like.
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March 10, 2021
Benton County in High Risk
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Finally! Benton County has moved down from Extreme to High Risk on the Governor’s scale. This means more things will be opened, and it allows for some indoor dining. Of course, the counties around Benton are moving to Moderate Risk – as is Multnomah County which is a head scratcher – but let’s be glass-half-full folks and keep toeing the line toward the end goal of everyone being well.
FEMA Coming Through
Benton County will use a $3.1 million loan from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to support mass vaccination clinics. Benton has one of the highest vaccination rates per capita, and these funds will keep that moving forward in spite of the fact that the county will not be getting more vaccines than usual. Benton County will be partnering with Linn and Lincoln counties to operate the clinics