A six-year-old boy has discovered a fossilized tooth of a mastodon, roughly the same size as a human hand, at a nature preserve in Rochester Hills, Michigan.
Portland Monthly
Lake lovers still have to wait to rent a boat at Olallie Lake Resort (above), which has a tentative open date for 2021 of July 22, as recovery work continues after last year s wildfires.Â
Photograph by Isaac Lane Koval
Oregon is defined by water, from the mighty Pacific at our western edge to the rivers that separate us from Washington and Idaho. But those arenât our only H
2O treasures. Tucked along Oregonâs mountain spine are countless alpine pools beckoning for summer dips, paddles, or just Doug fir whispers and mountain reflections.Â
Note: Wilderness access can depend on current wildfires, past wildfire recovery, road conditions, pandemic staffing, land management projects, weather, and more. Consult the Northwest Interagency Coordination Center as well as National Forest websites and social media before you set out, check with ranger stations, and carry maps for alternate routes. Stay away from fire areas, and remember that lakes
Building breaks in middle and collapses 10 metres as thawing permafrost no longer supports stilts siberiantimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from siberiantimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Well, it wasn’t quite
Messiah, but it was a source of joy. In ENO’s end-of-lockdown staging, BBC Two’s transmission of Handel’s resurrection song delivered a scant 54 minutes of music from the Coliseum on Easter Saturday.
Well, it wasn’t quite
Messiah, but it was a source of joy. In ENO’s end-of-lockdown staging, BBC Two’s transmission of Handel’s resurrection song delivered a scant 54 minutes of music from the Coliseum on Easter Saturday. In contrast, two ancient Poirot movies, staples of Bank Holiday line-ups roughly since the Pleistocene Era, had hogged fully four hours of the channel’s afternoon schedule. Miserly, timid, cheese-paring, grudging: the Proms partially excepted, BBC TV’s default attitude to classical music never fails to disappoint – even when the oratorio in question has been a beloved pillar of British popular, not so-called “elite”, culture since the late 18th century.
T
he wooly mammoth (
Mammuthus primigenius) is an iconic animal, like the saber tooth tiger or dire wolf, from a time in human history when our position at the top of the global food chain was decidedly not assured (and being something s prey was not limited to just other humans). Perhaps this is a reason that resurrection of mammoths using Jurassic Park-like technology has some currency and appeal (
but see
How to Clone a Mammoth for reasons why this may not be such a good idea). Perhaps paradoxically, the mammoth arose in Africa 5 million years ago and like its (very) distant