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Adventures of a Bone Hunter | Scientific American

Annie Montague Alexander went on paleontology expeditions most women could only dream of in the early 1900s ....

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Beaver makes species' first appearance in Palo Alto Baylands in over 160 years

A young beaver was spotted in the Palo Alto Baylands this week, marking what may be the beginning of the return of the aquatic herbivores after more than 160 years. Researchers, who have long sought its comeback, are thrilled. ....

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"A lot of people would just think it's some sort of weird-looking little worm."

Ted Papenfuss, a researcher at the University of California, Berkeley’s Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, commenting on a rare legless lizard known as the Temblor, which can be found in desert scrub and grassland within Kern and Fresno Counties in California. The vast majority of the lizard’s range is open to, or already contains, oil and gas development. But a proposal to list the lizard as endangered could change the trajectory of the region. (Sierra Club July 21, 2023) ....

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Converging Toward Solutions to Grand Challenges

A hypothetical, space weather–induced power grid catastrophe served as a practice case for building unity and collaborative skills among disparate communities to address a major global hazard. ....

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Best Book of 1891: The Birds of Manitoba | Sylvia Legris

I discovered Ernest E. Thompson’s
The Birds of Manitoba four or five years ago in a secondhand bookstore in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, where I live. Though I had picked up this book on several previous visits to this store, I resisted purchasing it.
The Birds of Manitoba was first published in 1891 by the Smithsonian Institution and printed by Washington’s ‘government printing office.’ I don’t know how similar my copy, a second edition published in Winnipeg in 1975, is to the original; it has a cover with as much appeal as a manila file folder that’s been dropped in a puddle and dried out, unadorned, mottled with age and, by its smell, cigarette smoke. Someone’s felt-tipped handwriting in the corner now worn to an illegible smear. If this book were edible, it would have bad mouthfeel. ....

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