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Every now and then I come across a wall or a garden boulder that’s so beautiful I have to take a picture. Such was the case with this serpentinite specimen on or around Huntington Street. This is near Oakland’s great serpentine patch, [...]
Geranium Place occupies a sloping bit of land just north of Horseshoe Creek below Redwood Road. This map shows the location plus the sites of the photos in this post. The bedrock here is mapped as Franciscan melange on the west and the Leona [...]
Clue #1, the site:Clue #2, habitat:Mystery plants in foreground, coyote willows behind.The Mystery Plant:Several mystery plants; note red stems.Buds, flowers and fruit.Flowers turn pink with age.Recognize this plant? Or the genus or [...]
El domingo dos técnicos del Cenieh (Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana) han estado en el macroyacimiento Las Sereas, situado en la localidad de Quintanilla de las Viñas (Burgos) con el objetivo de escanear parte del [...]
Richard Dawkins is at it again. This isn’t the first time he’s made inappropriate or offensive comments, and this infographic nicely illustrates the perpetual cycle of eye-rolling and submission as the people who call him out get fed up [...]
Editor’s note: This fall some changes are coming to the HMNS Hall of Ancient Egypt. Some artifacts will leave and others are coming in on new loans. As we prepare for this, NYU third-year art conservation student Kate Brugioni will … [...]
High pressure (HP) terranes are areas containing eclogites and other eclogite-facies rocks found within many mountains belts, including the Himalaya and the Alps. HP rocks were metamorphosed at extreme pressures, up to 3 or even 4 billion Pascals [...]
Leave it to echinoderms to take even the best known of animals, like a sand dollar, and make it even STRANGER than you could have thought!!
But first things first. Sand dollars are highly modified SEA URCHINS that live on sandy bottoms, mostly [...]
I learned about the coral reef ecology course in Bermuda offered through the Earth Institute Center for Environmental Sustainability (EICES) at Columbia University after developing an interest in marine science over the past year. My background is [...]
Os fitossauros eram répteis que evoluíram para formas semelhantes aos crocodilos, apesar de estes não serem aparentados e eram dos principais predadores nesta altura do período Triásico, entre os 237 e os 208 milhões de anos. Este grupo de [...]