Astro-ecologist Claire Burke uses her astrophysics knowledge to protect endangered species and stop poaching, and she loves to watch orangutans in Borneo Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24232361-800-claire-burke-on-using-thermal-drone-tech-to-protect-orangutans/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
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The fish are biting
John Ashley caught these fish – with a camera – fighting and mating during a late May/early June spawning season in Montana. Source: https://earthsky.org/todays-image/trout-in-a-montana-spawning-stream…
Sea sponges collect DNA from fish, penguins, seals
A new study reports that sponges, which can filter 10,000 liters of water daily, catch DNA in their tissues as they filter-feed. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/sea-sponges-collect-dna…
Lake Baikal: Earth’s deepest, oldest lake
Lake Baikal in southern Siberia is 25 million years old and more than 5,000 feet (1,500 meters) deep. More than 2,500 plant and animal species have been documented in the lake, most found nowhere else. Controversy surrounds construction of hydropower stations on a river that feeds the lake. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/what-is-the-worlds-deepest-lake…
Giant devil rays’ secret birthing zone?
The discovery of dozens of pregnant giant devil rays tangled in fishing nets in Mexico’s Gulf of California could mean the endangered species has an unknown birthing zone there, says a new study. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/giant-devil-rays-birthing-zone…
Smoking Psychedelic Toad Milk May Help Depression
No, you’re not going to need a really small stool to sit on while you milk them, but you may want to check with a medical professional before trying to smoke the milk of psychedelic toads … which a new study claims can alleviate depression for up to a month. How? Take a deep, non-toad-milk… Read more » Source: https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2019/05/smoking-psychedelic-toad-milk-may-help-depression/…
The Race to Save the Most Endangered Conifer in America
TORREYA STATE PARK, FLORIDA—Religious scholars have long debated where Noah constructed his floating zoo made of “gopher wood” (Genesis 6:14) and what tree the ark’s gopher wood even came from. Some residents in the Florida Panhandle have an unlikely answer. The place in question is, well, there, and the tree in… Read more… Source: https://earther.gizmodo.com/the-race-to-save-the-most-endangered-conifer-in-america-1833785742