Nearly five millennia ago, an artist inked an incredibly detailed painting of geese in the tomb of an Egyptian vizier and his wife. Source: https://www.livescience.com/ancient-egypt-art-extinct-goose.html
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Why a winery is the best place to spot two solar eclipses
The electrician who blames a honking goose for losing his job and a bad pun in the Journal of Physiology, in Feedback’s weird weekly round-up Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24732952-200-why-a-winery-is-the-best-place-to-spot-two-solar-eclipses/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Locust Swarms Are Getting So Big That We Need Radar To Track Them
The desert locust upsurge is yet another of 2020’s horrors. From a report: In June, remote sensing analyst Raj Bhagat noticed a strange signal on India’s weather radar. It looked like a small band of rain near Delhi, moving southwest, but Bhagat was convinced it was a locust swarm. “People began to report it,” he says, referring to sightings on the…
Why it’s more fun to be a mischievous goose than a blood-thirsty shark
Playing as a murderous shark on a rampage isn’t nearly as fun as being a horrible goose terrorising a village, finds Jacob Aron Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24632871-000-why-its-more-fun-to-be-a-mischievous-goose-than-a-blood-thirsty-shark/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Goose blood runs cold to carry more oxygen on high altitude flights
Geese that migrate on high altitude routes over the Himalayas have a lower metabolism and cooler blood when they are flying in low-oxygen conditions Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2215242-goose-blood-runs-cold-to-carry-more-oxygen-on-high-altitude-flights/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…