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Thick-billed Raven (Corvus crassirostris) - photo by David Beadle This raven of the Horn of Africa is the heaviest songbird. Some common raven subspecies are just as heavy, but on average the thick-billed raven is the heaviest of the passerines.

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Wood anemone/vitsippa (Anemone nemorosa).

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Located between Monticello and Moab, Utah, is Canyon Rims Recreation Area. The exposed rock layers of the buttes, canyons and spires are 150-300 million years old and have been formed by erosion and weathering. It’s the perfect place for hiking, biking, horseback riding, camping and wildlife watching. While visiting, keep an eye out for mule deer and pronghorn antelope that live in the area. Photo by Bob Wick, Bureau of Land Management, @mypubliclands

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Autumn meadow (by me)

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Pumpkin toadlet frogs are only known case of an animal that continues to make a communication signal even after the target audience has lost the ability to hear it

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Diagram of the big dipper and the north star. Star-land : being talks with young people about the wonders of the heavens. 1892.

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Might make these into hanging scrolls!

Intended these to look like paintings they’d hang around Eruteak city! (although a woodcut aesthetic might have fit more… oh well!)

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This giant marsupial was a seasonal migrant

The largest marsupial to ever walk the Earth just got another accolade: It’s also the only marsupial known to migrate seasonally.

Diprotodon optatum was a massive wombat-like herbivore that lived in what’s now Australia and New Guinea during the Pleistocene, until about 40,000 years ago. Now, an analysis of one animal’s teeth suggests that it undertook long, seasonal migrations like those made by zebras and wildebeests in Africa.

Animals pick up the chemical element strontium through their diet, and it leaves a record in their teeth. The ratio of different strontium isotopes varies from place to place, so it can provide clues about where an animal lived. Strontium isotope ratios in an incisor from one D. optatum revealed a repeating pattern. That suggests the animal migrated seasonally — it moved around, but generally hit up the same rest stops each year, researchers report September 26 in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

Read more via Science News

Photo Credit: Stocktrek

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September 18, 2017 - Blue-fronted Amazon, Blue-fronted Parrot, or Turquoise-fronted Amazon (Amazona aestiva)

These parrots are found in central South America. Their diet is made up of fruit, seeds, berries, nuts, and buds. Living in pairs or flocks of several dozen, they are one of the most common parrots in their range. Nesting in tree cavities, females incubate clutches of three to five eggs for up to 28 days. Though they are classified as a species of Least Concern by the IUCN, they are commonly captured for the pet trade and are threatened by habitat loss in some parts of their range.