Decaying Humber Hawk in the undergrowth
#Discovered on Sunday, #Shropshire #car
#HumberHawk #dumped #roadside #AllStretton
#Geograph #Photography
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I don't think I shared this image, taken 24 #November, when I thought I'd finished #clearing the #birch and #sycamore #leaves from the trees around the front of the #house.

Going out tonight I #discovered a host of #oak leaves that have been #blown in by the #wind. Heaven alone knows where they are from.

Looks like there's more to add to the #compost bins.

series of #ancient #marble columns that presumably fell of their transport ship while coming from #greece to #rome. #discovered near the #roman port of #ostia they’re showing the effects of having been submerged for hundreds of years underwater. #archaeology #ancientrome #ancienthistory #architecturalhistory #underwaterarchaeology

@qurlyjoe #saved #discovered

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/creepy-face-in-the-window-karen-silvestri.html #Creepy #face in a random #window This was #discovered in a #small #barn near a #sunflower #maze #AYearForArt #BuyIntoArt

Evidence of Earth’s Oldest #Glaciers Found in South Africa
https://eos.org/articles/evidence-of-earths-oldest-glaciers-found-in-south-africa #discovery #science

Earth’s first #glaciation at 2.9 Ga revealed by triple oxygen #isotopes https://www.geochemicalperspectivesletters.org/article2319/

"Drawing on evidence from some of the oldest undisturbed rocks on #Earth, the study authors said they see evidence for #IceSheets during the #planet’s ancient #Archaean eon similar to those found today in #mountain ranges across the world. It is the oldest evidence of glaciers ever #discovered"

#Researchers #discovered that many #CarbonOffset #forest projects, especially those in the #SoutheastUS and on the #WestCoast , are anticipated to lose #carbon by the end of the century depending on the model approach & the #climate scenario.The findings, according to Wu, show that various #ecological & climate models have various strengths & weaknesses and that taking these factors into account identifies the research gaps for more accurate climate projections.

https://cleantechnica.com/2023/04/11/forests-in-the-us-face-an-unclear-future-due-to-climate-change/amp

#HumanRemains also have the potential through #DNAanalysis to establish the #genetic #connection between #EarlyPeoples & #PresentDay #FirstNation citizens. #DNA #study of the remains of #KwadayDanTsinchi (frozen human remains #discovered in #TatshenshiniAlsek #ProvincialPark ) firmly #established a #GeneticRelationship with living First Nation residents of the #Yukon

https://www.yukon-news.com/columns/history-hunter-canadas-first-settlers-were-in-the-yukon

The #largest #genome of any insect, seven times the size of the #HumanGenome, was recently #discovered in a grasshopper. In a #study published in #PLOSONE, researchers from the #GermanLeibnizInstitute for the #Analysis of #Biodiversity Change & #CzechAcademyOfSciences #prove wrong the idea of #insect genomes being comparatively small/less complex.

Speckled buzzing #grasshopper (#BryodemellaTuberculata ).

https://phys.org/news/2023-03-scientists-giant-insect-genome.amp

#Scientists believe they have #discovered a #new #parasitic #fungus which #preys on trapdoor #spiders in #Brazil ’s Atlantic #rainforest .

The #rare #organism , which is purple, belongs to a group of #fungi that #infect #invertebrates & take over the host. A closeup image shows the fungus wrapped around the body of a #TrapdoorSpider , poking out of the burrow from which the #arachnid grabs insects.

https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/17/parasitic-fungus-that-infects-and-kills-spiders-discovered-in-brazil-aoe

#GUWAHATI : As #India refocuses on #tiger #conservation after the #deaths of 30 big cats in the first two months of 2023, a challenge that daunts the administrators is #timber #smuggling .
On Tuesday, officials in India’s easternmost #Changlang district in #ArunachalPradesh #discovered that the timber #smugglers had managed to build a #kutcha road in & around the #CoreArea of #Namdapha #NationalPark & #TigerReserve. 

https://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2023/mar/16/timber-smugglers-build-road-inside-arunachal-tiger-reserve-2556645.amp

#Geneticists have written new chapters in the #reconstruction of #PreColonial -Americas #history after using #DNA from the #Indigenous #Ashaninka people from #Amazonian #Peru . They've #discovered previously #unexpected levels of #genetic variation in this group & #uncovered a strong hint that these people were involved in South-to-North #migration that led to #transition from #archaic to ceramic #culture in the #Caribbean islands.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/03/230316113957.htm

#December 22, 1823
#OTD Thomas Wentworth #Higginson, American #Unitarian #Minister & #Abolitionist, is
born.

He once #Lost his #Congregation for being too #Progressive.
He #Discovered the #Poet Emily #Dickinson, & they became #Friends.

He asked,

"How many #Lessons of #Faith + #Beauty should we #Lose if there were no #Winter in our #Year?"

#Seasons #Season #Ephemeral #Change
#Suffering #Growth #Wisdom #Joy #Hardship
#Prose #Sermon #Verse #Lesson #Gardener #Garden
#Poetry #Poem #Question

#December 17, 1858
#OTD Charles Morren, #Belgian #Botanist & #Horticulturist, died.

He #Solved a 300-year-old #Botanical #Mystery when he #Discovered that #Vanilla was #Pollinated by the #Melipone ("meh-lip-in-ah") #Bee, a #Social & stingless bee #Native to #Mexico. Like #Monarchs + #Milkweed, they #CoEvolved over #Time.

In 1841, Edmond Albius, a 12-year-old slave discovered that Vanilla could be pollinated w/ a #Blade of #Grass or stick. Today almost all vanilla is hand-pollinated.