#Nationalgeographic

David Beard

dabeard

When a person couldn't get to the tiny post office, the 24-year-old postmaster would carry the letter to their home himself, sometimes putting it inside his hat to protect it

Marlo Garnsworthy🌊❄️

MarloWordyBird

1/ Saw a piece of wood almost buried in the sand. But something made me stop to check it out. I’m glad I did because it wasn’t a piece of

Paul Krugman

paulkrugman

Doing some homework on the history of the Post Office. The immediate concern is that Trump may be trying to steal the election by crippling the institution. But he's also

Priya

Prigoose

there was a long period of time -- 300 million years -- when trees fell over but didn't rot. microbes that could ingest wood hadn't evolved yet. so the earth

Natasha Daly

natashaldaly

BREAKING: The USDA just announced that mink at two mink farms in Iowa have tested positive for SARS-CoV-2. Mink in Denmark and the Netherlands previously tested positive, resulting in the

Willy Worker

thetroutpouts

Can we have an honest conversation about this? As a prof, who has had 16 years of being able to fly all over the place, I sure feel shit about

National Geographic

NatGeo

The long-toothed dart moth was largely forgotten after being named in 1890, but today it's being honored as the 11,000th species to be added to the #PhotoArk https://on.natgeo.com/3p5Hhmj “The mammals

Rosemary Mosco (Bird And Moon Comics)

RosemaryMosco

I've been seeing this whales poster by Uko Gorter going around. I wanted to point something out. http://www.ukogorter.com/merchandise/whales-of-world-poster.html See this HUGE chunk of whales I've highlighted? It's a group calle

Debby Ng

torvaanser

Religious animal liberation (放生) comes in many forms. I have witnessed the release of songbirds, snakes, crustaceans, into non-native habitats. Many released animals die from stress or habitat unsuitability, those

Maggie Stiefvater

mstiefvater

getting all the hard-to-shop-for people on my list lizard-of-the-month subscription boxes January lizard: the Pinocchio lizard, Anolis proboscishttps://blog.nationalgeographic.org/2013/10/08/extinct-pinocchio-lizard-found-in-ecuador/ Februa

Roxanne Khamsi

rkhamsi

#THREAD: COVID-19 could be a double whammy for older people -- they're more likely to die from it and they might be less likely to respond to a vaccine. This

Dr. Jonathan Kolby

MyFrogCroaked

Five years ago today, USFWS banned 201 species of #salamanders from entering the US to prevent a #chytrid extinction crisis (see here: https://www.fws.gov/injuriouswildlife/salamanders.html?fbclid=IwAR0VIh1ZXGYgx05ilZnN1x03dsK35TPzAVApe6eoj

Federico Italiano

FedeItaliano76

Yakutsk, the coldest city in the world, as photographed by Steeve Iuncker—a few more here https://instagram.com/p/CKv1r0ejkn5/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link Located in the Central Yakutian Lowland, Yakutsk has the coldest winter temperature

Dr Robin George Andrews 🌋

SquigglyVolcano

NEW: Japan’s ‘Dawn’ - the sole, lonely spacecraft orbiting Venus - has seen a mysterious flash in the planet’s exotic sky. What was it?This signal *wasn’t* sent by aliens. But

Dina Fine Maron

Dina_Maron

Breaking: #TigerKing zoo owners facing further legal trouble. DoJ seeking court order to prevent Jeff, Lauren Lowe from showcasing animals on reality TV. Also bringing civil charges for alleged illegal

Dr Timothy Utteridge

timutteridge

#Fridayfact Dipterocarpaceae are an important plant family in SE Asia, ecological and commercially, and lowland forests in West Malesia are known as ‘MDF’ – mixed dipterocarp forest. #Fridayfact The family

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