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No Such Thing as a Seagull

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Not seagull; just gull 😜 Pointing at cool things in nature. 📍NE Pacific Ocean

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Earth.com @earthdotcom.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Reintroducing bison to Kansas prairies doubled native plant diversity over decades, helping grasslands recover from drought and resist tree growth.
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Bison roughly doubled native plant diversity on a Kansas prairie over 29 years, study finds
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Wikipedia Picture of the Day @wiki-potd.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The Palau fruit dove (Ptilinopus pelewensis) is a species of bird in the family Columbidae. Endemic to Palau, it is the country's national bird and is common throughout the islands.
The Palau fruit dove (Ptilinopus pelewensis) is a species of bird in the family Columbidae. Endemic to Palau, it is the country's national bird and is common throughout the islands.
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Alberta Community Bat Program/Western Bat Program 🦇 @albertabats.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Happy Baturday! Meet the “Skylion.” 🦇 Canada’s largest bat faces steep population declines and high mortality at wind turbines. Widespread doesn’t mean safe. Hoary Bats need protection throughout their time in Alberta, beyond short periods of curtailment during peak migration.
Close-up photograph of a Hoary Bat hanging upside down, showing white-tipped brown fur, a golden-yellow collar, rounded ears with dark edges, and a partially open mouth. Text reads: “Hoary Bat, Lasiurus cinereus. Widespread across North America. But widespread doesn’t mean safe.” A yellow badge reads “COSEWIC endangered.” Photo credit: Jason Headley. WCS Canada Western Bat Program and Alberta Community Bat Program logos appear at the bottom.
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UN Environment Programme @unep.org · 10/10/2026
What if a single bird could tell us the health of an entire ecosystem? In Botswana, the Slaty Egret is a key indicator species for the Okavango Delta. This #WorldMigratoryBirdDay, watch how migratory birds connect ecosystems across continents. @cms.int @euenvironmentandclimate.ec.europa.eu
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Earth.com @earthdotcom.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Wild orangutan mothers travel farther and eat less so their babies can meet playmates, a 15-year study finds.
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Orangutan mothers make surprising sacrifices for their children
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UN Environment Programme @unep.org · 09/10/2026
Spending time in nature can do wonders for mental well-being. From a walk in the park to gardening or simply enjoying some fresh air, reconnecting with nature can help reduce stress and improve mood. This #WorldMentalHealthDay, if you have the chance, take some time to enjoy nature. 💚
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Earth.com @earthdotcom.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Elephants often rumble in overlapping choruses, and machine learning shows those calls carry clues about what the group is doing.
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Elephants rumble in chorus, and their overlapping calls carry clues about what the group is doing
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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Blue button jellies float on the waters surface. They’re related to true jellies, but they’ve got a dry top that feels a bit like a fingernail, and is filled with air-trapping chambers to keep the jelly above the waves This float also means they slide on the water like hockey pucks 🏒
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MBARI @mbarinews.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Arms up if you love octopuses! 🐙🙋 #WorldOctopusDay⁠ ⁠ Deep-sea organisms use a variety of ways to swim. Most cephalopods, like this gliding Benthoctopus sp., have the ability to move by jet propulsion. This one was observed pulsing its arms and jetting gracefully through the water.
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American Museum of Natural History @amnh.org · 07/10/2026
Ever feel like a fish out of water? Meet the giant mudskipper (Periophthalmodon schlosseri). Found on the muddy shores of mangroves in parts of Southeast Asia, it uses its pectoral fins to “skip” or “walk” across mudflats. Photo: wcyongwc, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist
A photo of a mudskipper hauled out of water and onto a branch. The fish is brownish in color and has unusual facial features.
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Wikipedia Picture of the Day @wiki-potd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Tripedalia cystophora is a species of box jellyfish in the family Tripedaliidae. It is native to the Caribbean Sea and the central Indo-Pacific. Its translucent yellowish-brown, box-shaped bell measures about 1 cm (0.4 in) across, with three tentacles extending from each corner.
Tripedalia cystophora is a species of box jellyfish in the family Tripedaliidae. It is native to the Caribbean Sea and the central Indo-Pacific. Its translucent yellowish-brown, box-shaped bell measures about 1 cm (0.4 in) across, with three tentacles extending from each corner.
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British Antarctic Survey 🐧 @bas.ac.uk · 07/10/2026
The world's largest penguin colony has lost its title 🐧 A remote volcanic island near Antarctica has lost over half a million chinstrap penguins since 2011, a decline so steep it could see the species reassessed as 'Endangered'. 🧵1/2
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Earth.com @earthdotcom.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Wētāpunga, New Zealand's heaviest insect, survived on a single island. After 11,000 zoo-bred releases, it now has new wild populations.
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Zoos bred and released 11,000 wētāpunga, helping New Zealand’s heaviest insect bounce back from the brink
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 07/10/2026
Hong Kong hosts, 200 yellow-crested cockatoos, roughly 10% of the critically endangered species' global population. To overcome a shortage of natural nesting spaces, researchers are installing camera-equipped artificial nest boxes to protect and study the birds. @yennikwok.bsky.social reports.
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Artificial nests give Hong Kong’s cockatoos a home – and a chance to study their behavior
HONG KONG — “Spiderman … Tom Holland,” two secondary school boys repeated to each other as they watched conservationist Harry Wong nimbly climb a tall tree at their school, St. Louis School, in…
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No Such Thing as a Seagull @nosuchseagull.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Not having a stomach means you're always hungry... 🦑🌍 🧠 Learn more from @projectseahorse.bsky.social: projectseahorse.org/saving-seaho...
A northern seahorse, coloured bright red, on the sandy seafloor.
Photo by: Pauline Walsh Jacobson (CC BY 4.0), iNaturalist
Text: Seahorses only have a simple tube-like gut without a stomach. Food passes through their digestive system very quickly. Because of this, they need to eat almost constantly — up to 3000 tiny crustaceans a day.
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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 06/10/2026
Sometimes, the most extraordinary things in nature are the things we cannot see.
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Unusual senses: the secret superpowers of amphibians and reptiles
Sometimes, the most extraordinary things in nature are the things we cannot see.
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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 06/10/2026
Large animals such as rhino and elephant need to be moved carefully, if they are relocated to a new reserve.
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Rhinos and elephants can cause huge problems if reintroduced badly – here’s how to get it right
Large animals such as rhino and elephant need to be moved carefully, if they are relocated to a new reserve.
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Earth.com @earthdotcom.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Its eyes are security cameras. The panther chameleon scans with each eye on its own. CT scans found the secret: a nerve coiled like a telephone cord. No other known vertebrate is wired this way. www.earth.com/animals/scien...
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American Museum of Natural History @amnh.org · 05/10/2026
Have you ever seen a flapjack devilfish? Growing up to 1.5 in (3.8 cm) long, this tiny cephalopod isn’t a strong swimmer. Instead, it spends most of its time in pancakey flatness on the seafloor, where it hunts for worms & small invertebrates. Photo: Totti, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
A photo of a flapjack octopus. It is gelatinous, with a flattened shape. It has short tentacles and is pinkish in color.
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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In the southwestern U.S., tamarisk is considered a villain: a water-guzzling invasive tree sucking rivers dry. But 25 years after a beetle was released to knock tamarisk back, water levels still haven't risen--and riparian wildlife is still struggling. Why?
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The Trouble with Tamarisk | bioGraphic
Twenty-five years ago, land managers unleashed a beetle to control an invasive tree sucking rivers dry. But water levels haven’t risen—and the real villains are still causing trouble.
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 05/10/2026
Roughly 60,000 ships cross the Strait of Gibraltar yearly, creating intense noise pollution that forces long-finned pilot whales to boost their call volume. But shouting fails over long distances, raising concerns that animals may become lost and isolated from their pods. Learn more! 👇
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Oceana @oceana.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
All sorts of iconic and economically important species rely on Pacific sardines, which are now overfished. But before they have a chance to recover, the Trump administration wants to increase fishing pressure again and remove sardine protections. Read: oceana.ly/3TkoRU5
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plesnercph🇩🇰 @plesnercph.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🐍Oriental whip snake (Ahaetulla prasina). Max. length 180 cm (5'11"). Eats frogs and lizards. Only mildly venomous to humans. Rear-fanged (fangs are located in the back of their jaw). Found in most of South and Southeast Asia. Considered Least Concern by the IUCN. 📷by kuritafsheen77 on Freepik
A slender green snake hanging on to something not in the picture. It has white and black scales along its body forming broken, diagonal stripes. It is looking up and to the right in the picture.
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UN Environment Programme @unep.org · 03/10/2026
Nature is doing a lot of the work for us. Land and oceans absorb more than half of the carbon emissions we produce. Protecting forests, wetlands, mangroves and other ecosystems is therefore a crucial part of tackling #ClimateChange. More on why biodiversity matters: ow.ly/aQCO50ZTOfU
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MBARI @mbarinews.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This little shrimp has mastered the art of disappearing in the deep 😶‍🌫️⁠ ⁠ Physetocaris microphthalma can hide in plain sight. A transparent body with splashes of red is clever camouflage—red wavelengths disappear in these black waters, leaving this shrimp nearly invisible to predators.⁠
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Curiosity Stream @curiositystream.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
No brain, heart, or blood—just a water vascular system powering movement, feeding (they evert their stomach!), & breathing. Tube feet glide them along, prying clams open. Lost an arm? They regenerate it—some grow whole new stars! Stream Nature’s Weirdest on Curiosity Stream 📺✨
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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
How do fat bears get so fat? 🐻 Catching salmon requires skill, luck, and years of practice. But research shows that the real secret to bulky bears is a varied diet.
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The Art of the Catch | bioGraphic
To bulk up for winter hibernation, Alaska’s brown bears employ a range of techniques for snaring salmon.
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Science News Explores @snexplores.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Humans think farts are funny, but for some animals, farts have a function — from communication to floatation. www.snexplores.org/article/animal-f…
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Farting fish and tooting manatees — how some animals use gas
Humans think farts are funny — but some animals rely on farts for flotation, communication and more.
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Wikipedia Picture of the Day @wiki-potd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The grey-cheeked fulvetta (Alcippe morrisonia) is a species of bird in the family Leiothrichidae, the laughingthrushes. Endemic to Taiwan, it is a common year-round resident found in montane forests and other upland habitats across the island.
The grey-cheeked fulvetta (Alcippe morrisonia) is a species of bird in the family Leiothrichidae, the laughingthrushes. Endemic to Taiwan, it is a common year-round resident found in montane forests and other upland habitats across the island.
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Earth.com @earthdotcom.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Every fall, hundreds of millions of monarch butterflies fly up to 2,500 miles (4,000 km) south to the forests of central Mexico – and not one has made the trip before. A sun compass, a magnetic compass under clouds, and winter cold that flips it for spring. www.earth.com/animals/monar...
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Science News @sciencenews.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Avian flu, overfishing, and a super El Niño have driven the largest colony of Peru’s Humboldt penguins to the brink of collapse. Scientists are still hopeful their numbers will bounce back. www.sciencenews.org/article/desert-…
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Peru's penguins are on the brink. A super El Niño could make it worse.
Avian flu, overfishing, and a super El Niño have decimated Peru’s largest colony of Humboldt penguins. Scientists are holding out hope that their n...
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MBARI @mbarinews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Meet the crowned sea cucumber, one of the deep ocean's clean-up champs 🗑️💫 These squishy sea cucumbers, Peniagone spp., are abundant on expansive abyssal plains. They march across the mud on stocky tube feet. They keep their head down, focused on feeding. Learn more: youtu.be/vsit2ZvNbNs?...
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The crowned sea cucumber is part of the deep-sea clean-up crew
YouTube video by MBARI (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute)
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Curiosity Stream @curiositystream.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
They may be tiny, but Fennec Foxes are built for desert life. Native to the Sahara, their oversized ears help release heat and detect prey beneath the sand. Featured in Little Dogs, Big Personalities, see how this small fox thrives in extreme environments. 🏜️🦊 Watch on Curiosity Stream
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UN Environment Programme @unep.org · 28/09/2026
Welcome to the world, little foal 🐴! In August 2026, a remote sanctuary on Kazakhstan's steppe welcomed the first Przewalski's horse, one of the rarest equines on Earth, to be born on these grasslands in 200 years. Read his story: www.unep.org/news-and-sto... #GenerationRestoration
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Earth.com @earthdotcom.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
World Cassowary Day 2026 highlights how cassowaries spread seeds, support rainforests, and face growing threats from habitat loss.
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World Cassowary Day 2026: The giant bird that helps a rainforest grow
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Curiosity Stream @curiositystream.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It looks like an oversized hamster. It’s actually a capybara — the world’s largest rodent. And in the Amazon, it’s prime prey for the most powerful big cat pound for pound: the jaguar. Predator. Prey. Survival. Watch the full documentary - Jaguar: King of the Jungle - at curiositystream.com
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Point Blue Conservation Science @pointblue.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🦭🦑🧪🌎 We just tagged 75 California sea lion pups on the Farallon Islands. But why? By tagging pups with unique flipper tags, we can follow them throughout their lives and learn how climate change, El Niño & marine heatwaves affect the population’s growth and survival.
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Wikipedia Picture of the Day @wiki-potd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The common Mormon (Papilio polytes) is a species in the swallowtail butterfly family, Papilionidae. Widely distributed across Asia, it is typically black with white markings and has a wingspan of around 90 to 100 millimetres (3.5 to 3.9 in).
The common Mormon (Papilio polytes) is a species in the swallowtail butterfly family, Papilionidae. Widely distributed across Asia, it is typically black with white markings and has a wingspan of around 90 to 100 millimetres (3.5 to 3.9 in).
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Oceana UK @oceanauk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🌊 Baby seahorses, incandescent ribbon fish, patrolling hammerhead sharks... The utterly spell-binding images from this year's Ocean Photographer of the Year winners will give you the dose of ocean wonder you needed today 📸🔽 bit.ly/4y4Plbl
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Ocean Photographer of the Year 2026 winners announced - Oceanographic
The winners of the Ocean Photographer of the Year 2026, presented by Oceanographic and Blancpain, have been revealed.
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Guardian Environment @environment.theguardian.com · 24/09/2026
Mass sardine die-off pits survival of South Africa’s penguins against fishers’ livelihoods
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Mass sardine die-off pits survival of South Africa’s penguins against fishers’ livelihoods
Known as the ‘energy bars of the sea’ the fish are a key food source for many species, but closing fisheries to allow numbers to recover would cost millions
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ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 23/09/2026
Rare video of night parrot chick hiding in spinifex tunnel in WA desert
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Video captures ranger's joyful tears on finding rare night parrot chick
New video captures a sighting of the elusive bird in its grassy home in the remote Great Sandy Desert during the day.
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Oceana @oceana.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Sea turtles just made history. 🐢 Two olive ridleys have laid eggs on a Southern California beach — the first recorded sea turtle nesting on the U.S. West Coast. Scientists say unusually warm waters from this year’s strong El Niño could be the reason. nyti.ms/4iLbwhU
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Tropical Sea Turtle Lays Eggs on Southern California Beach
It’s the first time in recorded history that a sea turtle has nested on the West Coast. Scientists say it is the latest sign of warming ocean waters.
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 23/09/2026
Sperm whales rest vertically below the ocean surface, but how do they stay in place? A new study demonstrates that the whales release air bubbles to counteract upward buoyancy, allowing them to remain submerged while resting, a finding that could help assess risks from ship strikes.
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Sperm whales blow bubbles to stay afloat while resting, research shows
Sperm whales are the only whales known to rest vertically, floating steadily just below the ocean’s surface. Scientists have hypothesized that the whales release air bubbles to help them stay…
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No Such Thing as a Seagull @nosuchseagull.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Early taxidermied echidnas have their hind feet pointing the wrong way because scientists back then couldn't believe the hind feet pointed backwards. 🌏🦊 🧠 Learn more: youtu.be/YVehM7pRoLM
A short-beaked echidna, a small hedgehog-like monotreme (egg-laying mammal) with a thin snout in front of its face and its back covered covered in spines that transition from light brown to black.
Photo by: Gunjan Pandey (CC BY-SA 4.0), via Wikimedia Commons
Text: The echidna’s hind claws point backwards to better push away dirt when burrowing.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 22/09/2026
Online voting has begun for Fat Bear Week, the annual contest that pits the rotund residents of Katmai National Park and Preserve against each other for the title of most oversized ursine. to.pbs.org/4hGPICY
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Battle for heavyweight crown begins as Alaska’s Fat Bear Week opens
After a summer spent packing away sockeye salmon, Alaska’s heftiest brown bears are ready to throw their weight around.
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Earth.com @earthdotcom.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The peacock mantis shrimp punches with the force of a .22 caliber bullet – 50 times faster than a blink. Each strike makes a bubble that collapses in a shockwave, and a 2025 study in Science found its club filters the shockwaves out so it survives its own punches. www.earth.com/news/how-man...
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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 22/09/2026
Happy mushroom season!
A comic titled "Types of mushrooms" with 12 mushroom species. A wrinkly-looking morel is labeled "creepy but tasty". A brownish deadly galerina is labeled "boring but deadly". A witch's butter on a branch is labeled "jiggles if you poke it". A large puffball is labeled "egg". A creepy red-dripping bleeding tooth fungus is labeled "deeply disconcerting". A fly agaric with a green treefrog sitting under it is labeled "frog umbrella". A black chanterelle is labeled "chalice for forbidden elixers". Three straight-stemmed entolomas are labeled "haha, nipples". A bright purple viscid violet cort is labeled "purple is nice". A birch polypore sticking out of a birch trunk is labeled "tree nose". A complex yellow-tpped coral fungus is labeled "cursed citadel where dwells a fairy queen". A Ravenel's stinkhorn is pixellated at the top for your safety, and labeled "NSFW".
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Wikipedia Picture of the Day @wiki-potd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Malabar pied hornbill (Anthracoceros coronatus) is a species of bird in the hornbill family, Bucerotidae. It is found in Sri Lanka and parts of India, where it inhabits low-altitude forests, particularly near rivers, as well as plantations.
The Malabar pied hornbill (Anthracoceros coronatus) is a species of bird in the hornbill family, Bucerotidae. It is found in Sri Lanka and parts of India, where it inhabits low-altitude forests, particularly near rivers, as well as plantations.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 22/09/2026
After a summer spent packing away sockeye salmon, Alaska’s heftiest brown bears are ready to throw their weight around.
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Fat Bear Week opens for Alaska’s heavyweight crown. Can Chunk, the 1,200-pound champ, win again?
After a summer spent packing away sockeye salmon, Alaska’s heftiest brown bears are ready to throw their weight around.
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Oceana UK @oceanauk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
#DYK bottom trawling is allowed in most of the UK's marine protected areas? For marine havens to actually work we need them to be properly protected against destruction, "in paper and in practice". theconversation.com/were-not-protec…
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We’re not protecting our oceans as well as we think: new research
Overfishing and poor enforcement are just two reasons marine ecosystems are struggling to recover.
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