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Kamloops Naturalist Club – Annual General Meeting

Posted on January 28, 2020 by Gary HuntJanuary 28, 2020

The Kamloops Naturalists Club annual general meeting was held on Saturday the 18th of January, 2020. It was hosted in the St. Paul’s Cathedral. Key points included an overview of the busy 2019 year, the upcoming busy 2020 year, new and old business and an election. The annual general meeting saw an attendance of around 45 people and ended shortly after the election, potluck, and raffle. Nancy Flood, president of the Kamloops Naturalists Club, gave her general report for the 2019 year. The items she discussed included continued progress on … Continue reading →

The Top 10 Greatest Survivors of Evolution

Posted on January 18, 2020 by Gary HuntJanuary 28, 2020

Interesting story in the Smithsonian Travel back millions of years in your time machine and you’d find some of these species thriving and looking much as they do today: The top 10 Crocodylians Velvet worm Cow sharks Horsetails Lice Brachiopods Ginkgo Duck-billed platypus Coelacanth Horseshoe crab

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Another Species Of Bat Confirmed With White-Nose Syndrome In Washington State

Posted on January 10, 2020 by Gary HuntJanuary 28, 2020

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife has reported the first case of white-nose syndrome in a Fringed Myotis bat. This finding brings the total number of bat species confirmed with the disease in North America to 13. OLYMPIA – White-nose syndrome, an often-fatal disease of hibernating bats, has been confirmed for the first time in a fringed myotis (Myotis thysanodes) in King County, Washington. This finding brings the total number of bat species confirmed with the disease in North America to 13.

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Tiny Plant and Animal Species Raise Big Questions for Conservation Biologists

Posted on January 4, 2020 by Gary HuntJanuary 4, 2020

Canadian Geographic: Nearly half of the wildlife species assessed at the most recent meeting of the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada are small and obscure, with limited ranges. Here’s why they matter. A pair of snails that rely on the last remnants of mature forest near Lake Erie. A fish that grows to less than 10 centimetres in length and lives in just one lake near Vancouver. And a globally rare moss that only grows on one square metre of vertical limestone cliff in Haida Gwaii, … Continue reading →

All of Glenn Dreger’s Advent Calendar Photos

Posted on December 25, 2019 by Gary HuntJanuary 28, 2020

The 2019 Glenn Dreger advent calendar gallery of photos for your enjoyment. Click on each one to enlarge. And now some bonus photos. This post requires some additional work.

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Ancient Insects Ate Dinosaur Feathers

Posted on December 19, 2019 by Gary HuntDecember 19, 2019

The new paper presents the earliest known evidence of insects feeding on feathers, and the authors suggest that this type of parasite evolved during or before the middle of the Cretaceous period, which occurred 145–66 million years ago. Ancient lice ate dinosaur feathers, similar to how modern-day lice eat bird feathers, according to a study published yesterday (December 10) in Nature Communications. Researchers led by Taiping Gao and Dong Ren at Capital Normal University in China, discovered the insect on dinosaur feathers fossilized in 100-million-year-old amber collected in northern Myanmar. The … Continue reading →