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Today in Michigan #tardigrade news www.yahoo.com/news/science...

Beneath Michigan, ancient rock and water teem with fungi, 'water bears,' and tiny worms

The water likely "was last in contact with the surface 11,000 years ago."

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A horned lark pokes around on the ground among the sagebrush at Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge #photography #birbs #wildlife

A horned lark, which is a medium sized songbird with mottled brown pulmage and yellow and black face, stands on the ground in a small clearing among sagebrush shrubs, next to a gnarled sagebrush trunk. The bird is in the lower right corner looking upwards towards the left side of the image.

This lil buckskin yearling in the Heber herd, in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest, is a real cutie. #photography #wildhorses

A small, young buckskin horse wearing a fuzzy winter coat walks with purpose from left to right in the grame, through a forest of widely spaced pinyon-junipers, with assorted pine logs and sumps on the reddish-brown ground.

A slightly closer-up image of the yearling just a few strides later, passing along a tall juniper shrub.

The yearling is now walking same direction among young pines as the ground has grown rocky on the approach to a stream.

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Making it a Black Stallion Sunday with this McCullough Peaks guy #photography #wildhorses

A scuffed and scarred black horse trots animatedly from right to left in the frame, with his right front forward in the stride. We can see part of his blaze and his ears are pricked forward. His setting is a sagebrush flat with a distant mountain range in the background under a cloudy sky.

This is a closeup image of the same stallion cantering right to left in the frame, showing his head, neck, shoulders, and barrel. His mane is lifting as he canters, and ears are pricked forward.

The stallion is now trotting towards us on an angle through knee high sagebrush, with a lower mountain range in the background under that cloudy sky.

A tomato dumper in Mendota CA shifting his platform to a new trailer so the work doesn't stop. With about 14 pickers on a side averaging 170 buckets each, a single dumper is lifting and dumping roughly 2,380 25lb buckets a day in CAs Central Valley heat. #WeFeedYou

(1) In my social studies of space class this week we looked at historical antecedents to present day ideas about space based industry: company towns. Listened to "16 Tons." Writing prompt: you brought a guitar to your asteroid mining job. What themes will you include in your song about the work?

Along the eastern boundary fence of Sand Wash Basin #photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc

A white-gray wild horse walks left to right through low sagebrush steppe along a fence made of log upright posts and wire mesh topped with a strand of barbed wire, down a gentle slope. In the background we can see the "basin" of sand wash basin, a vast bowl ringed in the distance by a low mountain range.

A few moments later after the previous image, the gray horse is joined by a medium-gray companion trotting just behind.

A pretty gray seal chilling on the beach, on Sable Island #photography #wildlife

The image shows a gray seal in banana position, facing away from the camera towards the greenish water at the surf line but twisting her head around over her right shoulder to look back at the camera, with a peaceful expression.

eshpur @eshpur.bsky.social · 3w ago

I spent a little time on the Assateague Island beach one morning recently with 2 year old colt N9BFT-KPW Flying Diamond and his pops N6BMT-I Assateague Lightning, as they were just bumming around taking naps together. #photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc

Two sleepy horses together on beach sand under a clear blue sky: a bay with socks and stockings over on the left, and on the right side of the image a light chestnut ambles away.

Here in the same beach scene, the light chestnut pony is walking towards the camera looking awake again. There are a couple of surf fishing rods standing up in their holders at the left side of the image, and the bay is trailing behind.

The chesnut pony is standing at an angle towards the camera, with fishing rods behind him and the ocean in the background. The bay pony is also standing in the background, clearly dozing off.

Chestnut pony walks towards the camera, which is taking this picture from a low to the ground angle, with a sassy step and the wind picking up his mane and forelock. Dunes are in the background under a clear light blue sky.

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A curious bachelor stallion in the Little Colorado HMA, Wyoming #photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc

On a gently sloping hill covered in knee-high sagebrush in shades of tan, brown, and green, a black horse with a small star marking walks on an angle towards the camera from the left side of the image. We catch him mid-stride with his left front leg swinging forward. he looks at the camera with ears pricked forward. The strip of sky in the top of the image is light blue with faint clouds.

This spicy little stallion is part of the community of wild ponies on the islands of the Rachel Carson Reserve right by Beaufort, North Carolina #photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc

A chestnut pony with a small star marking stands at a butt-to-camera angle in the right side of the image, looking over his left shoulder towards the left side. He looks on-alert with barely contained energy. His setting is a sparsely grass-covered barrier island rolling sand hummocks under a clear bright blue sky.

American white pelicans to me are part of the "birds that could be Muppets" family. Fish Springs National Wildlife Refuge #photography #birbs

A white pelican with orange feet and black wing tips is soaring in flight, wings stretch straight out side to side, in the lower third of this image and traveling right to left. The background is the steep brown side of a mountain range, with a small strip of blue sky in the top right.

A view of Sable Island from above #photography

An aerial view of the shore of an island, with the shoreline oriented horizontally. The bottom third of the image is blue-green surf water with patterns of white foam in the waves. The middle third is a strip of beach sand with a wrack line, and the top third is the bright green of grass covered dunes.

A lil vesper sparrow atop a sagebrush, in the Green Mountain wild horse range #photography #birbs

A small sparrow with mottled brown plumage is small in the frame, situated in the roughly top left of the composition, sitting on top of the sagebrush shrub that takes up the whole bottom two thirds of the image. In the background is well out of focus rangeland vegetation in blobs of green, tan, reddish, and brown.

One evening at Catalina State Park I poked around in the dark and found some lovely views of the night sky over the Santa Catalina mountains. #photography #astrophotography

A scene of the sonoran desert at night, with some boulders, saguaro cacti, and paloverde in the foreground, dim in the low light. Farther back we see a long ridge of the mountains crossing the image, below a dark sky dotted with stars. The sky grows brighter just above the mountains at the right edge of the image.

This little treasure was born in Salt Wells Creek in 2024 #photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc

A vermilion flycatcher in the Gilbert Riparian Preserve #photography #birbs

A bright red small songbird with black wings, a black stripe over its eyes, and a short black bill is perched on a horizontal mesquite twig, oriented to face sort of right to left on an angle towards the left side of the image but also looking over its left shoulder to look towards the right side of the image. That's a lot of left and right sorry. The birb looks sassy, let's say. The background is another couple of mequite twigs with a tangle of out of focus twigs and sky further back.

A Foal Friday with this little dude on Sable Island #photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc

A liver chestnut foal, about 6 months old, is standing on a hummock on the slope of a tall grass-covered sand dune. The foal is situated in the lower-center of the composition, standing facing left to right but turning his head to look over his right shoulder. Around him 3 other horses are grazing, including two chestnuts at the top of the image and a small chestnut at the bottom left.

This image zooms in a bit more on the foal, and it shows some of the white wildflowers around him among the tall dune grasses. Here the foal has moved such that he is facing more or less right to left in the frame.

From White Mountain: a wild horse family sunrise #photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc

Several horses are grazing, with one standing with its head up in the middle of the image, strongly backlit by an intensely white sunrise. The sky around the sun is rich orange and yellow, coloring the whole scene including the silhouetted horses. The center horse blocks a direct view of the sun, with light rays scattering around her.

One of the wild burro residents of Box Springs Mountain Reserve in Riverside County, California #photography #bonkersforburros

A closeup of a gray burro looking straight at the camera, long ears forward tuned in to the photographer. We can see the cross marking across the burro's withers and shoulder and the stripe down her back, and her tiny forelock stands straight up between her ears. Her background is the steep slope of the top of Box Springs Mountain under a clear blue sky.

PIGGLE: this white collared peccary, aka javelina, was crossing a path in Catalina State Park #photography #wildlife

In a desert environment, a wide packed dirt walking path crosses the lower part of the image, flanked by a steep vegetation covered slope in the background. A javelina is walking casually across the path from right to left.

A Sable Island cutie #photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc

A black phoebe in the reeds at Tucson's Sweetwater Wetlands #photography #birbs

A small dark-gray songbird with a short dark gray bill is perched on a slanting reed stem in the right side of the image, back to the camera and turning its head to look towards the left side of the image. The background is a mass of out of focus stand of green reeds.