It feels like the stuff of myths and fairy tales that these ancient behemoths are just lurking in the deep ocean for hundreds of years, and yet
Posts by Anna Hughes
This one is estimated to be 150 (!!!) years old and that's still young for a Greenland shark
"They are likely far more widespread than we know," [Dean Grubbs] said. "There just aren’t people sampling the depths to frequently see them."
GREENLAND SHARKS 🦈 GREENLAND SHARKS 🦈
After BBC Earth filmed juvenile male bottlenose dolphins playing catch with an inflated pufferfish, some observers speculated that the animals were intentionally getting high on tiny doses of the pufferfish's toxin. Might sea lions do the same?
www.biographic.com/pass-the-puf...
Ghost gear (lost or discarded fishing equipment, usually lines or nets) isn't just a problem for ocean life. Trashed lines don't sink to the bottom and magically decompose; they become a menace to wildlife.
Snow-capped mountains
Tree covered mountains with a really tall snow covered one in the back
great hike on a beautiful day, real shame about the view though
That car from Back to the Future parked on a normal street
hey uhhh cool car
This is great news! Bottom trawlers drag their nets along the ocean floor, indiscriminately disrupting or destroying anything in their path.
It's so important to protect vulnerable habitats like coral reefs from this practice. 🪸🐠
Exactly one year ago today:
haha, it's something much more recent though
no 😞
No but he's Canadian!
tragically I am genuinely losing my mind and it isn't Ted Lasso 😞
no 😞
noo, something that's come out in the last 5 years or so
No :/ but I've seen that show!
noo it's from something a lot more recent
Lol
The reported likelihood of Amoc collapse has increased from 5% to over 50%. 😬
Again and again, we need to brace ourselves for some of the worst-case scenarios and use our anxiety to drive action.
despite receiving eye-watering budget increases to the tune of defunding non-policing staff and services, the Vancouver Police Board can't manage to stay onside of meeting requirements required by the Police Act
"The interval between any 2 consecutive regular meetings must not exceed 4 months"
Ken Sim proposing we get an MLB team in the middle of a huge scandal and resulting lawsuit is so funny
Bright red tulips
More colourful tulips
Real rough double exposure brunette lady in shirt with bright orange and blue. Flowers as 2nd exposure
Not my best lol but GOD the colour
My hand holding a by-the-wind sailor
Tofino, ocean with boats in foreground, mountains in background
Great blue heron balled up in a tree
Beach with logs in the foreground
Devastated to report that the expensive film is better
(Kodak ektar 100)
ok but when do we get a 'GARFIELD MINUS GARFIELD' movie
🔥 Attend a community forum in Vancouver to hear directly from doctors, nurses, and frontline community members about the health harms of LNG.
A natural lake scene with water lilies and an evergreen forest under a blue sky. Photo credit: A. DePalma-Dow.
A bunch of new lake- and stream-related webinars just dropped on our calendar - check out learning opportunities about:
🦓 Zebra mussel control
🐟 Invasive carp management
🏖️ Beach monitoring
...and much more! See the whole list: www.canr.msu.edu/michiganlake...
For decades, men from Milwaukee voided even the appearance of cannibalism. Jeffery Dahmer is taking a different approach.
Mossy tree in a temperate rainforest with little mushrooms growing out
a few little mushrooms in the forest for a moment of calm