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Herring Tales by Donald S. Murray
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Donald S. Murray [Murray, Donald S.]

*One moving story that centres on the branding of barrels by companies involved in the herring trade is about a man from Stornoway, who often played in a yard operated ...
( Category: Fish & Sharks March 2,2020 )
Heatstroke by Anthony D. Barnosky
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Anthony D. Barnosky

Chapter 11 Losing the Parts Imagine trying to understand the ecology of tropical rainforests by studying environmental changes and interactions among the surviving plants and animals on a vast cattle ...
( Category: Natural History March 2,2020 )
Dinosaurs Rediscovered by Michael J. Benton
epub |eng | 2019-02-28 | Author:Michael J. Benton

The embryo of Massospondylus curled up neatly inside its egg. Genus: Massospondylus Species: carinatus Named by: Richard Owen, 1854 Age: Early Jurassic, 201–191 million years ago Fossil location: South Africa, ...
( Category: Fossils March 1,2020 )
Natural History (Classics) by Pliny Gaius
epub, mobi |eng | 2004-02-04 | Author:Pliny, Gaius [Pliny, Gaius]

The effects of over-indulgence 137. Careful investigation reveals that no activity takes up more of a man’s life than wine-making, as if Nature had not given us a perfectly healthy ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 1,2020 )
A River Runs Again by Meera Subramanian
epub |eng | 2015-06-16 | Author:Meera Subramanian

The Indian scientific community collaborated with international colleagues through the newly formed Asian Vulture Crisis Project to identify the cause of the crash. Scientists initially speculated that an infectious disease ...
( Category: Natural History March 1,2020 )
The Unnatural History of the Sea by Callum Roberts
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Callum Roberts

Oyster dredging in the nineteenth century. Dredges were dragged across the seabed to dislodge clumps of oysters from reefs along with many other organisms that were later discarded. Source: Whymper, ...
( Category: Marine Life February 25,2020 )
Earth to Earth by Stefan Buczacki
epub |eng | 2018-02-23 | Author:Stefan Buczacki [Stefan Buczacki]

THE DIARY OF ARTHUR, CHRISTOPHER BENSON, 1926 Why churchyards? First, because lichens are slow growing, in some cases extremely slow growing – perhaps 1 mm per year – and so ...
( Category: Wildlife February 24,2020 )
The Bumper Book of Nature by Stephen Moss
epub |eng | 2010-06-14 | Author:Stephen Moss [Moss, Stephen]

Ants Among the world’s most advanced and successful social insects, living in vast, highly organized colonies with one or more queens at the center, surrounded by willing workers. One of ...
( Category: Natural History February 20,2020 )
The Living Wisdom of Trees by Fred Hageneder
epub |eng | 2020-02-10 | Author:Fred Hageneder

The genus Larix is a member of the Pine family (Pinaceae) and comprises about ten species of tall, deciduous conifers with spreading branches that grow in the colder parts of ...
( Category: Gaia February 15,2020 )
The Private Life of the Hare by John Lewis-Stempel
epub |eng | | Author:John Lewis-Stempel

If the hare is a symbol of spring, of dawn, of fertility, the creature truly belongs to the moon. The ambivalent, inexplicable hare is the lunar animal sans pareil. Like ...
( Category: Natural History February 13,2020 )
Eight Master Lessons of Nature by Gary Ferguson
epub |eng | 2019-10-21 | Author:Gary Ferguson

Today we stand without a single enduring creative or scientific tradition or institution, not art or music or writing, nor philosophy or psychology or medicine, that doesn’t still express remnants ...
( Category: Wildlife February 12,2020 )
A Walking Life by Antonia Malchik
epub |eng | 2019-05-06 | Author:Antonia Malchik

MODERN ITERATIONS OF what might be called pop-culture pilgrimage seem humdrum when compared to the Mount Kailash circuit or walking the Camino de Santiago, but there remains something in them ...
( Category: Natural History February 9,2020 )
Friendship by Lydia Denworth
epub |eng | 2019-11-11 | Author:Lydia Denworth

Most of us do not have only four friends. Those in our outer circles—and beyond—are an important part of our lives, too. Scientists approach the study of those people a ...
( Category: Biology February 7,2020 )
Life on Earth by David Attenborough
epub, azw3 |eng | 1978-12-31 | Author:David Attenborough

So feathers did not evolve initially for flight and do not define birds. The birds inherited them from feathered ancestors. And this leads to the realisation that all dinosaurs were ...
( Category: Wildlife January 20,2020 )
Dinner with Darwin by Jonathan Silvertown
epub |eng | 2017-06-29 | Author:Jonathan Silvertown [Silvertown, Jonathan]

11 Cheese—Dairying Milk is the only food that we can truthfully say has evolved expressly for our consumption. Cheese is the result of sharing this gift of evolution with other ...
( Category: Natural History January 19,2020 )

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