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  I Am The Cheese — Authority: 127
    I’m glad humans don’t have wings … because I really like being a mammal.   note: if I did have wings … I’d want cool ostrich ones. double note: the talk about me being a genus is a specious argument … or me being a genius is a species argument … or me being … is probably small talk ...
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• Starfish riding a Common Whelk

  
  Jessica's Nature Blog — Authority: 131
  On New Year’s Eve a couple of years ago, winter storms had stirred up the seabed offshore, dredging up all the marine invertebrates like Razor Shells, Common Starfish, Brittle Stars, Spiny Cockles, Common Whelks, and much more. These were lifted up by the waves and tossed high on the shore with a lot of debris and ...
  5 days ago

• A Common Starfish eating a Spiny Cockle

  
  Jessica's Nature Blog — Authority: 131
  Well, the Common Starfish is not actually eating the Spiny Cockle just yet – but it is moving in for the kill! A whole load of marine creatures was washed up after a storm on the causeway between Burry Holms and Spaniard Rocks at Rhossili, Gower. The orange-skinned starfishes ( Asterias rubens Linnaeus) were ...
  2 weeks ago

• A starfish at Port Eynon

  
  Jessica's Nature Blog — Authority: 131
  Just a lovely, lively, colourful Common Starfish, Asterias rubens Linnaeus, washed onto the sand one sunny summer day at Port Eynon on the Gower Peninsula, South Wales. The starfish has a beautiful mottled orange spiny skin. As the arms are flexed, you can see the myriads of translucent tube feet on the under ...
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• The Brother Gardeners by Andrea Wulf

  
  All the Dirt on Gardening — Authority: 124
  History is fascinating when an author is able to write like historian Andrea Wulf. Wulf’s book, The Brother Gardeners, describes the original botanists, their friendships and feuds, from 1716 to 1770. Great Britain became the center of the horticultural world during the colonial period by importing plants and seeds ...
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• Tiny gastropods & pitted barnacles at Winspit

  
  Jessica's Nature Blog — Authority: 131
  If you get on your hands and knees to peer closely at the acorn barnacles high up on rocky shores, especially in the splash zone, you may be surprised to see tiny gastropod molluscs on them, between them, and even sheltering inside their empty cases. Some of these molluscs look like smooth, dark grey grape pips. ...
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• Barnacles on Flat Oyster shells

  
  Jessica's Nature Blog — Authority: 131
    If you can get to grips with the identification of acorn barnacles, sometimes called sessile barnacles, their presence on objects such as rocks and shells can tell you where these objects came from. Different barnacle species grow in different geographical locations. Different species also tend to live in a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Linnaeus University branding by Stockholm Design Lab

  
  Collected Visuals — Authority: 125
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• Thongweed: perennial discs & fertile straps

  
  Jessica's Nature Blog — Authority: 131
    Masses of the  olive-green seaweed, commonly known as Thongweed,  are a frequent sight on the seashores along the Jurassic Coast. The Latin name for this type of brown alga is Himanthalia elongata (Linnaeus) Gray. These tangled stringy heaps represent just a part of the whole seaweed. They are the ...
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• The Bad Company of Positive Psychology

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  Look what theyve done to my song, Ma. Look what theyve done to my song. Well its the only thing I could do half right And its turning out all wrong, Ma. Look what theyve done to my song. --Melanie Safka (1971) When positive psychology first began, some of us clucked our tongues about the threat posed by bad ...
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