Cool animal adaptation evokes Alien design

Everyone, especially fans of evolution, marine biology, and the Alien movies, and especially especially my brother, needs to go look at this page right now.

Thanks to drhoz for the link.

Found in the park

I saw this from a distance, and I could tell it was an animal (I thought it was a tall bird or something) but I was confused. When we got close enough for the dogs to see it, they were REALLY alarmed!



There's a video of Maggie investigating it, trapped in my camera (have to wait for Alexis to return with the laptop to share it with you all).

There are two of these artificial coyotes in the park (on the "island" for Alexis' and Alex' benefit) and they seem to be working, keeping the geese away. (How about that sun-scorched grass, by the way?)

3:00 Snapshot, #191

Home workstation, where I tried to catch up on 3 days of my lj friends list.

On this day in 365 Urban Species: Oak maze-gill. You know, it clouded up this evening, there was some thunder--just enough to scare the dogs--and then nothing. I'm just sitting here sweating, but that's not going to make mushrooms grow. (I hope.)