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Cool. We need more people getting into the hobby with a good basic education.

Long read I dont want to edit down. Lets say keep looking for fossil records around volcanoes. https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/05/image_12972-Erethizon-dorsatum.jpg New World porcupines originated in South America and dispersed into North America between 4 and 3 million years ago. Prehensile-tailed...

https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/05/image_12961-Caterpillar-Electroreception.jpg Sam J. England & Daniel Robert found that some terrestrial animals can detect the electric field emanating from their electrostatically charged predators and use this sense to initiate defensive behaviors. These ph...

https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/05/image_12967-Pomegranates.jpg Ellagic acid is a polyphenolic, non-flavonoid compound naturally found in a variety of fruits, such as pomegranates, raspberries, strawberries, and grapes, and nuts, such as pistachios, pecans, walnuts, and acorns. https://www.sci.new...

The disconnecting between life and culture does nothing to maintain society. Too many good people are used up by the mean ones.

The fossil record is a gift that keeps on giving. The three newly-identified species show combinations of features not previously seen before in other living or fossil monotremes, according to Professor Kris Helgen from the Australian Museum Research Institute and colleagues. https://cdn.sci.news/im...

I did change the title a little. She had thought to change it to Sand Castles list which may have been more apt as the "was" is no more. It seems downright healthy to focus on where we have been to get to where we are and re polish all the gems there, and shine the tarnish between them ove...

Location Location Location I cant help but think police enforcement of property laws went into their decision. These folks have seen more than one Nevada Opal across their threshold over the century. https://shreve.com/cdn/shop/products/443730_8e993ca0-ea56-45e5-99b9-cbda90ebd619.jpg?v=1695005620&am...

Lab opal can be as regular as enamel. You can get that in every shade of the rainbow also. Red, yellow, purple pink, black, white and every shade in between. It makes the picture stones of natural opals worth more to stand out.