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I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.
-- Mary Shelley (Frankenstein)

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RDN 1d ago

A Lava Heron of the Galápagos Islands has been determined to be a new species.

Summary: https://phys.org/news/2026-03-tale-lava-heron-student-galapagos.html

Original paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1055790326000709

#Science #Birds #Galapagos

Tale of the lava heron: Student describes new Galapagos species

The Galapagos Islands are famous for the discoveries that shaped Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. Now an SFSU graduate has added one more: Ezra Mendales (M.S., '23) describes a new species as part of his master's thesis. "I feel super lucky with this project. I think we fell into this beautiful story that is really rare," Mendales said of his work with SFSU Associate Professor Jaime Chaves and California Academy of Sciences Ornithology Curator Jack Dumbacher.

Luigi. 🇵🇸 🇮🇷 🇻🇪 🏴Mar 21

Que tipo de peixe Baleia Milagroso é este?
Non, este non é o traballo dun héroe dunha película de ciencia ficción, senón un peixe real, cun nome moi estraño "Morcego".
Pero non pode voar, e tampouco nada moi ben.
Vive ou máis ben "camiña", este "milagre" nas augas cálidas das illas #Galápagos. Mentres outros peixes corren pola columna de auga, camiñan tranquilamente polo fondo e cazan peixes pequenos e crustáceos.

Scientific Frontline Mar 18

Female #Galápagos yellow #warblers engage in frequent vocal singing, but unlike their male counterparts, their songs do not function as signals for territorial defense or same-sex competition. Instead, their vocalizations appear to facilitate communication within a mated pair.
#BehavioralScience #EvolutionaryBiology #Ornithology #Zoology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/03/bs03182601.html

Female song in Galápagos warblers challenges assumptions about birdsong

This research directly challenges decades of scientific bias that treated birdsong as an exclusively male trait driven by sexual selection

Wisdom in Space Mar 18

It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.
-- Umberto Eco

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saildial Mar 17

Quando ci si immerge alle #Galapagos ci si ritrova circondati da #squali, tartarughe, pesci tropicali di ogni tipo, mobule, serpentelli.

Qua la #pesca è regolata e permessa solo a pescherecci locali che non usano reti. Si mangia molto pesce qua ma la cosa è sostenibile.

Siamo stati qualche giorno a fare immersioni a Kicker Rock, sull'isola di San Cristobal, che salta subito all' occhio per la presenza di una grande comunità di #leoni marini.

https://www.saildial.com/2026/03/11/20260311puertobaquerizomoreno/

20260311 Galapagos Puerto Baquerizo Moreno – SailDial

Wisdom in Space Mar 17

The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
-- Victor Hugo

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Wisdom in Space Mar 16

A wise man... proportions his belief to the evidence.
-- David Hume

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Wisdom in Space Mar 15

Many engineering deadlocks have been broken by people who are not engineers at all. This is simply because perspective is more important than IQ.
-- Nicholas Negroponte

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