StillingAug 2, 2025
Prairie dog taking a break from burrowing.

#photography #nature #animals #darktable #mammals #zoo #denmark #sonya7iii #groundsquirrel #burrowing
Tel AmielMar 4, 2025
#Coruja-buraqueira #burrowing-owl #brasilia #owl #bird
💧🌏 Greg CocksFeb 3, 2024
Top-Predator Recovery Abates Geomorphic Decline Of A Coastal Ecosystem
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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06959-9 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #monitoring #apex #predators #trophiccascade #biology #geomorphology #habitat #ecosystem #otter #seaotter #crab #substrate #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #marine #vegetation #balance #estuary #california #plant #biomass #erosion #marsh #wetlands #saltmarsh #sealevelrise #tidalscour #stormsurge #protection #naturalsystems #predator #marshcreek #burrowing #surveys #keystone #predatorcontrol #coast #coastal #wetlands #geomorphicstability #biology
Top-predator recovery abates geomorphic decline of a coastal ecosystem - Nature

Sea otters recolonizing an estuary in California indirectly reduce erosion by reducing burrowing crab abundance, suggesting that restoring predators could be a key mechanism to improve the stability of coastal wetlands and other ecosystems.

Nature
Lukas VFN 🇪🇺Sep 28, 2023

These Bizarre #Amphibians Changed The Chemical Landscape To Survive A Plague Of #Snakes https://grrlscientist.medium.com/these-bizarre-amphibians-changed-the-chemical-landscape-to-survive-a-plague-of-snakes-50f5ca16bd3b by @GrrlScientist

"#Caecilians are a group of legless serpentine #burrowing amphibians that primarily live hidden in #soil or in stream beds and resemble either a large #worm or a #snake."

Matt WillemsenSep 1, 2023
Famous Neanderthal 'flower burial' debunked because pollen was left by burrowing bees
A new study debunks the idea that Neanderthals buried a man on a bed of flowers about 75,000 years ago.
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/famous-neanderthal-flower-burial-debunked-because-pollen-was-left-by-burrowing-bees #neanderthal #FlowerBurial #pollen #burrowing #bees
Famous Neanderthal 'flower burial' debunked because pollen was left by burrowing bees

A new study debunks the idea that Neanderthals buried a man on a bed of flowers about 75,000 years ago.

Live Science
Lukas VFN 🇪🇺Jun 22, 2023

Snake genome reveals burrowing past and re-adaptation to surface life
https://phys.org/news/2023-06-snake-genome-reveals-burrowing-re-adaptation.html

Large-scale #snake #genome analyses provide insights into vertebrate development https://phys.org/news/2023-06-snake-genome-reveals-burrowing-re-adaptation.html

"The authors suggest that early #snakes underwent a prolonged low-light #burrowing period before returning to well-lit surface habitats. In this scenario, the structure and function of the snake #eyes would have re-adapted to surface light by upregulating the #genes that had been conserved."

Snake genome reveals burrowing past and re-adaptation to surface life

Chromosome-level assembly of 14 snakes in a study led by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, has created a high-resolution genomic reference for the study of snake evolution. In a paper, "Large-scale snake genome analyses provide insights into vertebrate development," published in Cell, the research team details a wide array of discoveries already made by their sequencing data.

Jim BoweringJan 7, 2022
Burrowing Dove
I was standing at the window looking at the snowdrifts in our back yard. There were some birds at the feeder and one of them - a E
https://greencomet.org/2022/01/07/burrowing-dove/
#Uncategorized #birds #burrowing #snow #window
Burrowing Dove

I was standing at the window looking at the snowdrifts in our back yard. There were some birds at the feeder and one of them – a Eurasian ring-neck dove – came hurtling toward the house…

Green Comet