🌊🕊️ Soaring Beyond Horizons: The Remarkable

Albatross With a wingspan reaching up to ~11.5 ft, the Wandering Albatross is the ocean’s master glider. From dynamic soaring to periodic ocean rests, explore the science, misconceptions, and marvels of its journeys across thousands of miles.

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#Albatross #Seabirds #OceanWildlife #BirdFlight #Birds #Nature #SouthernOcean #Subantarctic #WildlifePhotography #Ornithology #MarineBirds #Biodiversity #TPC8

In a Major #Conservation Move, #Australia Triples Size of #MacquarieIsland Marine Park https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/articles/2023/11/06/in-a-major-conservation-move-australia-triples-size-of-macquarie-island-marine-park

"Expansion around World Heritage Site protects rich #biodiversity and builds #climate resilience... Australia massively expanded the marine park around #Macquarie Island, providing the highest-level protection for #subantarctic sea life across an area bigger than Germany and making the #MacquarieIslandMarinePark one of the largest fully protected #ocean sanctuary zones in the world."

New #fossils from #Patagonia may rewrite the history of duck-billed dinosaurs https://www.sciencenews.org/article/fossils-patagonia-duck-billed-dinosaurs

Relict duck-billed #dinosaurs survived into the last age of the dinosaurs in #subantarctic #Chile https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adg2456

"#Gonkoken appears to be part of an older, less specialized lineage that diverged from other #DuckBilledDinosaurs around 91 million years ago, before the first #hadrosaurids evolved"

Scientists have made the first on-site observations of the lava lake at one of the world's most remote volcanoes.

' Although it’s only 2,766 feet above sea level, the modest altitude of Mount Michael belies its extraordinary isolation.

“If you stand on Saunders Island,” says Nicholson, “your closest other humans are on the International Space Station. That’s the definition of remote.” '

#volcanoes #MtMichael #LavaLake #subantarctic #SouthSandwichIslands #geology

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/one-of-earths-loneliest-volcanoes-holds-an-extraordinary-secret