I can see the moon

Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura). Family Cathartidae, order Cathartiformes.

National Park Service scientists have lost track of the world's rarest fish

Fearing mass firings, scientists made a desperate choice that could have lasting repercussions

It takes a village to preserve the world’s most endangered species, and last year, the team tasked with protecting the Devils Hole pupfish — a critically endangered fish found only in a single pool called Devils Hole in Death Valley National Park — faced an agonizing decision. That March, the number of pupfish had cratered to just 20 individuals, such that the species was facing imminent extinction. At the same time, staff at federal agencies were being laid off en masse by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency as the government barreled toward what would become the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.  Faced with so much uncertainty, the team made an 11th-hour decision to release dozens of captive-bred pupfish into the wild population in an attempt to boost their numbers. The plan worked, and today, the tiny desert ecosystem in Devils Hole appears to be rebounding. But in their rush to act, park biologists failed to collect genetic samples from some of the captive fish, meaning that scientists can no longer distinguish between those raised in captivity and the wild populations. The ramifications of their choice are yet to be felt, but it could create future management challenges...

Filippo Giuseppini

Cosmographia-1543

Etruscan duck askos

325 - 275 BCE

Ancient Roman carnelian intaglio depicting a grasshopper driving a chariot being pulled by two butterflies.

𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗥𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗞𝗢

No. 15 (Two Greens and Red Stripe), 1964

signed, partially titled and dated 'MARK ROTHKO 1964 #15' (on the reverse) oil on canvas

93 × 69 in. (236.2 × 175.3 cm.)

📸 thanks to Mark Cashion who takes a lot of good pictures from auction houses and contributes them

© 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

This is one of my personal favorites and it's up for auction because Agnes Gund, who bought it directly from Rothko, died and she was one of the good people in that world.