Prof Salcedo

I got this from the Science in Color Facebook feed. Please read it, and please follow Science in Color!

Right now, I’m interested in lizards and birds...while sheltering at home, my father and I have been talking about monsters, like those in the movies he’s been watching, and I’ve been daydreaming about dinosaurs because of this. As a kid, I always thought of lizards when imagining what was left of dinosaurs - as an adult, I was delighted to learn that birds are what we think are the descendants of these fascinating animals! I really want to know how developed their feathers were...

I LOOOOOOVE this video and I am sharing it with EVERYONE today.

Super helpful way to make “social distancing” a more real term. Mostly, don’t breathe on someone. And please don’t spit on anyone. But this virus infects the lungs (and maybe other mucus membranes; we’re still learning, and some of what we think we know today may be wrong or outdated tomorrow) - the entire “point” of life is that it reproduces, and this virus needs new humans to reproduce. If you’re at least six feet/two meters away from someone, you’re less likely to do anything that lets the virus get to them alive.

A great egret - yellow bill pointed right, white feathers ruffled along the body filling the left of the photo. In the near background, American coots - small black ducks with white bills - walk in the grass. Grey water of a flooded field is in the far background.