In a feel-good story out of Texas, Fort Worth firefighters rescued a young girl’s pet frog from a burning home. From the Star-Telegram: “Firefighters conducted a search but found that the house was unoccupied at the time of the fire,” Lt. Carol Jones, a fire department spokeswoman, said in a news release issued Tuesday morning. […]
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Sep 25
Sep 25
Last Pinta Island tortoise preserved forever
How did taxidermists preserve the likeness of a now extinct species? Very carefully and with painstaking research. From Gizmodo: Lonsesome George was the last of the Pinta Island giant tortoises on the Galapagos. Due to human intervention in the ecosystem his entire species whittled down to just George. Since his discovery he’d been well cared […]
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