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In Memory – April 25, 2024

AVMA News

Veterinarian obituaries in the “In Memory” section of the Journal of the AVMA, April 25, 2024

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Birding Beyond 60

10,000 Birds

This week, I once again found myself car-challenged. So I went to another nearby site, Las Mesas , which did not offer any unusual narrative. Instead, in this post I will wax philosophical, while sharing a few nice photos from that outing. Clay-colored Sparrows In about a month, I will have my 66th birthday. In between now and then, I will spend a week and a half in California, in the land where birding may mean walking on paved paths, or even on a wooden boardwalk built through the middle of a

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What were horseshoe crabs originally called?

Reddit Animals

I just saw a tweet where horseshoe crabs are 350 million years old. And it got me thinking. Horseshoes are pretty damn new on the timeline of things. So what did humans call horseshoe crabs before horseshoes were invented? I googlered it and can’t really come up with anything.

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