Botanical Wednesday: Perversely profligate
Pharyngula
Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
As long as I’m heading out to the Pacific Northwest again this weekend, let’s look at big trees.
(via UBC Botanical Gardens)
It’s just too bad we didn’t have this customization option when we were having kids.
Uh-oh. It turns out that Iowa is even more remote from the ocean than Minnesota (we at least have a great lake connecting us to the Atlantic, sorta), and it’s darned hard to find an Iowa-Cephalopod connection. Except, of course, that once upon a time the great inland sea stretched up this way, and mighty ammonoids would have been swimming about my hotel room. Oh, well, in honor of our absent shelled cephalopods, here’s a nautilus.
It’s going to take an awful lot of global warming and some major geological activity to submerge Iowa again, you know.
