’71 Buick by Robert Bechtle, 1972 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137203

Undergrowth with Two Figures, 1890

If those are sprues, is there a word for the hole-y pieces of cardboard that remain after you punch out the tokens in a board game? These things? Also attractive in their way.

I'm learning there's a word for these: sprues. I'm big into sprues.

Give me a mechanical keyboard in my dash. Let me test them switches

I live near the mountains in Virginia. The mountains are great! But have you seen our w e t l a n d s ? ?

Friends! What is the most beautiful and underappreciated landscape in your state? The place you wish someone could capture in a painting, that isn’t already famous.

For more info on extinct parasites, I've written two publications on the subject of fossil parasites here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....books.google.com.au/books?hl=en&...

Fossils of parasites: what can the fossil record tell us about the evolution of parasitism?

Parasites are common in many ecosystems, yet because of their nature, they do not fossilise readily and are very rare in the geological record. This makes it challenging to study the evolutionary tra...

The ones for which we do have a good idea of their parasites/symbionts, are the species where we have found their coprolites since many gut parasites have eggs/propagules that exit the host via the faecal route. An example can be found here: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

A Megafauna’s Microfauna: Gastrointestinal Parasites of New Zealand’s Extinct Moa (Aves: Dinornithiformes)

We perform the first multidisciplinary study of parasites from an extinct megafaunal clade using coprolites from the New Zealand moa (Aves: Dinornithiformes). Ancient DNA and microscopic analyses of 8...

Hm, the first format has potential