The body size of the snake was estimated based on extant snakes with a morphometric affinity to Palaeophiidae. The cosmopolitan distribution of Pterosphenus schucherti is modelled based on the sea surface temperature (SST) constraints of the modern cosmopolitan snake Hydrophis platurus, and the kn...
Some days, this is how it felt when I was in the hospital: trapped in an endless jungle summer, wet with sweat, the rain of tears of the families of the dying pouring down."The book was also sad because it was so clearly not finished. It felt like the solid beginning of a book ...
Mike Channing – who really was a Pastor, of the Cornerstone Church of New Richmond, Wisconsin, was a passionate species hunter, but was even more dedicated to his family and the church. So how is it, you ask, that I didn’t burst into flames when we shook hands? That was the beauty...
The man was refined, aristocratic, and strikingly handsome; he was dressed in a splendid cutaway with an orchid boutonniere on his lapel. His face was shockingly pale, as if he were recovering from a deathly illness, and yet there was a hardness, a vitality, in his lithe frame and gray ...
When is the year of the Dragon? The Chinese Zodiac is a repeating 12-year cycle, so the last time it was the year of the Dragon, it was 2012. Then, it was the Year of the Water Dragon. 2024 will be the Year of theWood Dragon. ...
I thought he might trip on the black snake hose, get his shoes wet on the path or lawn. So I moved it all and turned on the lights for him and quickly tried to read the devotions. My excuse was I was so hungry. I have been too busy to buy groceries and have been eating that ...
Angus was born just weeks after we moved, and he was so tiny and so in need of constant care and weighing and stress about weight. We knew almost no one in Tacoma – displaced now for the second time in a year and change. We didn’t have a lot to keep us tethered. But, as ...
“Mountraille” were merged to create what is today known as “Imperial Ward” County. Imperial Ward was the largest county in the state until 1910 when it was broken up, reforming Mountrail and Renville and adding Burke County to the north, and leaving a much-smaller Ward County to the...
A young fox caught a small black snake for dinner as viewed from the bedroom window. Our friend Martha Kumar is a professorial scholar of the American presidency. I first met her when I served on the National Security Council staff at the White House. Of course, she was born on the Four...
(Meaning stop staring at your phone.) Mostly, I hope I’m passing on what my dad passed on, imagining I hold counsel with much of what he believed in. He was a man of strong family values, maybe old-fashioned (he was born in 1928) but here’s hoping everything is new again....