Wild Things:
Life as We Know It

Whale of a comeback, dancing cockatoos, sticky bees, and waltzing pond scum

  • By Amanda Bensen, Joseph Caputo, T.A. Frail, Laura Helmuth and Abigail Tucker
  • Smithsonian magazine, July 2009
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Blue Whale Bobbing cockatoo Bumblebee landing Acacia Fumosa Volvex
Acacia Fumosa

(Mats Thulin)


In Plain Sight

Where in the world could millions of 20-foot-tall trees flourish across an area larger than Delaware without scientists noticing them? In remote and war-torn hills between Ethiopia and Somalia. An Uppsala University botanist recently documented, for the first time, Acacia fumosa, a common tree with gray bark and pink flowers. More than 2,000 new species of flowering plants are described worldwide each year, but few are this conspicuous and widespread.

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Comments (3)

I've sent Snowball dancing to my 2 greatgranddaughters and they loved him.

How can something be single-celled and made out of a colony of cells(multi-cellular)?

Everyone in our flock LOVES SNOWBALL!!



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