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Fact Du Jour – September 15, 2019 – Falkland Islands’ Fauna

It’s not uncommon for ecosystems isolated to islands to become home to a strange assortment of creatures. Charles Darwin marveled at the strange species he and his… Read more “Fact Du Jour – September 15, 2019 – Falkland Islands’ Fauna”

My dad likes to say: There are bold squirrels, and there are old squirrels, but there are no old, bold squirrels. Which of course is wrong, otherwise… Read more “Fact Du Jour – September 14, 2019 – Greenland Shark”

The axolotl, or Mexican walking fish, is an amphibian with regenerative powers to grow back lost limbs. Its numbers are dwindling in the wild due to pollution… Read more “Fact Du Jour – September 9, 2019 – Axolotl – Regenerative Superpowers”

Director Steven Spielberg (and his tube socks) on the set of Jaws. Nearly sixty years before the release of the 1975 movie Jaws, a real-life Jaws story… Read more “Fact Du Jour – September 6, 2019 – Shark Scare of 1916”

Ringo Starr and Peter Sellers Ringo Starr was inspired to write Octopus’ Garden, the last Beatles song to feature Starr on lead vocals, by taking a boat… Read more “Fact Du Jour – September 1, 2019 – Inspiration for Octopus’ Garden”

Australia and its surrounding areas are home to some of of the oddest animals on the planet, and the Thylacine was no exception. It was striped like… Read more “Fact Du Jour – August 16, 2019 – Tasmanian Wolf (Thylacine)”

Anyone remember the character Donny from The Big Lebowski? You might remember him best as from the things he DIDN’T say in the 1998 film! Or, rather,… Read more “Fact Du Jour – August 8, 2019 – Nautilus – The Lesser Known Cephalopod…”

I don’t know if this has anything to do with why long-eared creatures known as “rabbits” are also sometimes called “bunnies,” but… There is a genus of… Read more “Fact Du Jour – July 18, 2019 – Fun Fact About…Rabbits”

When you think of snails, you probably think…slow moving and slimy, right? Not something you’d be afraid of meeting in a dark alley? Well think again! Wait… Read more “Fact Du Jour – June 23, 2019 – Venomous Snail?”

I often fantasize about what it would be like to have a time machine. Not necessarily to change history or anything like that, but to just be… Read more “One Of My Very Strange Time Travel Bucket List Items…”