by Audrey Benedict | Jan 30, 2022 | ePostCards
ePostcard #148: Darwin’s Sloth When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before the first bed of the Cambrian system was deposited, they seem to me to become ennobled. CHARLES DARWIN, On...
by Audrey Benedict | Jan 23, 2022 | ePostCards
ePostcard #147: Darwin’s Megafauna Bestiary (Part 1) Image Credit: Courtesy of Sci-News (http://www.sci-news.com/paleontology/megatherium-fossil-argentina-09315.html) This life reconstruction of Megatherium by Sebastián Rozadilla honors the latest discovery in...
by Audrey Benedict | Jan 9, 2022 | ePostCards
ePostcard #146: Reading the Rocks: Cañadon de los Fosiles (Fossil Canyon) Rock carries its own epithets,Its own refrains. — John McPhee Photo Credits: This 2009 photograph is courtesy of NASA’s Earth Observatory archives. You are looking down from space on the...
by Audrey Benedict | Dec 19, 2021 | ePostCards
ePostcard#145: Darwin, Geologist! It is an old story, but not the less wonderful, to hear of shells, which formerly were crawling about at the bottom of the sea, being now elevated nearly fourteen hundred feet above its level. — Charles Darwin Photo Credits: All...
by Audrey Benedict | Dec 12, 2021 | ePostCards
ePostcard #144: A Naturalist’s Bookshelf A NATURALIST’S BOOKSHELF I subscribe to the stewardship vision best expressed by the great Senegalese environmentalist Baba Dioum—we are moved to conserve what we understand and love. Every so often, in researching the...
