by Audrey Benedict | Feb 23, 2022 | ePostCards
ePostcard #150: Darwin’s Megafauna ‘It is impossible to reflect without the deepest astonishment, on the changed state of this continent. Formerly it must have swarmed with great monsters, like the southern parts of Africa, but now we find only the tapir,...
by Audrey Benedict | Feb 6, 2022 | ePostCards
ePostcard #149: A Naturalist’s Bookshelf Photo Credits: All photos courtesy of Audrey DeLella Benedict and they were taken on Cloud Ridge Naturalists trips. These are Red-Legged Cormorants at their nest on a cliff near Puerto San Julian in Argentine Patagonia....
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...
