so for a few months I’ve been seeing this dude with a HILARIOUS pickup truck that has a decal on the tailgate that makes it look like bigfoot is lying down in the bed seductively, using a raccoon to cover up his unmentionables, but it’s ALWAYS at night I see him so i can’t get a photo of it when I’m stopped behind him at a red light bc my headlights make a glare.
and I was telling Brie and my mom about this yesterday and as the universe so conspired, Brie went to the dentist today and discovered that we share the same one.
– Blendo was put together before Mythbusters was a thing – Blendo was so strong and dangerous (for throwing debris into the audience) that The Boys were asked to withdraw it in exchange for a co champion title – they re-entered Blendo years later when the protective wall was much higher. It was once again asked to be withdrawn for a co champion title for the same reason. – copy cat Blendos started appearing and would tear each other apart – Blendo is in the robot hall of fame – Blendo is too strong and powerful
In an “extremely rare” discovery, scientists have found three previously unknown species of toads living in the Great Basin of Nevada. It’s rare enough to find new amphibians native to the U.S. — where only three frog species have been discovered since 1985 — but new U.S. toads are especially unusual. The last one was the Wyoming toad, which was found in 1968 and is now extinct.
Unfortunately, the scientists who discovered these toads are worried a similar fate may await one of their newfound trio.
The three species were found by biologists from the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR), who named them the Dixie Valley toad (pictured above), the Railroad Valley toad and the Hot Creek toad. Their habitats don’t overlap, and they’ve been isolated from other toad populations for more than half a million years, according to UNR biology professor and project leader Dick Tracy.
“We’ve found the toads in small, wet habitats surrounded by high desert completely cut off from other populations,” Tracy says in a statement. “These are absolutely new, true species that have been separated from other populations for 650,000 years.”
The [Center for Biological Diversity] will submit a petition asking the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect Dixie Valley toads — and thus their habitat — under the Endangered Species Act. “If this power plant goes in and the habitat is dried up, this recently discovered species could go extinct,” he says. “It’s a good candidate for an Endangered Species Act listing.”
As for the other new species, the Railroad Valley toad inhabits Tonopah Basin in the central Nevada desert, while the Hot Creek Toad lives about 35 miles away in Hot Creek Mountain Range. All three are endemic to the Great Basin, a watery wonderland during the Pleistocene Epoch that’s now one of the most arid regions in the country. And since these toads managed to stay hidden until now, their discovery suggests we still have a lot to learn about this ancient American landscape.
“Our goal has been to understand the relationships among toad populations in the Great Basin,” Tracy says. “We’ve found that our knowledge of amphibian diversity in the western United States remains incomplete and that novel discoveries continue to occur, even in unlikely settings. This is really, really neat; an exciting thing, to find something not known to exist before.”
Barbara Kentner was murdered. She died July 4, 2017. We’re still (contacting, pushing and) waiting for Thunder Bay police to upgrade the charges from aggravated assault to murder. The Ontario Provincial Police later charged Thunder Bay Chief of Police, J.P. Levesque, in unrelated crimes. Senator Murray Sinclair now leads the investigation into Thunder Bay Police Service Board. Too many indigenous brothers and sisters disappear and die without appropriate follow up in Thunder Bay.
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