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Fossilization
It's Thor's Outdoor Thorsday! Fossilization is incredibly rare, it really only happens around water, with river beds and swamps being the...

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Aug 26, 20211 min read
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Genghis Khan
It's Thor's Outdoor Thorsday! The only thing that has decreased carbon emissions in the last 13,000 years since the dawn of agriculture...

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Aug 5, 20211 min read
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Amethysts in Greek Mythology
It's Thor's Outdoor Thorsday! Amethyst in Greek means a-to not and methysko-intoxicate. It was thought amethyst would protect a drinker...

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Jul 8, 20211 min read
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Wolves were almost hunted to extinction.
It's Thor's Outdoor Thorsday! Wolves were also nearly hunted to extinction in the Great Plains at the same time buffalo were. The guys...

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Jun 10, 20211 min read
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US Deer Population
It's Thor's Outdoor Thorsday! Deer were hunted to extinction in many parts of the US 100 years ago. Today, because of conservation...

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Jun 3, 20211 min read
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Pronghorn Antelopes
Pronghorn antelopes of the western US, Mexico and Canada are not an antelope, their closest relatives are actually giraffes. They are...

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May 13, 20211 min read
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Have you ever seen a Vampire Deer?
There is a species of deer indigenous to East Asia that has vampire fangs, called the water deer, or vampire deer, it truly looks...

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May 6, 20211 min read
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Drunk Wild Animals?
Every year in southern Africa the fruit from the marula falls and ferments on the ground turning into alcohol. The wild animals have...

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Apr 29, 20211 min read
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Environmental Renewal
We in the United States are experts on both environmental degradation and environmental renewal. Bad farming and hunting habits almost...

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Apr 22, 20211 min read
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Nuclear Energy
Nuclear energy and nuclear bombs are not the same thing at all. Nuclear energy is extremely clean, the white smoke coming from nuclear...

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Apr 1, 20211 min read
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The Fermi Paradox
The Fermi Paradox is named after the physicist Enrico Fermi, the “architect of the nuclear age.” It refers to the possibility of...

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Mar 25, 20211 min read
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Human Fossils
Human fossils and ancient human remains are extremely rare, like we get really excited when we find a single tooth; human remains only...

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Mar 18, 20211 min read
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Forest Fires
As much as 90% of forest fires are caused by humans today.

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Mar 11, 20211 min read
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Oxygen and Dinosaurs
Oxygen levels were much higher during the time of the dinosaurs than today, that is one of the reasons of their large size and also why...

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Mar 4, 20211 min read
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Fitness in Biology
Fitness in biology does not refer to how strong or large or intimidating or predatory a certain species is, it refers to how a species...

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Feb 25, 20211 min read
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Extinction
99% of all species that have ever lived are now extinct. Extinction is the rule, evolution is the exception to the rule.

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Feb 18, 20211 min read
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Chimpanzees
We did not evolve directly from chimpanzees, we shared a common ancestor with chimpanzees around 7 million years ago.

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Feb 11, 20211 min read
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Neanderthal Skeleton
When the first Neanderthal skeleton ever discovered was put back together and put on display it looked more like an gorilla than a modern...

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Feb 4, 20211 min read
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Coffee Beans
There is a story that coffee beans were first discovered by herders in Ethiopia thousands of years ago, when they noticed their goats and...

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Jan 21, 20211 min read
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