Archive for the 'Nature' Category

Last week, Yahoo placed a story about the burgeoning friendship of a dog and fawn.

Sunday, July 5th, 2009

These stories sometimes prove to be too syrupy for words; so I re-interpreted the photograph.
I had decided that I wouldn’t post it because it was a bit strange.
Then I read  a story which easily trumped my cartoon with a shovel full of reality.
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Euclid woman, 75, charged in fatal beating of fawn
Posted by Jeff Piorkowski […]

New Jersey Man Is Aattacked By Bear Over Salami Sandwich–Yahoo headline, July 4, 2009

Saturday, July 4th, 2009

What I saw…
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Image: (bear) via myopera.com; (paper hat) esnarf.com; (man) 3.bp.blogspot.com via feeathon.com;  (deli) via paulsfinest.com

The story.

Tiny-rannosaurus Rex: Why Dinosaurs May Not Have Been As Big As Hollywood Films Suggest–Daily Mail online headline

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 1:34 AM on 22nd June 2009     
Dinosaurs
may not have been as monstrously big as scientists and Hollywood film directors would have us believe.

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I have included the Daily Mail’s headline because its inventiveness  is worth a […]

The real surprise is that someone found a mailbox.

Sunday, June 21st, 2009

Kitten dropped, discovered in Boston city mailbox
AP

Tue Jun 16, 9:19 pm ET
BOSTON – Officials said a two-pound, eight-week-old kitten was dropped in a public mailbox in Boston and later found unharmed among envelopes and packages. According to the MSPCA Animal Care and Adoption Center, the kitten they’re calling “Postina” likely was stuffed Friday through a […]

And now…for the local gnus…

Sunday, May 10th, 2009

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Images: (#6-gray gnu) via sagarmatha.com; (#4 & #2) via resor.smdendahl.se; (#1) via dic.academic.ru; (#5) via travelweblog.info; (#3) via ibah.com; (coffee shop) via esquire.com

Tiger Frustrated By Greens–ESPN.com headline

Friday, March 13th, 2009

What I saw…

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Images: (tiger) news.cnet.com; (honeymooners) CBS via LIFE magazine

Colo(rado) Boy Fights Off Attacking Coyote With Snowboard–Yahoo headline, Dec. 8, 1:22 pm

Monday, December 8th, 2008

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Image: (Boy from Christmas Story) movieposter.com; (Lamp from Christmas Story)via thingsyounevernew.com;(Coyote) farm2.static.flickr.com;(Snowboard) Burton Supermodel via backcountry.com;(Stone Cold Steve Austin in The Condemned) via collider.com

Two-year-old Tyler Penguin accompanies his mother on his first trip to K-Mart.

Saturday, November 29th, 2008

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Image: Boston Globe Photo Gallery(Melanie Conner/National Science Foundation)

Gigantic mother-daughter hippo duo rampages among Korean kimchi-makers.

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

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(Image) via yahoo.com–(kimchi) AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon; (hippos) AP Photo/Keystone, Andreas Frossard

Tiny, Long-lost Primate Rediscovered in Indonesia–Reuters headline

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

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This undated handout photo shows a creature called a pygmy tarsier, believed for the eight decades to have been extinct. One of the world’s smallest and rarest primates, it was rediscovered in Indonesia by Texas A and M University professor Sharon Gursky-Doyen in August.
(Texas A and M University/Sharon Gursky-Doyen/Handout/Reuters)
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The story is here.

Image: (dime) brunswick.k12.me.us;(fedora) via […]