Archives: December2009

• Yellow-plumed Honeyeater

  
  
  A Yellow-plumed Honeyeater (Lichenostomus ornatus), photographed in the Greater Bendigo National Park.
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  <br />Happy New Year to everyone and a big thanks to all those who visited my website and commented on my photos over the past year
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  <br />EXIF: Canon EOS 50D : 1/800 sec : f/5.6 : 400 mm : ISO 100

• Giant Salamanders Helped to Spawn

  A new program in Japan is helping giant salamanders get past dams built to control flooding so the rare amphibians can lay their eggs upstream. Video.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

• Melting Glaciers Nourishing Oceans With Ancient Carbon

  Alaska’s marine animals have an unexpected nutrient in their diets: ancient carbon from glacier melt, a new study says.