A wildlife rescue in San Francisco is trying to figure out how a marmot, a mountain-dwelling rodent about the size of a house cat, ended up sick in a city backyard, and the leading theory involves antifreeze and a long car ride. Yggdrasil Urban Wildlife Rescue recovered the animal earlier this week from a backyard […] The post A marmot turned up in a San Francisco backyard after apparently drinking radiator fluid appeared first on American Almanac .
A wildlife rescue in San Francisco is trying to figure out how a marmot, a mountain-dwelling rodent about the size of a house cat, ended up sick in a city backyard, and the leading theory involves antifreeze and a long car ride. Yggdrasil Urban Wildlife Rescue recovered the animal earlier this week from a backyard in the Mission District, one of San Francisco's oldest neighborhoods. Marmots live at high elevations in the Sierra Nevada, not in urban backyards. The rescue's founder, Lila Travis, told KQED the animal had likely crawled under a car somewhere in the mountains and hitched an involuntary ride to the city. How it got there, and where exactly it came from, remains an open question. Travis and her team are now asking the public…Open
A scientist working to save a threatened frog species stumbled across a fossilized Pacific mastodon molar in a San Mateo County creek bed, a find experts are calling the most complete specimen of its kind from the region. Brigid Lynch, a geomorphologist at the consulting firm Balance Hydrologics, was surveying a wooded creek inside a […] The post Geomorphologist finds remarkably preserved mastodon tooth in San Francisco Bay Area creek appeared first on American Almanac .
A scientist working to save a threatened frog species stumbled across a fossilized Pacific mastodon molar in a San Mateo County creek bed, a find experts are calling the most complete specimen of its kind from the region. Brigid Lynch, a geomorphologist at the consulting firm Balance Hydrologics, was surveying a wooded creek inside a Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District preserve in the Santa Cruz Mountains earlier this year when she spotted the nine-inch tooth sitting in plain sight. She was there for a habitat restoration project aimed at protecting the California red-legged frog, a threatened species. Instead, she found the remains of an animal that vanished from North America between 10,000 and 12,000 years ago. Lynch told…Open
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