Of eiders and islands
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Dispatches from two weeks on a seabird nesting island off the coast of Maine.
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Chipmunk distraction
/Well I'm back from camping on a seabird nesting island, but I don't have my sketches organized yet. This chipmunk will keep you company while you're waiting. (He lives under my house.)
Pine Point, Maine
Fox sighting
/Saw a fox this morning on the edge of the mudflats.
Machiasport, Maine
Yipes, stripes
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This week's breaking news is that we (still) don't know what zebra stripes are for! A new study says, rather unshockingly, that they probably aren't much use as camouflage.
Read MoreRelative size of giraffes
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Giraffes have a relative called Sivatherium giganteum, which happens to be extinct. It wasn't as tall but apparently it was massive. Wanting to know just how massive, researchers did a 3D skeletal reconstruction and calculated an estimate of its mass.
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