Hiking Ancient Lakes part 6. Small video: turn the sound up. It's frog breeding season in the still water of the coulee lakes, and they're going crazy. Some spring birds there too. 6/8
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Hiking Ancient Lakes part 5. Here's some closeups of the main rock attraction here: columnar basalt, a result of ancient lava flows (way more ancient than the lakes). I keep wondering where all this lava came from-- the nearest existant volcano is probably Mt Rainier, over 130km away. 5/8
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Hiking Ancient Lakes part 4. This is a state park. Strangely, the trails aren't very well marked and in order to see all the good parts you have to drive round the outside to a couple different trailheads. But on a weekday in March, it's blissfully quiet and empty. I saw only maybe 6 people all day. 4/8 #PNW #Washington #hiking #geology #iceage #getoutside #outdoors
Hiking Ancient Lakes part 3. This place is called "Ancient Lakes" and it's right by "The Gorge" amphitheater (WA people will know this place for its outdoor concerts). Ironically this system of coulees (canyon like flood channels) was formed by post-Ice Age glacial runoff, which in geological time isn't ancient at all-- it's like the day before yesterday. 3/8 #PNW #Washington #hiking #geology #iceage #getoutside #outdoors
Hiking Ancient Lakes part 2. The Columbia Gorge (which has the Columbia River running through it) is kind of unimaginably huge. The snow capped ridges in the distance are like 50km away and the river itself is beyond the nearer cliffs and lakes, but before the snowy ridges, hidden in a literal gorge some 500(?) meters below any of the ground you see here. 2/8
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First hiking thread of 2025. This is the time of year that those of us in the Puget Sound region get tired of the rain, and after a very waterlogged weekend, I struck out East, across the Cascades, to the Columbia Gorge. 1/8
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25,000-year-old mammoth bone site discovered in Lower Austria https://www.byteseu.com/857205/ #Austria #IceAge #mammoth
Now, that's a #mammoth discovery! Literally.
#IceAge hunters' large mammal processing site in Lower #Austria, got it all: dismembered bones, tusk fragments - and the stone tool kits which did it.
https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/oeai/media/news-archive/news-detail/langmannersdorf-en
American 'cheetah'. Fast, but was it the fastest? #IceAge #paleontology #Cats #MastoCats #CatsOfMastodon #caturday #wildlife #Nature #ecology #biodiversity #environment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRE34xquDBQ
Giant Jaguars of the Ice Age - the Jaguars of the North American Pleistocene #IceAge #paleontology #Cats #MastoCats #CatsOfMastodon #caturday #wildlife #Nature #ecology #biodiversity #environment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6YhD-cRuf8
Nové přírodopisné a paleo dokumenty z ledna a února 2025! Od letošního Winterwatch po Dobu ledovou: Apokalypsu, od Pozoruhodného světa s Jeffem Corwinem po Dinosauří ptáky, mám tu pro vás seznam všech!
#nature #documentary #news #wildlife #paleontology #documentaryfilm #tv #film #jeffcorwin #dinosaurs #iceage #stevebackshall #michaelastrachan #bigcats #lions #leopard #cheetah #conservation
https://blogorgonopsid.blogspot.com/2025/02/dokumentarni-novinky-z-ledna-unora-2025.html