It's Morse Code Day!

 

Doggies!

 

Everything You Wanted to Know about Hibernation

Know your Ladybirds

Found a Baby Bird? By the wonderful Bird and Moon Comics

Os bicos das aves

Average Life Spans of Animals / Longevidade Média dos Animais

50 beloved characters give life advice

Doggies! From Portugal, Africa, Australia

The Art of Lili Chin

On Cloud Nine :)

Earth History in 24 Hours

Save the Trees

T-Rex vs Megalodon - size comparison

The Nature Connection Pyramid

The Dinosaur Pet Guide, by John Conway

What's the time... In Australia?

And two delicious comments on the Cheezburger post:

"To make it even more complicated, Broken Hill, out in far western NSW (the reddish one) runs half an hour after the rest of the state because the town runs off South Australia (purple) time. And then there's a town basically built right on the NSW/Queensland (blue) border which has two time zones during DST."

"Time Zones are the least of our problems down under..."

Ah, to Hibernate...

Geological Time

A very good Dinosaur Family Tree Explainer

So spake Vondell:

made rebloggable because people wanted it, this is a very very simple thing that i used to talk about why birds are dinosaurs and what that means and where they fit into the family tree, why “reptile" is a weird arbitrary term that excludes birds only because it was made up before we knew birds were dinosaurs and we’re stubborn, why “sauropsid" is a better term that isn’t as weird and arbitrary, and where lizards and other modern reptile descendants fit into the family

there’s a lot of very interesting detail to go into that i did not go into, this is very very simplistic, as evidenced by the fact that i used a good amount of land before time nomenclature. i grouped some different animal groups together for the sake of clarity that are not usually represented as a single group (sauropods & ornithischians are usually distinct, but the thing i wanted to get across was “non-theropod dinosaurs", turtles belong to a slightly more distant-past fork than lizards and snakes, there are many more non-dinosaur archosaurs than pterosaurs and plesiosaurs and crocodilians, etc)

if youre interested in any of that stuff and you have a little while to spend on wikipedia, pretty much any term is a goldmine of information and also specifically articles like “bird evolution" or “evolution of reptiles"