Jean Craighead George, Newbery award-winning children's author, dies at 92

Source: Miami Herald

By VALERIE J. NELSON After children's author Jean Craighead George revealed that she wanted to write a book about a girl who talks with wolves, legendary book editor Ursula Nordstrom reportedly asked one question - will it be accurate? - ...
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Source: The Humane Economy

what online pet shop can i buy a Tarantula from in australia? i wanted to know what online pet shop has Australian tarantulas and ships them in Australia.i love T’s but i just can’t seem to find some one online that will ship in australia. i have looked ...
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Tarantula in the garden

Source: Digging

Look at this: a tarantula in my garden! I’ve never seen one here before, and this hairy fellow had made it all the way up from the lower garden (where I assume he came in from the greenbelt) to the top of th ...
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This Week's Web Picks: arachnophilia; the all-seeing camera; voices of autism; PBS: life without bling

Source: MLive.com

Each web is highly distinctive of a species. The stages of web development are color-coded for each animation, each of which is linkable only from the website (not from mine). Each one's beauty, though, stands by itself. A lin ...
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California tarantula sighted near Glen Park

Source: Glen Park Neighborhood Association

Californian Tarantula, taken on Mt. Davidson. Photo by Dylan Hayes. Dylan Hayes, Recreation and Park’s Natural Areas Manager, parked his service truck atop Mt. Davidson a few days ago, lifted a mattock and a pair work gloves from the flatbed and walked t ...
Full article at: Glen Park Neighborhood Association  More like this  1 day ago, 9:23pm CDT

The 10 Most Painful Insect Stings on the Planet

Source: LewRockwell.com

Most of us will have felt the pain of a bee sting. Luckily most of us will have avoided the dreaded pain of a tarantula hawk or a fire ant. Justin Schmidt felt all three of these and 147 other horrible, burning sensations after a dedicated ...
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Steve Backshall: The wild man from Surrey

Source: Guardian Unlimited

For a man who has smelled the breath of the planet's deadliest predators and lived to tell the tale, Steve Backshall cuts a remarkably disarming figure. Anyone familiar with CBBC's resident adventurer and naturalist through his show Dead ...
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Sneezing monkey, devil's worm make ASU new species list

Source: KPHO Phoenix

A sneezing monkey, a parasitic wasp and a SpongeBob SquarePants mushroom are among the picks making the the Top 10 new species list, Arizona State University said. This is the fifth year for the Top 10 new species list, which wa ...
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Austin's Bob Schneider set to return to Brewster's stage

Source: Corpus Christi Caller-Times

CORPUS CHRISTI — Singer and songwriter Bob Schneider doesn't need a plan for lyrical inspiration. "Usually, when I sit down to write, I have no idea what will happen," Schneider revealed. "I hardly ever wait for inspirati ...
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