Over the past few days, I’ve been thinking about serendipity and happenstance and how often those things, intrinsically and forever linked within the construct of time, help us appreciate and cherish more dearly things we experience. The idea of coincidence often resides at the heart of ...
Little Bay de Noc: Walleye fishing throughout the bay was good. Anglers reported catching fishing out of Kipling, “black bottom”, the mouth of the Escanaba River, south of Aronson Island, and areas from the Ford River to No See-um Creek. A lot of anglers were casting artificial snap jig ...
MARQUETTE — Mined lands can have what author Pete Kero called a “full second life.” That’s a major message of his new book, published by the Minnesota Historical Society Press. Kero, a Negaunee native and environmental engineer based in Hibbing, Minnesota with Barr Engineering Co., ...
“Bird on the horizon, sitting on a fence. He’s singing his song for me at his own expense,” – Bob Dylan A year or so ago, I was walking down our driveway to the mailbox when I heard a male house wren singing from a thick grove of trees across the county road. It’s one of those ...
“Pick up a flat rock, skip it across Green River,” – John Fogerty It wasn’t one of the “dog days” of summer, it was one of those “dog is under the porch because it’s too darned hot to be anywhere else” days. I was sitting at a desolate junction. It was a place where the railroad tracks met the dust of a crossing dirt backway. The track stretched out for at least a couple miles in either direction, straight as a yardstick. On the far side of the tracks from where I was, an even dustier off-road vehicle trail sat parallel to the railroad tracks. For some reason ...
NEW YORK (AP) — There could be a new contender for heaviest animal to ever live. While today’s blue whale has long held the title, scientists have dug up fossils from an ancient giant that could tip the scales. Researchers described the species — named Perucetus colossus, or “the colossal whale from Peru” — in the journal Nature on Wednesday. Each vertebra weighs over 220 pounds and its ribs measure nearly 5 feet long. “It’s just exciting to see such a giant animal that’s so different from anything we know,” said Hans Thewissen, a paleontologist at Northeast Ohio ...
