The black-footed ferret has been coming back from the brink of extinction thanks to the work of US government scientists. They just got fired. www.vox.com/down-to-eart...

Snuck in a bit of black lighting in Rio Grande City, Texas last night and had a couple of nice finds. Found a tiny colony of Diplocentrus diablo and a few Maaykuyak waueri. It was also a bit surprising not to see a single Centruroides vittatus, Texas's most abundant scorpion.

World breaches 1.5C global warming target for first time on.ft.com/4gNG2DX

Found a green sea turtle today that was out of the water, cold shocked near Corpus Christi, Texas. We were able to get sea life rescue to come out and take it to a warming facility. We later heard that it was doing well and fully revived. That felt good.

I continue to be dumbfounded by much of society’s inability to grasp the impact the global climate change. The evidence reveals itself in so many clear and often tragic ways.

www.noaa.gov/noaa-wildfir...

A bit of #avgeek - ery the past couple of days here in Tucson, Arizona. Yesterday, a P-8A Poseidon spent most of the afternoon doing circuits around town at 16000 feet. Today I got my best view of the newish EA-37B Compass Call II, which are based out of Davis-Monthan AFB. Flightradar24 maps.

A poignant video with fabulous animation documenting the rapid decline of amphibians globally.

vimeo.com/1036802517

Beaked whales are some of the least well known marine mammals. Scientists are about to learn more about the Spade-toothed Whale.

apnews.com/article/rare... This whale species is so rare it's never been seen alive. A dissection may decode its mysteries

I'm very excited to share a new paper that used the largest wolverine genetic dataset ever assembled in North America to explore genetic connectivity of wolverines across western NA. Special congrats to lead authors C. Day, E. Landguth, and M. Sawaya
#wolverine #DNA

www.nature.com/articles/s41....

Just published study on the effects of border walls on wildlife movement between Arizona and Sonora. www.frontiersin.org/journals/eco...

Back from spending much of October in Australia. So many wonderful and unique animals found there. A few of my highlights this year included a fabulous Numbat encounter, a tiny Western Pygmy Possum, a spectacular Perentie, and my first ever Thorny Devil!

Celebrated my 60th birthday in Australia this past week. The highlight of the day was this encounter with a couple of Honey Possums, Tarsipes rostratus at Cheynes Beach in Western Australia.