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Dog Mountain in St. Johnsbury, Vermont is 150 acres devoted entirely to dogs.

"Dog Mountain is set on 150 acres on a private mountaintop spot in St. Johnsbury, Vermont. The grounds are always open to people and their dogs. Stephen Huneck and his wife, Gwen, bought the property in 1995. They turned the barn into studio space. After Stephen’s unique visionary experience, the Dog Chapel soon followed. The Dog Chapel opened its doors Memorial Day weekend of 2000. The unspoiled haven is covered with hiking trails and dog ponds. Wildflowers abound in the summer and snowshoeing is a favorite activity in the winter. Year after year, the Dog Chapel and the Stephen Huneck Gallery get more and more visitors from all over the world.

Leashes are optional on Dog Mountain. Dogs are free to run, play, swim, and (best of all) meet other dogs! Dogs are not just welcome here, they are cherished."

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Australian whose blood saved 2.4 million babies dies​

"One of the world's most prolific blood donors - whose plasma saved the lives of more than 2 million babies - has died. James Harrison died in his sleep at a nursing home in New South Wales, Australia on 17 February, his family said on Monday. He was 88.

Known in Australia as the man with the golden arm, Harrison's blood contained a rare antibody, Anti-D, which is used to make medication given to pregnant mothers whose blood is at risk of attacking their unborn babies. The Australian Red Cross Blood Service who paid tribute to Harrison, said he had pledged to become a donor after receiving transfusions while undergoing a major chest surgery when he was 14. He started donating his blood plasma when he was 18 and continued doing so every two weeks until he was 81."
 
There's no enough snow to run the Iditarod on its usual course. So a new course has been constructed, rather quickly, further north.

"Organizers first realized they were skating on thin ice last month when it became clear that one stretch of the course, some 200 miles from Anchorage, hadn’t seen any snowfall since late January. For the roughly 500 dogs pulling 33 mushers, the lack of permafrost poses a serious risk of injury that even the 100,000 pairs of booties used throughout the race couldn’t prevent. Instead of breezing across snow, they’d essentially be racing through mud and rocks. Back in 2014, teams had to drop out because their sleds weren’t made to handle the bare ground. There was only one thing to do: Head north."
 
Suspected cause of Long Island wildfires was a resident making s'mores

"A New York resident making s'mores in their backyard is suspected of accidentally igniting a series of wildfires over the weekend that swept through hundreds of acres of the Pine Barrens region of Long Island, authorities said Monday.

Suffolk County Police Commissioner Kevin Catalina said the "operating theory" is that a fire was started at about 9:30 a.m. ET Saturday when a resident used cardboard to start a fire to make s'mores, a confection that includes toasted marshmallows and chocolate sandwiched between graham crackers. "The individual making s'mores was unable to get the fire lit due to the winds, but they used cardboard to initially light that fire," Catalina said during a news conference on Monday. "The person subsequently discovers that the fire does ignite in the backyard area and all goes up in fire.""
"Catalina said the initial fire was extinguished by 10:30 a.m., but investigators believe embers blew about an eighth of a mile southeast of the s'mores fire and started a second blaze just before 1 p.m. in the Manorville community of Suffolk County."
 
fatness said:
Bald eagle live webcam in Big Bear Valley is kind of busy ---- 2 of the 3 eggs have hatched and the 3rd is cracking. (y)

Watching the huge adult eagle head tear off tiny bits of flesh and feed them to a baby that can't hold its head up yet is just amazing.
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The third egg hatched, the baby was eating for awhile with its siblings, a snowstorm apparently happened, and the 3rd baby is no longer seen in the nest. Only 50% of bald eagle eggs even hatch, and 70% of those that hatch live for 1 year. So this isn't surprising, just sad. Watching bald eagles flying is one of the wonderful parts of life for me; it's like time stands still.

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fatness said:
fatness said:
Bald eagle live webcam in Big Bear Valley is kind of busy ---- 2 of the 3 eggs have hatched and the 3rd is cracking. (y)

Watching the huge adult eagle head tear off tiny bits of flesh and feed them to a baby that can't hold its head up yet is just amazing.
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The third egg hatched, the baby was eating for awhile with its siblings, a snowstorm apparently happened, and the 3rd baby is no longer seen in the nest. Only 50% of bald eagle eggs even hatch, and 70% of those that hatch live for 1 year. So this isn't surprising, just sad. Watching bald eagles flying is one of the wonderful parts of life for me; it's like time stands still.

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Explanation of what happened
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Confirmed bad news about #3 😢
 
fatness said:
Suspected cause of Long Island wildfires was a resident making s'mores

"A New York resident making s'mores in their backyard is suspected of accidentally igniting a series of wildfires over the weekend that swept through hundreds of acres of the Pine Barrens region of Long Island, authorities said Monday.

Suffolk County Police Commissioner Kevin Catalina said the "operating theory" is that a fire was started at about 9:30 a.m. ET Saturday when a resident used cardboard to start a fire to make s'mores, a confection that includes toasted marshmallows and chocolate sandwiched between graham crackers. "The individual making s'mores was unable to get the fire lit due to the winds, but they used cardboard to initially light that fire," Catalina said during a news conference on Monday. "The person subsequently discovers that the fire does ignite in the backyard area and all goes up in fire.""
"Catalina said the initial fire was extinguished by 10:30 a.m., but investigators believe embers blew about an eighth of a mile southeast of the s'mores fire and started a second blaze just before 1 p.m. in the Manorville community of Suffolk County."
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S'mores at 9:30am? Jagermeister shooters with that?
 
" An underwater camera set up 55 years ago to try and photograph the Loch Ness Monster has been found by accident by a robot submarine. The ocean-going yellow sub - called Boaty McBoatface - was being put through trials when its propeller snagged the mooring for the 1970s camera system. It is believed it was lowered 180m (591ft) below the loch's surface by the Loch Ness Investigation Bureau, a group set up in the 1960s to uncover the existence of Nessie in the waters.

No footage of Nessie has been found on the camera, but one of the submarine's engineers was able to develop a few images of the loch's murky waters."

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Camera set up to catch Loch Ness Monster unearthed

No sign of the famous monster was found on the camera that had been in Loch Ness for 55 years.
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Wild New Study Suggests Buttholes Once Had a Very Different Purpose

If the genes of a tiny, bumless invertebrate are anything to go by, our anuses might be repurposed sperm chutes. A new study suggests instead of releasing waste, the first anal orifice was an exit hatch for male sex cells which was given a new task.
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"Once a hole is there, you can use it for other things," zoologist Andreas Hejnol told Michael Le Page at New Scientist.
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I really don't want to think about this one too much.
 
Around March 15 an underwater photographer found an injured 322-pound loggerhead turtle off Islamorada in the Florida Keys. It was taken to a Turtle Hospital in Marathon suffering from partial loss of a flipper and severe head wounds.

It got all healed and was released March 25. (y)

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Massive sea turtle back where it belongs after Florida photographer and rescue group step up

Lenny, a 322-pound loggerhead turtle, was found off the Florida Keys struggling to swim and with visible wounds.
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The Return of the Dire Wolf

The dire wolf once roamed an American range that extended as far south as Venezuela and as far north as Canada, but not a single one has been seen in over 10,000 years, when the species went extinct. Plenty of dire wolf remains have been discovered across the Americas, however, and that presented an opportunity for a company named Colossal Biosciences.
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Relying on deft genetic engineering and ancient, preserved DNA, Colossal scientists deciphered the dire wolf genome, rewrote the genetic code of the common gray wolf to match it, and, using domestic dogs as surrogate mothers, brought Romulus, Remus, and their sister, 2-month-old Khaleesi, into the world during three separate births last fall and this winter—effectively for the first time de-extincting a line of beasts whose live gene pool long ago vanished. TIME met the males (Khaleesi was not present due to her young age) at a fenced field in a U.S. wildlife facility in March, on the condition that their location remain a secret to protect the animals from prying eyes.
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McBokonon said:
The Return of the Dire Wolf

The dire wolf once roamed an American range that extended as far south as Venezuela and as far north as Canada, but not a single one has been seen in over 10,000 years, when the species went extinct. Plenty of dire wolf remains have been discovered across the Americas, however, and that presented an opportunity for a company named Colossal Biosciences.
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Relying on deft genetic engineering and ancient, preserved DNA, Colossal scientists deciphered the dire wolf genome, rewrote the genetic code of the common gray wolf to match it, and, using domestic dogs as surrogate mothers, brought Romulus, Remus, and their sister, 2-month-old Khaleesi, into the world during three separate births last fall and this winter—effectively for the first time de-extincting a line of beasts whose live gene pool long ago vanished. TIME met the males (Khaleesi was not present due to her young age) at a fenced field in a U.S. wildlife facility in March, on the condition that their location remain a secret to protect the animals from prying eyes.
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Life finds a way…
 
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