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Undulatus Asperatus
Ominous Clouds Over Ohio
A cloud formation, proposed in 2009 as a separate cloud classification by the founder of the Cloud Appreciation Society. It could be the first cloud formation added since cirrus intortus in 1951 to the International Cloud Atlas of the World Meteorological Organization. The name translates approximately as roughened or agitated waves.
Image Credit: Reddit
New type of clouds discovered
Alligators Breathe Like Birds, Study Find
University of Utah scientists discovered that air flows in one direction as it loops through the lungs of alligators, just as it does in birds. The study suggests this breathing method may have helped the dinosaurs’ ancestors dominate Earth after the planet’s worst mass extinction 251 million years ago.
Crazy! New breathing technique?
The next generation of scientists
Today more 25 year old women hold secondary degrees than men of the same age.
Aurora Display Leaves Skywatchers Spellbound
A dazzling aurora light show amazed skywatchers across North America, from Canada to Arkansas, and other northern regions Monday night (Oct. 24), painting the sky with striking green and even rare red hues.
Credit: Shawn Malone
Beautiful!
Jeremie Martino - A Moment of Detente in the Life of a Painter (2010)
Really nice energy motion and color