If You Meet a Mountain Lion
If You Meet a Mountain Lion "It's extremely rare that a mountain lion is ever going to look at a person as prey," Sweanor said. "We do not have much to fear." That said, it's best not to be careless....
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It's an oddity of consumer culture that nature is appropriated with little thought of the symbols being used. If Apple had named its latest operating system update after, say, the English longbow, the...
View ArticleAre Mountain Lions Coming Back?
Are Mountain Lions Coming Back? Until a few centuries ago, mountain lions ranged across the North American continent. Hunting by settlers exterminated many populations, but sightings in the central and...
View ArticleOut of South America
Out of South America Genetic analysis shows that mountain lions originated in South America about 6.5 million years ago, when the species shared a last common ancestor with African cheetahs and...
View ArticleThe Secret Life of Mountain Lions
The Secret Life of Mountain Lions Reclusive, largely nocturnal and possessing a hunter's stealth, mountain lions are difficult for researchers to study without technological assistance. Radio collars...
View ArticleLiving With Mountain Lions
Living With Mountain Lions In light of their fearsome reputation and symbolic role in America's national psyche, it's surprising to learn just how infrequently mountain lions attack people. Just 117...
View ArticleThe Solitary Myth
The Solitary Myth That mountain lions are loners is an article of faith -- a quick Googling returns "a solitary animal," "solitary and stealthy," "shy, elusive and solitary" -- but isn't necessarily...
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Lee County, FL
More From Landsat: 40 Years of Massive City Growth as Seen From Space Landsat’s Most Historically Significant Images Earth as Art: 5 Most Popular Landsat Satellite Images The Landsat mission has been...
View ArticleNorth Central Colorado
North Central Colorado Submitted by: Justin Hirsch U.S. forests are dynamic ecosystems that are entwined with human activity. In addition to the outright conversion of forests to other land covers and...
View ArticleNebraska Sand Hills
Nebraska Sand Hills Submitted by: Mary Ann Vinton The Nebraska Sandhills region is one of the largest areas of grass-stabilized sand dunes in the world. The Sandhills have remained primarily grassland...
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Trinity County, California Submitted by: Mary Ann Vinton In 1972, Roger Eckart and his siblings bought a grandfathered-in piece of private land within Trinity National Forest in northern California,...
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El Gordo This picture of the galaxy cluster ACT-CL J0102−4915 combines images taken with ESO’s Very Large Telescope with images from the SOAR Telescope and X-ray observations from NASA’s Chandra X-ray...
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Venus Revealed This global view of the surface of Venus is centered at 180 degrees east longitude. Magellan synthetic aperture radar mosaics from the first cycle of Magellan mapping are mapped onto a...
View ArticleMt. Sharp
The dark patches at the top of this frame show the southeastern edge of Mt. Sharp; the floor of Gale Crater occupies the remainder of the image. Small hills dotted with rocks and debris populate Mt....
View Articleintriguing Sedimentary Layers
Well-defined layers of sedimentary rocks are seen in this image -- the stuff of a Mars geologist's dreams. The mechanism of formation is unknown, but the units could correspond to lake, river, or...
View ArticleRare Inverted River Channel
Geologists believe that the highest layers in this image (near the bottom of the scene) are an exotic type of geological phenomenon known as an inverted river channel. When sedimentary layers are bound...
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