#flamingos

psych@diasp.org

OK Something completely different than the spew across US media at the mo..
Seems that.... to quote one Sinatra, "that's life"
And now, from another Sinatra, daughter Nancy, a 'tweet' not about politics or music or entertainment (the norm)

On Flamingos ...

What caught my attention is the vivid video... but reading the text, it's true! Why the flamingo is pink.... (spoiler: shrimp!)

#flamingos #flamingo #birds #nature

psychmesu@diaspora.glasswings.com

https://scholar.social/@animalculum/112213230751335215 animalculum@scholar.social - A frozen chunk of genome rewrites our understanding of bird #evolution
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-frozen-chunk-genome-rewrites-bird.html

A region of suppressed recombination misleads neoavian #phylogenomics https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2319506121

"This section, just 2% of the bird #genome, convinced #scientists that most #birds could be grouped into two major categories, with #flamingos and #doves as evolutionary cousins. The more accurate family tree identifies four main groups and identifies flamingos and doves as more distantly related."

faab64@diasp.org

The draughts conditions in Iran reaching a catastrophic levels.

This image was released by #NASA taken at the location where it used to be #lake #Urmieh, between eastern and western Azerbaijan provinces in north western Iran.

The lake used to be the home of Asian #flamingos and many other birds who are now all gone. The lake was also home to 100a of unique species of fish and other marine lives not found anywhere else in the world.

The water level of #CaspianSea, the largest lake in the world is now 9m bellow it's lowest level recorded in history and causing trouble for fishermen and people who's life depends on the well being of that sea, not only in #Iran, but also in #Azerbaijan Republic, #Turkmenistan and even Russia.

#WeDontHaveTime #Politics #ClimateChange #ClimateCatastrophe #ClimateEmergency #TomorrowIsTooLate #GlobalWarming #Environment #Draught #Asia #Catastrophe #GlobanBoiling