Spinifex Pigeon photographed in Watarrka National Park in Australia's Northern Territory.
credit: John Harrison

#birdsofmastodon #Spinifex #pigeon
#Watarrka

Il volo del piccione che innalza la sua cresta contro gli aridi recessi del continente australe

https://www.jacoporanieri.com/blog/?p=37873

#uccelli #animali #creature #tradizione #cultura #folklore #aborigeni #australia #meridione #queensland #pilbara #ecologia #conservazione #biologia #riproduzione #evoluzione #adattamenti #clima #aridità #spinifex #nidi

E se davvero le termiti fossero il motore dietro i cerchi delle fate australiani?

https://www.jacoporanieri.com/blog/?p=37737

#luoghi #dal mondo #termiti #animali #piante #spinifex #entroterra #territorio #idrologia #radure #ambienti #paesaggio #territori #teorie #creature #sottosuolo #studi #scienza #deserti #aridità #cerchi

Il misterioso parrocchetto che si aggira camminando tra i roveti delle notti australiane

https://www.jacoporanieri.com/blog/?p=37715

#animali #uccelli #pappagalli #notte #notturni #creature #australia #raro #rischio d'estinzione #conservazione #specie #tassonomia #scienza #ricerca #avvistamenti #teorie #natura #habitat #creature #australia #entroterra #erba #spinifex #evoluzione

#Grass-roots ‘building block’ produces #sustainable #materials

"The grass produces a #resin which can form a very strong bond when used as glue and which, once melted and solidified again, forms a #polymer that resembles #Bakelite, Rowan says.
Under a microscope, strands of #spinifex reveal stretchy #cellulose #fibres just a few nanometres thick but thousands of nanometres long, and with a tensile strength eight times greater than #steel."

https://www.nature.com/articles/d42473-022-00428-z

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The jump up on the drive into Lark Quarry Dinosaur Trackways.
This is part of the Queensland Dinosaur trail.
The long drives between sites is worth it, for the dinosaur fossils as well as the the outback plants and animals.
This is true outback Australia with the red soil and spinifex grass.

https://www.dinosaurtrackways.com.au

#OutBack #Queensland #QLD #Dinosaur #Palaeontology #Australia #Fossils #Spinifex