PALEO & GEO TOPICS: Comments by R. L. Squires

Earlier this year, I posted a blog on aquatic birds sighted north of Los Angeles (Castaic Lake and Santa Clarita areas, which are only six m...

YIKES, LIZARDS IN MY YARD! In recent months, I have published numerous blog posts concerning a diverse assortment of animals and plants th...

  VINTAGE ELECTRIC POLE HEMIGRAY INSULATORS These thick-glass insulators were used for telegraph and telephone utility lines in the United ...

The name “koi” is an informal name for colored variants of domesticated carp fish kept for ornamental purposes. Typically these fish, which ...

WHAT’S OUR REACH? If you started to travel, via a spaceship moving at 25,000 miles per hour, to Pluto when you were 25-years old, it would ...

C ORUNDUM: “IT’S ALL ABOUT THE COLOR” The mineral corundum consists of crystalline aluminum oxide. Its hardness is 9, which is next to diam...

The word “ cacti” is the plural form of cactus. All cacti are spiny succulents. They are fleshy and store water. Importantly, they also have...