My Year of Parks series in Texas Parks & Wildlife Magazine continues with Garner State Park, home of the cool, beautiful Frio River. This year, the park turned 75; if you haven't been yet, read about what you're missing.
Dark skies, clear air and elevation make for incredible views of the night sky. Here are five places around the world to find them. Photo: Jaco Powell, http://kalaharisafari.com/index.php/tours.html
Researchers from Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, the California Academy of Sciences, and Moss Landing Marine Laboratories recently identified a creature caught on film thousands of feet deep in waters off the coast of California as Hydrolagus cf. trolli , also called a ghost shark. Scientists have identified 28 species of Hydrolagus but this is the first evidence that they live in the northwest Pacific Ocean. Learn more in this Men's Journal piece .
Alex Wild, curator of the entomology collection at The University of Texas, is on a mission: to photograph as many of the world's ten million or so species of insects as possible and make them publicly available. We're not talking snapshots, either - these are professional portraits. Wild is also training students to follow in his footsteps, and you can help support his efforts. Read more in The Alcalde . Eastern tiger swallowtail, Papilio glaucus, by Insectsunlocked.
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