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wildlife, while there is some

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

So it turns out that Manta Rays can leap right out of the water into the air. Video here courtesy of twitter user @Protect_Wildlife.

I've been watching these Youtube videos in a series called PBS Eons with the kids. It's truly amazing what they now know that they didn't know when I did two credits in Geology 25 years ago. For instance that there were not one but several water-world eras in Earth's history, two ice-ball eras, and that on two occasions significant animal populations rafted from Africa to South America. It's also interesting what we don't know–for instance: how the great cats evolved, or where.