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State news agency says Bashar al-Assad to make third speech since protests began, as army seeks to stop refugee exodus.

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[Big Gay Al]

The Pygmy planigale (Planigale maculate) is a small marsupial which can be found in parts of Australia, as well as the islands of Groote Eylandt and Great Keppel. This creature's appearance resembles a cross between a mouse and a shrew.

When looking at this critter, it appears small, measuring 180 millimeters (18 centimeters) in length. The males of this species weigh 15 grams (0.53 ounces) and the females average around 11 grams (0.39 ounces). The resemblance is remarkably similar to that of the house mouse, with the exception of their pointy head and large round ears.

This small creature, whose scientific name translates as "spotted flat-weasel", is covered in coat of reddish or grey fur. Their underside is lighter in color and appears to be a mix between light grey and yellow. Their fur extends around the entire body, stopping at the tail which is almost completely naked. Their marsupial pouch is located on the bellies of the females opening towards the back. Females give birth to between five and eleven young at a time, who crawl into the pouch to suckle, and then emerge twenty-eight days later. These young go out on their own at seventy days old.

The pygmy planigale can be found in a variety of locations including rainforests, heathland, grasslands, forests, and marshlands. Generally, they prefer to live near water in places that have thick cover under which they can hide from their predators. Additionally, community nests built by the pygmy planigale have been found in the wild.

This nocturnal marsupial is a carnivore whose diet mainly consists of insects and arthropods. They are known to bite the bellies of insects in order to kill their prey where they are most vulnerable. This little creature has also been known to take down prey larger than itself, including small birds and lizards. The pygmy planigale needs to keep a lookout for their predators which include foxes, cats, and cane toads.

Although the pygmy planigale is not on the endangered species list, their numbers are not precisely known. Some members of the scientific community believe that they are being threatened as their natural habitat is being developed and destroyed.

Steps can be taken to ensure the pygmy planigale continues to thrive in Australia. Reduction in burning of forests and control of cattle's access to grazing land near the pygmy planigale's territory may help this species thrive.


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[Carl Culture]

About Angelina:

Family life, relationships, motherhood and emotions. These are the central topics I am dealing with in my current personal work. Photography allows me to go beyond observation, it makes me look twice, trying to capture the special something that makes the difference. In the end it’s all about truth and simplicity. Since I am working on a long term project, portraying my own family, photography has become part of my everyday life.

My projects have been published and exhibited in Germany and Italy. In the past years I have been internationally awarded with several IPA honorable mentions, mentions at Fotoleggendo (Rome) and Orvieto Festival, and TAU creative quality price.








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[NASA]

Last Roll Out of a NASA Space Shuttle




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[Kenan Thompson]

Kenneth Mathis is the kind of man who values stability. More than three decades ago, when he was 19, Mathis was hired by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, a government position that seemed to confer assurance of middle class comforts. As an African...(read more)

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[Percy The Perv]

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[NASA]

The Cassini spacecraft observes three of Saturn's moons set against the darkened night side of the planet.

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[NASA]

This image was suggested by Dennis Mitchell's seventh grade Mars student team at Evergreen Middle School in Cottonwood, California as part of the HiRISE Quest Student Imaging Challenge. The students discovered this dark pit feature in a THEMIS image and submitted a HiRISE image suggestion to see a close-up of this feature and determine whether it might be a possible skylight cave. This image is located on the southeastern flank of Pavonis Mons, a large volcano located in the Tharsis Region of Mars. The dark, circular pit feature roughly in the middle of the image is about 180 meters at its widest diameter. The pit appears to be surrounded by small sand dunes. Although the western half of the pit is in shadow, the large dynamic range of the HiRISE camera allows one to see in the shadows. The interior of the pit consists of sediment-covered boulders that range in size from approximately 5 meters (approximately 16 ft) to less than 1 meter (approximately 3 feet) in diameter. The interior region of the pit appears to slope towards the northwest. Such pits may form from collapse of a surface "roof" below which lava may long ago have flowed, or as a result of removal of subsurface material due to erosion or extension. Written by: Evergreen Middle School and Ginny Gulick

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[NASA]

In this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 7479 — created from observations at visible and near-infrared wavelengths — the tightly wound arms of the spiral galaxy create an inverted ‘S’, as they spin in an anticlockwise direction. However, at radio wavelengths, this galaxy, sometimes nicknamed the Propeller Galaxy, spins the other way, with a jet of radiation that bends in the opposite direction to the stars and dust in the arms of the galaxy. Astronomers think that the radio jet in NGC 7479 was put into its bizarre backwards spin following a merger with another galaxy. Star formation is reignited by galactic collisions, and indeed NGC 7479 is undergoing starburst activity, with many bright, young stars visible in the spiral arms and disc. The three brightest stars in this image, however, are foreground stars — caught on camera because they lie between the galaxy and Hubble. This striking galaxy is easily visible in moderate telescopes as an elongated fuzzy patch of light. The spiral arms can be seen with more difficulty in larger telescopes under dark conditions. This picture was created from images taken with the Wide Field Channel of Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys. Images through a yellow filter (F555W, colored blue) were combined with images taken in the near-infrared (F814W, colored red). The total exposure times were 520 s per filter and the field of view is 2.7 arcminutes across.

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