Golden retriever/Australian shepherd crosses

(Source for image) The mother is the blue merle Aussie. I’ve seen this cross before, only the father was a cryptic merle black Aussie and the mother a golden retriever. The puppies were merled on a red gold background. (Like this redbone/Aussie.)

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Nēnē

My cousin,  Catie Westfall, took this photo of a nēnē on Hawaii’s Big Island: The nēnē (Branta sandvicensis) is actually an offshoot of the Canada goose (Branta canadensis) that wound up colonization the Hawaiian Islands. The nēnē is the last surviving descendant of this colonization by Canada geese 500,000 years ago.  The nēnē-nui or wood-walking goose and the [...]

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51 million year old red wolf skull

Well, I guess all that genetic evidence was wrong. Red wolves really are an ancient species after all! And not only does it destroy all that genetic evidence that clearly shows the red wolf to be a coyote with some wolf ancestry, it also destroys evolution. Never mind that any paleontologist will tell you that [...]

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Labrador retriever wolfdogs

The dog on the right is a cross between a low content wolf dog and a Labrador. The dog on the left is his son, produced through mating with a black Labrador mix. Here is the low content wolfdog with his grandson and “daughter-in-law.” My guess is the majority of the litter were black, but [...]

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Manukura the white kiwi

A white kiwi has been hatched in New Zealand. From Stuff: A rare white kiwi chick has been born – the first to be hatched in captivity. The chick, named Manukura, is not an albino but the rare offspring of some North Island brown kiwi from Little Barrier Island. He was born at the Pukaha [...]

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Moth-eaten egg thief

Arctic foxes look very strange when they start to shed out.  

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Old Yeller versus the mother black bear

Source. If you look closely, you’ll notice that these black bears are not American black bears. They are Asiatic black bears that have had their manes trimmed back. Of they are hybrids between Asiatic and American black bears. Asiatic black bears were more commonly used in circuses and Hollywood because they were more docile and [...]

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Most interesting quote of the day

In this article about Ryan Bokyo collecting DNA samples from village dogs throughout the world,  I found this amazing quote: “It was also a good thing this collaborator was used to dealing with large mammals since the shepherds’ dogs near the [Lebanese] border with Syria were very large and not used to handling,” he adds. [...]

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Golden retriever hog dog

Looks like a catch dog to me.

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Foxy love

Apparently a lot of this happened around here last winter, because now everyone seems to be seeing lots of vixens with kits.

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