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Great hand forged snake window guards on a home in California

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Excerpt from this story from the Associated Press (AP):

More than 80 years ago, a beautiful butterfly called Xerces Blue that once fluttered among San Francisco’s coastal dunes went extinct as stately homes, museums and parks ate up its habitat, marking the first butterfly species in the United States to disappear due to human development.

But thanks to years of research and modern technology a close relative of the shimmery iridescent butterfly species has been reintroduced to the dunes in Presidio National Park in San Francisco. Dozens of Silvery Blue butterflies — the closest living relatives of the Xerces Blue — were released in the restored habitat last week, officials said Monday.

Scientists with San Francisco’s California Academy of Sciences utilized the Academy’s genetic sequencing capabilities and analyzed Xerces Blue specimens in their vast collection to confirm a group of Silvery Blues in Monterey County, about 100 miles (160 kilometers) south of San Francisco, could successfully fill the ecological gap left by the Xerces Blue.

“This isn’t a Jurassic Park-style de-extinction project, but it will have a major impact,” said Durrell Kapan, a senior research fellow and the lead Academy researcher on the project. “The Silvery Blue will act as an ecological ‘stand-in’ for the Xerces Blue, performing the same ecosystem functions as both a pollinator and a critical member of the food web.”

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Silver-washed fritillary, Japanese Map Butterfly

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Lilly Goument 2023 Makeup Artist Wilma Stigson Hair Stylist Carolyn Photographer Chloe Bowman Newest Cool

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"The Kiss", a 12,000-year-old rock painting at Pedra Furada in Brazil

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fka twigs x met gala 2024

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They are taking the passion out of everything and we allow it by embedding our personhood into a screen

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Yohji Yamamoto Pour Homme AW1995 Floral Turtleneck

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A Truly Good Life, 2024, 柯怡如

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Clementine Hunter, Melrose Quilt, ca. 1960, fabric, 73 x 60 in. (185.4x 152.4 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Barbara Coffey Quilt Endowment, 2014.5

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Have You Ever Been to Palestine? - Saj Issa , 2023.

American ,Palestinian , b. 1994 -

Oil on canvas paper, 16 x 20 in.

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