Walking along the Azama river at this time of year, one can see patches of these attractive flowers. The red spider lily (higanbana or manjushage) is possibly THE seasonal flower. Thousands of peo…| Wild in Japan
Fossils found in Hokkaido more than a decade ago have recently been identified as belonging to a new right whale species. The fossil bones were first discovered by a citizen of Sapporo along the Toyohira River in the capital of the northernmost Japan prefecture in October 2008, leading to a Sapporo Museum Activity Center team's years of work to unearth a nearly complete skeleton. "Scrutiny soon revealed the skeleton belonged to a new type of whale," according to a research article published i...| 時事通信ニュース
A new member of a large and archaic balaenid from the Late Miocene of Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan partly fills a gap of right whale evolution| Palaeontologia Electronica
Hi, blog. We are in late September, and the seasonal differences are striking. Nights are now cool; there are no cicadas to be heard in the daytime (some can be heard around sunset), and the nightt…| Wild in Japan
