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Curculigo capitulata is a tuberous evergreen herb with thick rhizomes and thin stolons. In adverse conditions, the rhizomes may remain dormant for a long time. The leaves are palm-like, which is why the plant is more known as palm grass. Usually, 4-7 leaves [6] [7] are held on 30–80 cm long stalks.
British whaling in the Philippines were reported to have occurred from 1820 to 1840 while American whaling was reported to have happened in 1825 and 1880 alongside local whaling by Filipinos in Bohol. [1] There was a short period of commercial whaling in the Philippines from 1981 to 1986. Philippine whalers fished within Philippine exclusive ...
In 1998–1999, Harvard researchers published their DNA identifications of samples of whale meat they obtained in the Japanese market, and found that mingled among the presumably legal (i.e. minke whale meat) was a sizeable proportion of dolphin and porpoise meats, and instances of endangered species such as fin whale and humpback whale.
July 23, 2024 at 8:00 AM. A NOAA crew works Friday to free a young humpback whale off Dana Point that had become entangled in rope. (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) The young ...
July 16, 2024 at 3:33 AM. WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Spade-toothed whales are the world’s rarest, with no live sightings ever recorded. No one knows how many there are, what they eat, or ...
Though the band now boasts 10 studio albums (11 with Greatest Hits) and has taken home eight Academy of Country Music awards, nine Country Music Association trophies and three Grammys, their rise ...
Banaue, Batad rice terraces with homes c. 2000. The Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras are a World Heritage Site consisting of a complex of rice terraces on the island of Luzon in the Philippines. They were inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1995, the first-ever property to be included in the cultural landscape category of ...
Unprecedented numbers of gray whales are visiting San Francisco Bay, and nobody quite knows why. Susanne Rust. July 14, 2024 at 6:00 AM. Gulls feed on a dead gray whale in San Francisco Bay ...