If you look up in the sky in north Seattle, you will likely see them every evening around sunset: Hundreds, perhaps thousands of crows flying overhead, headed in the same direction, just like clockwork. Those crows join up with more crows along their nightly route and eventually a murder of many thousands of crows converges on the rooftops and trees around the University of Washington, Bothell campus.
Read more at the Seattle PI »Loving the chambered nautilus to death
It is a living fossil whose ancestors go back a half billion years—to the early days of complex life on the planet, when the land was barren and the seas were warm. Naturalists have long marveled at its shell. The logarithmic spiral echoes the curved arms of hurricanes and distant galaxies. In Florence, the Medicis turned the pearly shells into ornate cups and pitchers adorned with gold and rubies.
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