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This mysterious hole nearly swallowed a 6-year-old boy

On the south shore of Lake Michigan there are a series of large sand dunes that create the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. The dunes are a consequence of winds blowing sand along the length of Lake Michigan and the lake level dropping over time and exposing the shorelines. The largest is known as Mount Baldy, a 40-meter high pile of sand that is not anchored by vegetation and migrates side to side every year depending on the winds.

In July 2013, a Northwestern Illinois family including 6-year-old Nathan Woessner was hiking along the dune on vacation. Suddenly, Nathan vanished and all that was left was this hole. Adults reached in and couldn’t feel the boy or reach his hands.

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“nothing to see here.” - The Field Museum of Natural History

museums are giving us quality quarantine content

it is starting to bloom outside!!! smell like earth and worms!! the grass is tall and awake!!! flowers are here and scattered everywhere!!! it’s raining and humid and fresh!!! i know i say this every other day!!! i love!!! spring!!!

Obi on Shane Madej’s instastory on April 29, 2019.

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A predatory moment, frozen in geological time

You’re a hungry spider who is rushing towards a wasp that has become entangled in your web when all of a sudden everything goes sticky, you can’t move, frozen in place like the proverbial Tantalus with your food in sight but forever beyond your reach. Very soon after you are engulfed in another wash of sticky sap oozing out of a tree and everything goes dark. The spider may ironically have also been courting a painful death, since these wasps are parasitic and known to lay their eggs in spiders and other insects, with the larvae slowly consuming the insect from the inside out, preserving it alive by leaving the vital organs for last. Such a moment was caught by a unique fossil pictured below, that turned up in a hundred million year old piece of amber from what is now the Hukawng valley in Burma.

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Me writing: “She knew she had to go in this town called…”

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