Star tortoise lifespan is 35 to 80 years, better care longer life, and the fact it handled the cold and deprivation so well suggests it was an adult to begin with. So it probably lived awhile longer and then died a natural death, and some nuance shifted in the translation.

Kimchi is adorable and has a very nice home. Flowers could use a refill.

Did you, though?

Especially with less-reaching-than-T-Rex hands. Fortunately they’re allatime swishing with salt water

Given it also has a mouth-to-anus tube, is there a name for a double torus? Genus-2 torus I guess

Looking at your times, I had the one that took you the longest almost the moment I opened the puzzle, right after the obvious Kane. Which suggests that the fact I’m an old fart means certain phrases in this list are just more familiar to me. Whereas yesterday was a struggle, and required 3 bolts.

Looking another way, yesterday I got several bonus minutes of interesting brain exercise!

Apparently I’m older and slower. 5500, 0:51

Damn, I guess those pinnipeds were large and in charge

(If this is a no jokes place give me a bunch of down votes and I’ll delete it. But that is how my lazy brain read “seal impressions,” like fossilized tracks or toothmarks or bones)

Love the energy!

It looks like a fresh pineapple tastes

I’m loving “dow” but as a retired schoolmarm I’m obligated to tell you we spell it “dough”

And we’d probably call it a “damp” cloth, saving “humid” to describe moist air.

It’s completely readable as is, though.

I hope you’ve started scanning the dark periphery like we do. Not because you deserved anything that happened to you! And I’m not assuming you weren’t already. But because I can’t do anything to protect you from over here on the Internet and I don’t want that to happen to you anymore. It’s when we’re near home that we tend to let our guard down.

As a woman, imagining situations like those: I can see the brightly lit center is empty, that’s all I need to know about it. The stairs require several glances especially if I’m in heels or other unstable shoes. But those dark corners need checking and rechecking the whole time I’m walking, to be sure no tiny changes betray a lurker. Who is probably going to wait until they’re at my back to make a move.

My mental image of the guys scanning the same image: “Yeah that’s where I’m going, that’s obviously where I’m looking.” Sure, they could get mugged but it’s less likely, and physical threat isn’t on their mind.

Ingestion of lead ammunition is the primary reason California Condors (obligate carrion eaters) almost became extinct, are still endangered, and aren’t having the greatest success with being reintroduced.

As for bald eagles, they’re lazy smart, if they see takeout just sitting there, they’re not gonna make dinner from scratch.

I think next time I’m going to tell them all about bees! And I could throw in a few facts about chambered nautiluses, too although I don’t know enough to center the call about them.

From the cat’s point of view there’s no downside!

So entertaining!

There was a man who really told us who he was. I’d be reading along in my dad’s Analog Magazine, not really noticing authors, and suddenly find myself chest-deep in evil. What a dick.

I’d be shitting myself laughing.

Unless your partner is an asshole, tell them briefly about the incident and ask them to wait at the vehicle rather than put you in that position again. You’re partners for a reason, to have each other’s six.

It takes a village to survive. Some to remember the exact differences between safe, fun, and deadly mushrooms and others to turn predators into prey.

Ancient people had to remember/memorize a lot more things just to get through their days, before writing existed.