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It is located on Moraga Drive in Moraga Canyon along the western edge of the upscale neighborhood of Bel Air in Los Angeles, California. [1] [2] [6] [3] [4] [7] Moraga Canyon was already home to wild grapes, as noted by Fr. Juan Crespí (1721–1782) in his diary during the expedition of Gaspar de Portolà (1716–1784) in August 1769. [1]
Astroscopus guttatus or the northern stargazer is a fish belonging to the Uranoscopidae family and was first described by Charles Conrad Abbott in 1860. [2] [3] Members of the Uranoscopidae family are characterized by dorsally or dorsolaterally directed eyes placed on or near the top of a large, flattened cuboid head, an oblique to vertical mouth often lined with cutaneous cirri, and an ...
These two genera within stargazers represent one of eight independent evolutions of bioelectrogenesis. [2] They are unique among electric fish in not possessing electroreceptors, meaning that they do not use an electric sense to locate prey. [2] Stargazer's paired electric organs are aligned vertically inside the head, behind the eyes. [3]
It was the second full moon of August, thus the blue label. The Aug. 1 supermoon was more than 100 miles (160 kilometers) farther away. If you missed it, it will be a long wait: The next blue ...
The Southern Stargazer has evolved to hunt effectively through the use of a highly specialized body form, specifically the shape of its head. The skull of a stargazer is flat and wide; this extends to the tip of its mouth, giving the fish a flat-like surface from the base of the skull to the very end of the mouth. [9]
Astroscopus, the electric stargazers, is a genus of stargazers, a type of percomorph fish from the family Uranoscopidae, part of the order Labriformes. [3] The species in this genus are anatomically distinct uranoscopids, being characterized by internal nares and being the only group of marine bony fish having organs which produce electricity which are derived from the extraocular muscles.
Bliss, originally titled Bucolic Green Hills, is the default wallpaper of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system. It is a photograph of a green rolling hills and daytime sky with cirrus clouds.
Alfred Eisenstaedt photographed Gay Head Light many times and was a staunch supporter of Vineyard Environmental Research Institute's efforts to save island lighthouses during the 1980s and early 1990s. In May 2011, the Gay Head Light was presented in a Vineyard Gazette article as being available for "auction" in the near future. Both Gay Head ...