Amos Bouskila

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Can anyone identify these "eggs", found in a desert sand dune?

I placed the word "eggs" in quotation marks, because maybe they are not eggs... These structures shown in the photos were exposed in a sand dune by the wind in the Negev Desert, Southern Israel....

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Anyone knows who makes these piles of small stones?

I am attaching a couple of photos of small stone piles - the piles have a diameter of up to 10 cm, and can be up to 4 cm high (but sometimes they are quite flat). The small stones are about 2-5 mm...

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Have you seen plots of size vs. date to assist in identifying cohorts in lizards?

A few years ago I have seen the above mentioned plot (Snout Vent vs. Julian Date) in a Herpetology book, but I can't remember now which book it was, nor how was the plot called. The plot may be...

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Does anybody know what creates such mounds in sandy areas (photo attached)?

Photographed in stable sands in Donana Biological Reserve, Southern Spain. Similar mounds appeared a couple of days after heavy rains in Oct 2014. The sand was pushed out of the tunnel while wet....

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