Divider

Divider

Sunday, 27 July 2025

Bringing back the extinct moa bird


 The scientists who brought back the direwolves are now interested in bringing back another extinct animal. This is a giant moa bird native to New Zealand. The moa bird was large and flightless. Various different species of them came in similar shapes. They were tall with long necks but were wiped out by humans several hundred years ago. 

The idea of bringing back the giant South Island moa sounds promising and likely. I'm not an expert although it feels like a door opening here, when science can restore species that have been lost. 

Bringing back animals made extinct by humans is a wonderful advancement as it fills the gaps in nature, healing the world and restoring balance. It shows that humans have moved on today and bringing back extinct animals is not only a move with a more compassionate motive, but as a way to apologise for the cruelties of the past done to wild animals by people.

Storm Valkyrie 

Saturday, 19 July 2025

Nebra sky disc

 


One of the most prettiest and interesting relics of ancient times is the Nebra Sky Disc. This resembles a child's clock, complete with cute looking designs of the heavens but it was an important calendar. It shows stars, moons and the sun made in bright metallic golden yellow, with the cyan blue colour of the sky background. 

Found buried in a hill at Nebra in Germany, it's been dated as coming from the Bronze Age. Found buried with the disc were weaponry and jewels, with metals of tin, gold, copper and bronze. After radio carbon dating the artifacts, it seems they were from between 1700 BC to 1500 BC. 

More research done on the ancient findings found that the objects were created from different sources. The gold itself comes from the Carpathan Mountains, and other traces of gold and tin within the objects come from River Carnon in England. 

Its believed the symbols on the disc represent the crescent moon, the sun and partial eclipse, the Pleiades stars or Seven Sisters, the Summer and Winter solstices, sunrise and sunset, North and South. 

For more information on the charming Nebra sky disc:   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebra_sky_disc    

Storm Valkyrie

Tuesday, 8 July 2025

Being grateful


 Everyone needs oxygen. We all need water. People can go without some things but not others. Being ungrateful can come with an extreme over indulgence. Many have appreciated the abundance of food in markets, the warmth of a Summer beach, the fresh rainfall and the pretty butterflies. Find the small things to love and cherish as much as greater things. 

Inspirational quotes:

Never let the things you want make you forget the things you have." - Sanchita Pandey

"Appreciate what you have been given and you will be promoted higher." 

"The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely." — Louisa May Alcott

“Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.” — Doris Day

Storm Valkyrie