My mother, sister and little baby nephew are enjoying the annual launch of hot air balloons in Albuquerque, New Mexico this weekend.
From the looks of it they’re having a great time and Bannack’s enjoying watching the massive rainbow globes expand and take off as much as I did my first time.
Andrew Tisher sent me this article:
White Lizards Evolve in New Mexico Dunes
Erica Bree Rosenblum’s focus has been on three lizard species that elsewhere are dark skinned but in White Sands have each evolved a white-skinned variety that makes them hard to find. “It’s really obvious what’s happened,” Dr. Rosenblum said. “Everybody got white so that they could better escape from their predators.” It’s a great example of convergent evolution, of species independently acquiring the same traits.