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Patterson tells court her children were mistaken when they said she served herself leftover beef wellington the night of the lunch

Triple-murder accused also denies foraging death caps hours before buying food dehydrator as trial continues

Victorian court hears from mycologist who identified death cap mushrooms growing near Patterson’s home in Gippsland

What exactly is iNaturalist? The 17-year-old citizen science project that has been referenced in an Australian murder trial

The world has been gripped by the case of Australian woman Erin Patterson, who was charged with the murder of three people after allegedly serving them a lunch of beef wellington containing poisonous death cap mushrooms (Amanita phalloides).

Near the towering border wall flanked by a US Border Patrol vehicle, botanist Sula Vanderplank heard a quail in the scrub yelp “chi-ca-go,” a sound the birds use to signal they are separated from a mate or group.

Seahorses are considered fabled creatures by many; something that only exists in old mythical tales of the ocean. But these curious animals really exist – and they’re not the only members of the Syngnathidae family of fishes. Other syngnathids are pipefish, pygmy pipehorses and seadragons, and all are enchanting.

Imagine a jungle. It’s probably a lush forest, filled with different bird songs and the hum of thousands of different kinds of insects. Now imagine a tundra: barren, windswept terrain with relatively few kinds of plants or animals.

KFRI to map frogs with public participation during monsoon