First up, a #NorthCarolina#Swamp is recovering from a recent fire, and local conservationists and experts are giving guided tours of the area to show how it's going.
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The fur-bearing trout of North American tall tales is supposedly found in the Arkansas River as well as Canadian rivers. Some say the trout evolved fur to survive frigid waters, while others say it was the result of four jugs of hair tonic spilled in the Arkansas River. #FolkloreSunday
Dionysos has two swamp-related #epithets: Limnaios, Dionysos of the Marsh, and Limnegenes, "born in a lake or marsh". The epithets probably refer to a temple of #Dionysos near the Ilissos River in #Athens. According to Thucydides, the temple of Dionysos Limnaios was to the South of the Akropolis and one of the city's oldest sanctuaries.
There are many tales in #JapaneseFolklore of frog brides. In these stories, magical frogs take on human form with the goal of marrying a human man. They look just like regular women, only they tend to be quite frail & often don't have the strength to do many normal tasks. If undiscovered, their marriages can be very long & happy, but if the husband witnesses his wife transforming into or from a frog, it will all end tragically. #SwampSunday#folklore#yokai
🎨1. Matthew Meyer
2. Watanabe Seitei
"A newly described fossil is as old as the “first bird,” #Archaeopteryx, and represents a #Birdlike dinosaur that might have specialized in running or wading instead of flying..."