I know most people here have likely seen the dashboard announcement for this, but I wanted to share an oral history of the recent Mola tecta observation and ID collaboration from southern California that I compiled. It was a lot of fun reading everyone’s account of how it all went down.
https://www.inaturalist.org/blog/22612-holy-mola-the-oral-history-of-an-inat-identification
this was a wonderful blog post, thanks for doing it! I had to unsubscribe from it due to all the comments, but i assume others are enjoying it too.
Magnificent! Must have been fun to write, too!
All I did was assemble it, have to give credit for everyone who took the time to write their part.
Yeah, but someone had to assemble, make sense of it, have the idea in the first place :-) It was a nice job.
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