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Wednesday, 25 March 2020

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Apatosaurine cervicals of the ancient Maya civilisation 

Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [21:03:11]  recommend  recommend this post  (194 visits) info
Our old sparring partner Cary Woodruff is a big fan of Monarobot, a Mexican artist who does all of her pieces in a Maya artistic style. So he commissioned this piece: Anyone can tell that this is an apatosaurine cervical in anterior view — but which apatosaurine cervical? SV-POW Dollars(*) await the first person to

A letter from Charro the Iguana 

BEYONDbones [16:57:03]  recommend  recommend this post  (154 visits) info
By Charro  Hey y’all what’s up, it’s Charro here, your resident green iguana here at the museum. You might have seen me on walks around the grand hall with my caretaker. I am the orange and green guy latched onto someone’s shoulder.  I miss seeing everyone, quite honestly, even the teenagers who try and get

DOWN TO EARTH EXTRA - April 2020 

Geology in the West Country [16:36:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (143 visits) info
DOWN TO EARTH EXTRA - April 2020 You can get the latest edition HERE

Diamonds Make a Craton Bigger 

Geology in the West Country [16:15:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (108 visits) info
Baffin Island Kimberlites and the North Atlantic Craton A correspondent has brought THIS ARTICLE to my attention. Researchers working on kimberlites in southern Baffin Island found that wall rocks brought to [...]

Trump says: "Party Like It's 1999 (cases)" 

Ontario-geofish [14:40:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (58 visits) info
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Reference That blank space used to be filled with the old doctor.  He was like a hand-signer except with Italian gestures.  When Trump blurped out a lie, he would slap his face and express "Momma [...]

Dominic Cummings 

James’ Empty Blog [13:47:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (80 visits) info
Dominic Cummings is a stupid person's clever person. That's it. That's the tweet. The long version is, he's a stupid person's clever person because he has read some popular science and juvenile edgy [...]

That Oxford study, in full, in brief 

James’ Empty Blog [10:59:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (79 visits) info
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This post refers. And this manuscript which has received an unreasonable amount of attention. Here are a few simulations from the SEIR model I've been using, with different death rates (presented in the pic [...]

Mary Anning's Grave 

Louisville Area Fossils [04:20:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (145 visits) info
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On a sunny and windy August day in 2016, I visited a coastal town called Lyme Regis in the county Dorset, England. This area is part of what is known as the Jurassic Coast which stretches approximately 150 km [...]

At this Moment of Crisis........ 

Geology in the West Country [16:31:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (134 visits) info
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At this Moment of Crisis........ Several correspondents have brought the following to my notice. I think it originated on EPOD, which contains much of interest.

FOSSILS, TEXTILES AND URINE 

ARCHEA [15:20:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (178 visits) info
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You may recall the eight-metre Type Specimen of the ichthyosaur, Temnodontosaurus crassimanus, found in an alum quarry in Yorkshire. The Yorkshire Museum was given this important ichthyosaur fossil back in [...]

Coryphodon and the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum: Emily Randall’s Senior Independent Study thesis 

Wooster Geologists [14:08:32]  recommend  recommend this post  (193 visits) info
Editor’s Note: Independent Study (IS) at The College of Wooster is a three-course series required of every student before graduation. Earth Sciences students typically begin in the second semester of their [...]

Viajando al pasado con George Williams 

Koprolitos [11:51:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (89 visits) info
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Nos han gustado mucho mucho las ilustraciones de George Williams, artista procedente del noroeste de Inglaterra. Dibuja cómics y diseña personajes, y ha publicado en varios fanzines benéficos. Según [...]

Hardouinia kellumi echinoid from the Pee Dee formation 

Views of the Mahantango [08:01:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (145 visits) info
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Echinoids are cool critters that come in two basic flavors, regular and irregular. The regular echioids are the ones you see in aquariums and on nature shows with the long spines crawling along the bottom of [...]

The Tinajas Altas Mountains and Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge 

Earthly Musings [00:46:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (109 visits) info
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“I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs and gleams…”   Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French writer, [...]
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