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Friday, 05 June 2020

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Fill in the Blanks with Curator of Malacology Tina Petway 

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Ever since she was a little girl, Tina Petway has been enthralled with shells. Living along the Texas Gulf Coast, it just comes naturally to many of us.  The Houston native, now the associate curator of the George W. Strake Hall of Malacology at the Houston Museum of Natural Science, spent every moment she could

STUPENDEMYS GEOGRAPHICUS: A COLOSSAL TURTLE 

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Freshwater turtles come in all shapes and sizes but one of the most interesting and massive of these is the now-extinct freshwater turtle Stupendemys geographicus. These aquatic beasties had shells almost three metres long (up to 9.5 feet) making it about a 100 times larger and sharing mixed traits with some of it's nearest living relatives — the giant South American River Turtle,

The growth of Tyrannosaurus rex 

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Tyrannosaurus rex is the most iconic dinosaur of all time. It was discovered in the Hell Creek Formation by Barnum Brown in 1902, and later described  by Henry Fairfield Osborn in 1905. Osborn actually named [...]

What Will the Weather Be After Coronavirus? 

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Pollution is going down, but temperatures could still rise. Here’s

C19 Update with Brazil and Mexico 

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It is in the news today that Brazil has passed Italy for number of C19 deaths.  2020-06-05 Total US C19 deaths 108,211 Last five daily = [ 605  768 1031  995 1036] Future estimates    123096 +/- [...]

Is there water in the Earth’s core? 

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Update on climate and sea-level change during the Cenozoic 

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Changing conditions of metamorphism since the Archaean 

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Palaeozygopleura hamiltoniae gastropod from the Moscow formation 

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Another common gastropod from the middle Devonian is Palezygopleura hamiltoniae. Below are a couple of examples from the Deep Springs Rd. locality in New York. The species is easily recognized by the long [...]

How to film a stream table 

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Editor's note: This post on how to film a stream table was written by Mason Parrone’, Prototyper

How Water Infrastructure Can Enhance Sustainability 

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Guests at the Sustainable Development Speaker Series discussed how water infrastructure can be leveraged to protect the environment and address poverty, inequality, and social

Going Back ‘Home’ in the Time of Coronavirus 

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An international student recounts her experience of trying to return home while borders were closing due to the

Arsenic hazard on a global scale 

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More time for modern humans to have mingled with Neanderthals 

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Los reptiles mesozoicos cerveceros de Robert C. Olson 

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Robert C. Olson es un artista de California (Estados Unidos) defensor de la ilustración y la serigrafía hechas a mano. Recuerda dibujar desde que tenía uso de razón y tras un parón de casi una década, [...]

BASILEMYS FORELIMB 

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A beautifully articulated Basilemys turtle forelimb with osteoderms on the palmar surface. This specimen is from outcrops in the Kaiparowits Formation of Utah, USA. Basilemys is an extinct genus of early [...]
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