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Especial Halloween (Niñasauria)

Koprolitos [17:30:00]

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La noche de Halloween se acerca y qué mejor forma para prepararse que con un especial de terroríficas ilustraciones de los personajes de "Niñasauria", la tira de cómic creada por Luto, historietista, dibujante y fanzinero de Cali (Colombia). Recuerda que si quieres saber más sobre su trabajo mira por aquí o pásate por su cuenta de Instagram o su cuenta de Twitter.

‘Doomsday’ Antarctic Glacier Melting Faster Than Expected, Fueling Calls for Geoengineering

State of the Planet [16:50:58]

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With the fate of the Thwaites Glacier still uncertain, some experts are pushing for geoengineering and more intense climate

New group paper – traces of an ancient asteroid impact in NW Scotland

Earth & Solar System [16:04:30]

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Along the coast of NW Scotland, a few metres of sedimentary rocks were deposited during an impact event 1.2 billion years ago, forming the Stac Fada impact deposit. Despite detailed studies over the past few [...]

Ignace drilling results hidden behind paywall

Ontario-geofish [13:04:00]

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 Darn, I really wanted to see how they dressed up the huge fractures, that are always in this type of rock.  I suppose they are going to try to find a space between all of them.  [...]

Huge Arctic blob does an end-run past Toronto

Ontario-geofish [12:34:00]

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 This is big.  Right down the coast to hit Florida.  It's also a new thing.  Meanwhile, the tropics are going up a bit.  Most likely, this is due to [...]

SAKARA MADAGASGAR: OXFORDIAN OUTCROPS

ARCHEA [02:03:00]

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This big beastie is a superb specimen of the ammonite Lobolytoceras costellatum showing the intricate fractal pattern of its septa. This lovely measures to a whopping 230 mm and hails from Oxfordian [...]

Twelve Years After Sandy, Have We Gotten Better at Preparing for Disaster?

State of the Planet [15:48:49]

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Jeffrey Schlegelmilch, the director of Columbia’s National Center for Disaster Preparedness, reflects on applying lessons from Hurricane Sandy to more recent

Dinosaurios y visigodos: la labor patrimonial de Vega del Moll S.A.

Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillín) [12:45:00]

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El pasado 16 de octubre se celebró en la ciudad de Sevilla el acto de entrega de los I Premios Nacionales Minería y Vida en el marco del V Mining and Minerals Hall (MMH). Es en este año 2024 cuando se [...]

Dr. Christopher Columbus Graham - Oldest Kentucky Paleontologist?

Louisville Area Fossils [09:00:00]

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Of all the people I have blogged about so far in relation to the study of Kentucky and Indiana's natural history, Dr. Christopher Columbus Graham might be the most remarkable and colorful. He born among the [...]

To what extent is science a strong-link problem?

Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [01:24:48]

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Here’s a fascinating and worrying news story in Science: a top US researcher apparently falsified a lot of images (at least) in papers that helped get experimental drugs on the market — papers that were [...]