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Wednesday, 24 December 2025

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Christmas edition: Xmas love letters, Mary Stopes, and the discovery of the oldest flowers.

Letters from Gondwana [18:59:21]

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London, December 24th. “…I am glad that you are saving all your kisses for me when I come. By that time I shall be starving for kisses – so terribly hungry that you must kiss me very gently at first, or I will die – as a too hungry man must be fed very little

Greenland now signals everything back to normal

Ontario-geofish [12:36:00]

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A week ago we had a huge slug of warm Pacific air wander lost into the Arctic.  This was a Great White Shark coming into Orca Land.  Our wonderful cold air was diverted to the job of eating that warm air.  The warm shark liver has been getting smaller and smaller, and has left Greenland.You can start to see an arc forming.Greenland is full black with a white spot.That

The fossil record of early cetaceans from New Zealand, 3: toothed whales (Odontoceti)

The Coastal Paleontologist [12:00:00]

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For archaeocete whales, toothed baleen whales, and a review of the mid-Cenozoic stratigraphy of New Zealand, see part 1. For baleen-bearing baleen whales, see part 2. Ewan Fordyce posing [...]

CHAOES ON HOOVES: BEHOLD THE MIGHTY BOAR

ARCHEA [09:46:00]

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A Very Fetching Wild BoarIf you’ve ever wandered through an old-growth forest at dusk and felt the hair rise on the back of your neck, there’s a chance you were in wild boar country. Sus [...]

Unas cuantas ilustraciones paleonavideñas... (XI)

Koprolitos [11:16:00]

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A very christmasy Alxasaurus (Joschua Knüppe) Ya tenemos aquí las fiestas navideñas y fieles a nuestra cita, os traemos una recopilación de ilustraciones vistas en redes sociales con las que [...]

Monthly Fern Finale—Moonworts!

In the Company of Plants and Rocks [03:47:00]

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"A very singular and very pretty plant ... [leaflets] are rounded and hollowed, and thence its name came of Moonwort" Sir John Hill, 1770. (image from Atlas der Alenflora 1882). About 2075 years ago, [...]