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Thursday, 08 January 2026

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Photographing Climate Change: Ice Porters on the Frozen Chadar River

State of the Planet [20:02:37]

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A new collaborative photo-essay chronicles the changing world of ice porters on a frozen river in northwest

Yet more raptors with their heads on backwards

Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [20:00:01]

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Here are a couple more backwards-headed raptor photos, courtesy of ceratopsian palaeontologist and home-brewing consultant Andy Farke: Here’s what he had to say about them: Your recent post spurred me to snap these photos of a burrowing owl doing backwards head things. There are a few individuals at the Living Desert Zoo in Palm Desert,

TASEKO LAKES FOSSIL ADVENTURE

ARCHEA [16:00:00]

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John Fam, VIPS & VanPSOver three field seasons, thirty-five taxa from the Mineralense and Rursicostatum zones were studied and three new species were discovered and named: Fergusonites hendersonae, [...]

Trump starts the killing at home

Ontario-geofish [14:10:00]

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 This is good for Canada.  He is just in distraction mode, trying to muddy the files that show him to be leading the whole eppie thing.  It's a repeat of Gatsby, who also was a [...]

As expected, Calgary water main report rather useless

Ontario-geofish [12:17:00]

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 I skimmed through this article.  Basically, they should have nailed down the physics in 2004.  The city response is exactly like earthquakes - what to do with a low probability, and [...]

Las navidades dinosaurianas de Senkai

Koprolitos [11:06:00]

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Vanessa Fernandes dos Santos (a.k.a. Senkai) es una ilustradora brasileña graduada en Arquitetura y Urbanismo por la Universidade de São Paulo en 2014 y con un posgrado en Arte para Juegos Digitales en la [...]

una nuova stratigrafia conferma come l'estinzione di fine Cretaceo sia dovuta ai trappi del Deccan

scienzeedintorni [15:33:00]

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A parte quella della fine del Cretaceo, tutte le estinzioni di massa (sia quelle maggiori che quelle minori) succedutesi dal Cambriano inferiore sono legate ad una attività di Large Igneous Province. In [...]

Only temperature charts left in the world

Ontario-geofish [12:41:00]

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 After years of living with the nooa land-based temperature charts, we are left with no charts.  I used to call this 'State of the Oceans', but the information is so thin now, that the title [...]

Arctic slowly starting to spin

Ontario-geofish [11:55:00]

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 I'm wondering now that there could be such a lack of heat energy, that everything is stagnant.We now have NA and Europe in a stagnant funk.  Siberia is starting to go [...]