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Tuesday, 13 January 2026

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Stop it, birds, your necks are stupid 

Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [18:59:09]  recommend  recommend this post  (41 visits) info
We’ve seen a lot of raptors with their heads turned 180 degrees recently. Jerry Harris dropped me a line to remind me that flamingos are also perverts when it comes to neck posture. Here are three of his photos: All these photos show multiple individuals curving their necks through 180 degrees so they can rest

NASA can't launch itself out of a paper bag 

Ontario-geofish [16:58:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (22 visits) info
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 I am really looking forward to this.  I love being proven wrong.  For instance, musk may launch a fully loaded Starship, once he gets enough stainless steel out of the thing.  Notice how it's not shiny any more?nasa is the king of tyrant engineering.  This is going to be so good.  A perfect mission is the way to shut me up forever (not

GRACEFUL BEAUTY: ALBERTONIA 

ARCHEA [16:30:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (30 visits) info
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This graceful beauty, with its elegant, sail-like fins and armour of shimmering scales, is Albertonia sp.—an Early Triassic ganoid fish whose lineage once glided through the recovering seas of what is now [...]

Raweese da Monsta! 

Ontario-geofish [12:16:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (19 visits) info
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 That's all I remember from my favourite cartoon movie, where they released a giant home-made monster.  Anyway, we now have a full A6 or 7 coming down on us.You can see it tearing into the [...]

The Sterling Stirling Atmospheric Engine is now a working hypothesis 

Ontario-geofish [13:44:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (22 visits) info
 The most important thing with the Scientific Method is to have a hypothesis that can pass or fail.  Nobody wants to do that any more, because of influencers ready to pounce.  For [...]

Viaje con nosotros a... Skartaris 

Koprolitos [09:37:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (12 visits) info
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Recuperamos esta serie que inauguramos hace año y medio con un paseo por Pellucidar proponiéndote destinos alternativos con sabor mesozoico y aptos para cualquier bolsillo (basta abrir un libro/tebeo o [...]
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