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Tuesday, 20 January 2026

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Get Ready for Smokier Air: Record 2023 Wildfire Smoke Marks Long-Term Shift in North American Air Quality

State of the Planet [17:01:52]

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A new analysis of air quality data from the past 70 years shows a broader, continent-wide trend toward smokier

Spanish rail goes 'plink' in the cold

Ontario-geofish [16:50:00]

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 I'm just going on the observation that there never was a European train that could handle the cold.  This failure is a classic expansion joint pull that happens with highways and train tracks.  Of course, this is only a wild guess, but wild guesses are the new Influencer Science.  Why can't I throw it into the ring?  Since it is a 'cold' thing, we'll never

TOXODON: SOUTH AMERICA'S MOST MAGNIFICENT ODDBALL

ARCHEA [16:00:00]

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Toxodon was a hulking, hippo-sized grazing mammal that once roamed the ancient grasslands, wetlands, and scrub of South America. The creature first entered the scientific spotlight thanks to [...]

Great Lakes Ice Cube

Ontario-geofish [12:29:00]

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 We are heading to 30 below as I predicted.  This was the fine weather in 1983, when the pipes kept freezing in our first, very old house.Once they are frozen, they stop creating a 'Lake [...]

Neochelys arribasi: la última pleurodira dulceacuícola del Eoceno de Europa

Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillín) [12:35:00]

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Acaba de ser publicado, en la revista Diversity, un artículo en el que se examina la validez del representante temporalmente más joven de Neochelys descrito hasta la fecha, que representa el último [...]

Belatedly … here’s DRAFT v4 of the checklist for new zoological genus and species names

Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [10:01:30]

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Long-term readers will remember that waaay back in 2011, we started the process of putting together a checklist for people naming new zoological genera and species, distilling the relevant portions of the long [...]