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New from Snet: Lithologs, a new tool to create lithological/sedimentological logs online..

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How physics stops animals getting really really big in 285 words

Consider a small sauropod of length x, as shown on the left above. Its mass is proportional to x cubed, it stands on leg bones whose cross-sectional area is x squared, and it ingests food through a gullet whose cross-sectional area is x squared. Now consider a larger sauropod of length 2x, as shown on […]

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