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Thursday, 14 May 2015

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I'm not fossilized yet, just resting. 

Views of the Mahantango [18:54:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (220 visits) info
category→science_technology
 Devonian; DE,US
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It's been a while since I've updated the blog but I'm slowly getting a queue built up in the background. My day job as an Project Engineer for a Telecommunications company is taking up some extra time these days. Plus now that the warm weather is back I've been doing some collecting. I've plenty of material to post in the next few months: some new Moroccan Trilobites (and Brachs and Goniatites) that I've recently added to my collection and a large number of fossils from the Lockhovian aged [...]

Ocean Acidification- What Exactly Happens? 

Reporting on a Revolution [17:39:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (192 visits) info
category→arts_entertainment
I've started following @Scitable, an education resource from journal Nature. A few days back they tweeted a link to an article on ocean acidification. Pay attention-   When CO2 dissolves in seawater to produce aqueous CO2 (CO2(aq)) it also forms carbonic acid (H2CO3) (Eq. 1; Figure 1). Carbonic acid rapidly dissociates (splits apart) to produce bicarbonate ions (HCO3-, Eq. 2). In

Died This Day: Georges Cuvier 

Palaeoblog [00:14:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (190 visits) info
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August 23, 1769 – May 13, 1832“Cuvier's scientific achievements are difficult to overestimate. It was widely recounted that he could reconstruct a skeleton based on a single bone. His work is considered [...]

Study Reveals Microbes’ Hidden Role in Fertilizing Oceans 

State of the Planet [20:12:45]  recommend  recommend this post  (167 visits) info
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Phosphorus is an essential nutrient for every living organism, well known for its role in fueling everything from the human body to farm fields. But up to now, surprisingly little has been known about how the [...]

Elefantes fósseis de Marrocos escavados por equipa marroquino-portuguesa 

Lusodinos- Dinossauros de Portugal [01:15:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (151 visits) info
category→sports
 Quaternary; MA
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No novo volume das Comunicações Geológicas é descrito parte do resultado do trabalho marroquino-português no Médio Atlas, e que foi tema da tese de mestrado de João Marinheiro integrado no Mestrado [...]

May 14, 2015 

Geology.com News [08:10:40]  recommend  recommend this post  (136 visits) info
category→recreation
Shell Gets Approval to Drill in the Chukchi Sea This SummerThe New York Times Arctic Ocean: Seafloor Features MapGeology.com ConocoPhillips CEO Thinks Chukchi Drilling Rules Are UnclearFuelFix Unusual [...]

¡Describen el dinosaurio con el nombre más corto! Ah bueno, y también parece que tiene como alas membranosas... 

Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillín) [10:46:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (131 visits) info
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Zby, Mei, Ara, Kol... muchos son los dinosaurios que desafiando los límites del Código Internacional de Nomenclatura Zoológica se han disputado el título por el nombre más breve, pero ¡abróchense los [...]

Two important new palaeobiological hypotheses regarding diplodocids 

Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [12:12:47]  recommend  recommend this post  (120 visits) info
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The first hypothesis is that, contra Elk (1972), all Brontosauruses were rather fat at one end, then much fatter in the middle, then thin at the other end. The second theory is that Diplodocus was dumb. [...]

New Dino-Birds: How the Beak Evolved 

Palaeoblog [18:16:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (105 visits) info
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 IE
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A molecular mechanism for the origin of a key evolutionary innovation, the bird beak and palate, revealed by an integrative approach to major transitions in vertebrate history. 2015. Bhullar, B-A. S., et al. [...]

Malcolm's Prophecy 

Theropoda [20:54:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (190 visits) info
category→recreation
 US
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Billy World è un film del 1985 diretto da Billy Tribolium. Il film narra di una colossale truffa volta ad imbrogliare persone ignoranti in paleontologia, che credono di pagare il biglietto per visitate un [...]

Here is The The Chance of A Major Hurricane Hitting The U.S. Coast this Year 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [06:33:46]  recommend  recommend this post  (154 visits) info
category→sports
 US,
This is really a great video from NASA, but what I like the most about it is how they explain a subtle fact of statistics that almost everyone, especially gamblers, basketball, and baseball players get wrong. [...]

El Museo de los Dinosaurios de Salas de los Infantes celebra el Día internacional de los Museos 

Tierra de Dinosaurios [14:07:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (143 visits) info
category→culture_politics
 ES,US,MA
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El Museo de Dinosaurios de Salas de los Infantes (Burgos) se adhiere un año más a la celebración del Día Internacional de los Museos, con un programa dirigido a todos los públicos para lo cual ha [...]

NASA Image Shows Ground Motion from First Nepal Quake 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [02:41:40]  recommend  recommend this post  (132 visits) info
category→recreation
 US,JP,NP
Also See more from fellow AGU blogger Dr. Dave Petley. From NASA:  Scientists with the Advanced Rapid Imaging and Analysis project (ARIA), a collaboration between NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, [...]

Explaining Lake Michigan’s Chicago Mirage 

Lake Scientist [15:46:46]  recommend  recommend this post  (131 visits) info
category→recreation
 US
Scientists at San Diego State University have explained an eerie floating image of the Chicago skyline that appeared upside down over Lake Michigan in mid-April 2015, according to the Detroit[...] The post [...]

Adventure in the City (2015) 

Koprolitos [09:06:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (114 visits) info
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 US,MX
A partir de un encargo de LEGO China, el animador y director creativo holandés Rogier Wieland ha realizado esta pieza en stop-motion en la que cobra especial protagonismo el dinosaurio del zoo.
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