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Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs [22:29:00]
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The dust of Jurassic World may have settled too long to warrant sharing these pictures now, but I was in the throes of moving house, followed by a lengthy period without home internet, and lacked the opportunity previously. Still, I felt I couldn’t have these pictures on my hands without posting them on the blog. During the first week of Jurassic World’s release, London’s Waterloo Station took part in what can only be described as a promotional extravaganza with a display featuring [...]
Es bewährt sich, das Weltkulturerbe Rammelsberg als Lehr- und
Forschungsbergwerk in die akademische Ausbildung an der TU Clausthal zu
integrieren. Dies ist bei der Ergebnispräsentation des Lehrprojektes
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sltrib.com Researchers sifting through deposits of owl pellets in Utah’s Homestead Cave have discovered that small-mammal communities scurrying around the West Desert remained stable through millennia of [...]
Aufgrund der wissenschaftlichen Theorie des Punktualismus gibt es in
der Fachwelt die verbreitete Auffassung, dass große Entwicklungen bei
afrikanischen Säugetieren (einschließlich Mensch) stets [...]
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So, a pitiful Japanese nuclear reactor got hit by a 1 in 500 seismic event. Big mess. The reactor beside it wasn't bothered. Now they are restarting, and this probably puts less lives at risk [...]
Sometimes when we’re trying to get a core, we end up with just an empty liner. We expect that to happen. What we don't expect is getting a [...]
Geology in the West Country [18:51:00]
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(157 visits) category→science_technology Ordovician,Cambrian; GB,IN
Lifelong Learning 4 day course Field Geology in Pembrokeshire (Part 1) Two weekends in October: 10th, 11th and 24th, 25th10.00 am – 5.00 pm each dayThe Pembrokeshire landscape differs from much of [...]
One of our goals this expedition is to find new dinosaur sites to excavate next year. After four unsuccessful days of hiking around southern Utah looking for sites, the team spent four days prospecting the [...]
Louisville Area Fossils [03:00:00]
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(142 visits) category→science_technology Carboniferous; US
This picture shows what appears to be a Fenestella bryozoan fossil. While a common fossil to find in the Louisville area when looking a Mississippian age rock, finding one with narrow tube like holdfasts is [...]
El ilustrador Vinicius Gut, residente en Junidiaí (São Paulo, Brasil), es un apasionado del skate y muestra de ello es la recurrencia de este elemento en sus diseños. Animales patinando, calaveras y [...]
Lorenz Oken (Aug. 1, 1779 - Aug. 11, 1851) was a German naturalist who offered early evolutionary ideas and stimulated comparative anatomy. He theorized (incorrectly) that the skull was a modified vertebra, [...]
Geognostische Profile, aus Tauber, 1799 - () - Ort: Plauenscher
Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [11:33:55]
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Back in 2012, when Matt and I were at the American Museum of Natural History to work on “Apatosaurus” minimus, we also photographed some other sacra for comparative purposes. One of them [...]
Arizona State University says they were awarded its second Engineering Research Center from the National Science Foundation, making it one of only two universities in the nation to lead two of the prestigious [...]
Two new reports from the National Research Council look at the issue of tying the cost of flood insurance to the level of risk associated with the structures being insured.
It turns out about 1/5 of the 5.5 [...]
Dennis E. Hayes, a marine geophysicist who advanced mapping of the world’s ocean floors, died at his home in New York City on Aug. 6. He was
So, after a Dismal day of Disappointment, the vagabonders hit the road, going north onto the Olympic Peninsula. It was my first time on the west side of the peninsula, and my first foray into the Hoh [...]
by “Cretaceous” Chris Wells The Houston Museum of Natural Science started small. Back in 1909, when the museum was founded, you could probably see everything we had to offer in 30 minutes. But [...]
Officials in New Mexico, Utah, and Arizona are analyzing the potential impacts of 3 million gallons of waste water from the abandoned Gold King mine in Colorado [right, credit US EPA], as it moves down the [...]
There’s a nice little story in the New York Times today about flying saucers. Sixty eight years ago the world learned them, or at least the term originated then. It was in reference to objects that [...]
During the summer time, Canada’s Abraham Lake looks like many of its neighboring water bodies. Nestled in a section of Alberta’s Rocky Mountains, the lake is dwarfed by towering peaks[...]
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Click to enlarge Noodle on that for a minute. I’ll post my answer later. No hints for now. Just examine what you see in the
Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [07:40:49]
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Among my fellow meteorologists, the talk after Hurricane Sandy was how accurate the european ECMWF model was compared to the U.S. Global Forecast System (GFS) model. Fortunately, most of us who were [...]
Geognostische Profile, aus Tauber, 1799 - () - Ort: Plauenscher