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New from Snet: Lithologs, a new tool to create lithological/sedimentological logs online..
Monday, 07 August 2017
Matt just sent me an email entitled Are there “basal” sauropodomorphs?, in which he pointed me to Mario Bronzati’s (2017) opinion piece in Palaeontologia Electronica, “Should the terms ‘basal taxon’ and ‘transitional taxon’ be extinguished from cladistic studies with extinct organisms?” Here’s my reply, which at Matt’s suggestion I am posting here essentially unedited. I’ve not read […]
As regular readers will have noticed, I've received a great many scanned books by e-mail from Charles Leon, all very gratefully received (even the dino sex article). Animals of Yesterday, originally published in 1941 (with this edition arriving in 1966) is mostly a rather run-of-the-mill pre-Renaissance dinosaur book, stocked with the usual Zallingerian swamp beasts. All the same, it does present certain mysteries that I'd love for any readers familiar with museums in Milwaukee to clear up, and [...]
Okay kiddies, this is the last physics boring story to put you to sleep. As we know, plate tectonics always wants to kill us. It hasn't killed off life for 3 billion years, but it always tries. It always [...]
Any boring story about physics is sure to put the kids to sleep. When I tried to teach the kids how to fix computers, they said "Unlike you, Dad, we were born with electricity.' To paraphrase, they [...]
How will future disasters affect countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia? Researchers aiming to answer this question used projected changes in population and Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for 33 countries, [...]
This Earthlearningidea is fun for young children especially if it can be played outside, 'Sensory treasure hunt; using senses to match objects with similar properties'.
This activity has endless potential [...]
With the end of this miserable long weekend, we can officially call this a miserable summer. For the 10 years that our monster El Nino was building up, we had wonderful summers. Now it's back to the usual [...]
Luigi Gaskell es un joven filipino aficionado a los dinosaurios y a la serie "Juego de Tronos" que ha fusionado ambas pasiones en una serie de ilustraciones que ha ido publicando en su página de Facebook. [...]
Arcgis Data Driven Pages was added after Version 10.0. It will create the Map Book. Before version 10.0 we have to depend on third-party script. On any type of map book it is important to display Locator Map [...]
Berastagi, a city in northern Sumatra, is a great place for volcanoes, because it has two active ones: Mount Sibayak and Mount Sinabung. Active takes on a different context here; to the locals, Sinabung is [...]
Last week I lingered over Leona Creek, in the Leona Heights area, but there are three other streams in the land between Horseshoe Creek and Chimes Creek. I’ll label them on the watershed map from 1 to 3, [...]
L'olotipo di Borealopelta in vista dorsale (A) con indicati i differenti tessuti preservati (da Brown et al. 2017)
Brown et al. (2017)
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Such a miserable summer, you are going to have trouble putting the kids to sleep. Boring stories knock them out right away. Say it in a slow voice. I've written many boring stories here. It's all good [...]
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The Annapurna massif is located in an imposing 55 km long collection of peaks in the Himalayas, which behave as a single structural block. Composed of one peak (Annapurna I Main) in excess of 8000 m, a further [...]
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I am taking a "break" from rainy Arizona and gone to sunny Alaska. (No, that is not a typo). As northern Arizona is experiencing one of the wettest monsoons ever, I arrived in Anchorage Alaska to clear sunny [...]
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