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Thursday, 28 December 2023
Woolly Mammoths, Mammuthus primigenius, have always held wonder for me. These massive, hairy — and likely very smelly beasts — lived alongside us for a time. If you stood beside him and reached way up, you might be able to touch his tusks but likely not reach up to his mouth or even his eyes. He had a shaggy coat of light or dark coloured hair with long outer hair strands
This showy Christmas Cracker is a DinoflagellateThe showy royal blue Christmas cracker looking fellow you see here is a dinoflagellate. Bioluminescent dinoflagellates are a type of plankton — teensy marine organisms that make the seaways shimmer as you swim through them or the tide crashes them against the shore. The first modern dinoflagellate was described by Baker in 1753, the
Another day of cyclone chaos. Lots of warm air going over the Arctic. Greenland is losing the white, but the rest is getting some more black. I'll let [...]
This brachiopod fossil appears to be a Modiolopsis (Hall, 1847) from the Ordovician Period. It was found in the Logana
Member of the Lexington Limestone for Franklin County, Kentucky, USA.
Thanks to Kenny [...]
Frank Giacoia (1924-1989), a.k.a. “Frankie Ray”, “Phil Zupa” o –cuando trabajaba con Mike Esposito- “Espoia”, fue uno de los principales entintadores del cómic. Un día de 1940 [1], se armó [...]
ReferenceThis is the fourth quake to hit the region in the past 18 months. That had one resident, Ashley Marsden, wondering whether her town was becoming “the earthquake capital of Ontario.”All [...]
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