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posted by brundlefly
on Feb 4, 2012 -
20 comments
"Like many paleontologists, I believe that T. rex was a hunter: a forest hunter. More specifically, I believe that T. rex used the very same hunting strategy that millions of forest hunters practice today:
stand hunting from a tree."
posted by brundlefly
on Jul 12, 2010 -
66 comments
On April 23, 2009 Natalia Rybczynski, Mary R. Dawson, and Richard H. Tedford published their paper "
A semi-aquatic Arctic mammalian carnivore from the Miocene epoch and origin of Pinnipedia" in the journal,
Nature, detailing their 2007 discovery of the species they have named
Puijila darwini.
The carnivorous marine mammal,
which lived about 21 to 24 million years ago, was discovered practically by
accident, but as a "transitional fossil" is
re-writing our understanding of pinniped evolution. It could also be noted that it was most likely
cute as all get out, and is already the star of it's
own mini documentary.
posted by vertigo25
on Apr 29, 2009 -
28 comments
Tracks of Swimming Dinosaur found in Wyoming The tracks of a previously unknown, two-legged swimming dinosaur have been identified along the shoreline of an ancient inland sea that covered Wyoming 165 million years ago, according to a University of Colorado at Boulder graduate student.
posted by hostile7
on Oct 19, 2005 -
15 comments
DREAM WORLD
Given that green tea provides a more effective and environmentally-friendly method of preparing computer hard disks, pulsars are used to study gravitational waves with great precision, solar cells made from nanocrystals are found to be much more efficient, and scientists have discovered evidence for the earliest known wildfire in Earth's history, 443 to 417 million years ago, it would be hard to make the case that what we are living in is not, in fact, a Dreamworld.
posted by mcgraw
on Apr 27, 2004 -
29 comments
