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Ferwen
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A future paleontologist. Sport fan, comic books and movies. Campeona del mundo ⭐️⭐️⭐️🇦🇷
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I wrote a book #MujeresdeLasPiedras
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Y si yo digo que es penal, es penal. ¿Y sabés quién me puede decir que estoy equivocado o no estoy equivocado? Otro argentino. Aguante 🇦🇷
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Pretty good example of why hiring an animation shop with decent rendering capability doesn’t cut it when there’s nobody who knows how animals move. The pig squeals are…novel?
September 17, 2026 at 2:23 PM
What Nature’s Silence Said to Annie Dillard
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What Nature’s Silence Said to Annie Dillard
The late writer believed that hearing the natural world is its own form of prayer.
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September 17, 2026 at 2:29 AM
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Super cool! large new crater McGetchin spotted on the Moon thanks to Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter wide-angle camera covering it more than once: science.nasa.gov/solar-system...
NASA’s Moon Orbiter Spots New, ‘Once-in-Century’ Moon Crater - NASA Science
It started as a routine data-quality check. But as Robert Wagner, a scientist with NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), scanned a giant Moon map on his
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September 16, 2026 at 9:16 PM
The body temperature of Tyrannosaurus rex | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The body temperature of Tyrannosaurus rex
Despite an extensive history of study, quantitative constraints on the thermophysiology of Tyrannosaurus rex remain limited. Here, we derive a thermodynamically based determination of T. rex body temp...
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September 16, 2026 at 7:37 PM
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Tyrannosaurus vs Triceratops animation
September 16, 2026 at 2:42 PM
Pick Your Apocalypse: Climate vs. AI Doom
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Pick Your Apocalypse: Climate vs. AI Doom
Some Thoughts On the *Other* Existential Threat
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September 16, 2026 at 5:18 PM
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About 20 years after Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins made the original Hadrosaurus mount for the Academy of Natural Sciences, three* plaster casts were produced for other museums: The US National Museum, the Field Columbian Museum, and the Princeton Museum of Geology.
September 15, 2026 at 6:07 PM
Intercontinental evidence of the iconic genus Diplodocus Marsh, 1878 (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/...
Intercontinental evidence of the iconic genus Diplodocus Marsh, 1878 (Dinosauria, Sauropoda)
The sauropod Diplodocus is one of the most iconic dinosaurs, with fossils traditionally known from the Morrison Formation (U.S.A.; Kimmeridgian–Tithonian). Here, we describe a new diplodocid specim...
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September 16, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Yaaaas
September 16, 2026 at 2:10 AM
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The thing about Bob Mackie that always blew me away is how confidently he moved between glamour and comedy. There's probably no funnier single costume reveal in the history of television than Carol Burnett in their parody of Gone With The Wind wearing the curtains. "I saw it in the window ..."
September 14, 2026 at 9:12 PM
Modelling compressive loading in large‐bodied mammals reveals distinct biomechanical strategies in proboscidean humeri onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Modelling compressive loading in large‐bodied mammals reveals distinct biomechanical strategies in proboscidean humeri
Graviportal proboscideans differ in limb morphology, adopting slender or more robust long bone morphotypes. Finite element analyses (FEA) on extant and extinct taxa reveal functional differences betw....
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September 14, 2026 at 5:15 PM
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#MinCup26 ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology #geosky #GIS 🍎 🪐 🔭 🌋 📚 🌿
Purple halite 😍 The colouring is probably due to irradiation and crystal defects. This one is from Intrepid Potash East Mine in New Mexico, USA. From the NHM London's collection #MinCup26 #minerals
September 13, 2026 at 7:19 PM
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CN: DV/DA I’ll be rooting for Ben Shelton today in the #USOpen men’s final. Not only b/c Shelton is an up-and-comer, or that he’s the first Black man to play in a final on Ashe since 1972, but also because of the DV allegations against his opponent Zverev. www.espn.com/tennis/story...
Alexander Zverev domestic abuse charges: What to know
As Alexander Zverev plays in the French Open, his domestic abuse trial began on Friday. Here's what to know about the case.
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September 13, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Everything, everywhere, all at once? Trends in Diplodocoidea diversity during the Jurassic/Cretaceous transition
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September 13, 2026 at 8:19 AM
#FossilFriday During #WWII, paleontologist Julia Anna Gardner became the leader of a group known as “The Dungeon Gang” that provided strategic information through analyses of maps, & aerial photographs to the Armed Forces. ⚒️🧪🔬
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September 11, 2026 at 10:32 PM
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MIDDLE EAST NEVER ENDING RECORD HEAT

Relentless record heat continues:
Today the Doha old Int. Airport rose to 46.3C,breaking its September high temperature records.
One by one,nearly all records of September and all past months have fallen in the area.
September 10, 2026 at 10:49 PM
September 11, 2026 at 12:50 AM
The colour of sauropod skin. A comment on: ‘Fossilized melanosomes reveal colour patterning of a sauropod dinosaur’, (2025) by Gallagher et al. royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...
The colour of sauropod skin. A comment on: ‘Fossilized melanosomes reveal colour patterning of a sauropod dinosaur’, (2025) by Gallagher et al.
Gallagher et al. [1] report preserved melanosomes in the integument of juvenile diplodocids from the Late Jurassic of Mother's Day Quarry (Montana, USA). T
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September 9, 2026 at 11:59 PM
Evolving meridional biogeochemical gradients and eccentricity moderate calcifying phytoplankton communities through the early Pliocene
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September 9, 2026 at 11:57 PM
Pelvic and hindlimb osteology and ontogeny of a troodontid from the upper member of the Two Medicine Formation (Cretaceous) of Montana
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Pelvic and hindlimb osteology and ontogeny of a troodontid from the upper member of the Two Medicine Formation (Cretaceous) of Montana
Troodontid theropod dinosaurs from the Campanian of western North America have historically been known from fragmentary remains. This limited material has made understanding the biology and taxonomy o...
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September 9, 2026 at 8:42 PM
Titanosaur eggshells from the latest Cretaceous of Patagonia, Argentina: implications for nesting at high latitude royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...
Titanosaur eggshells from the latest Cretaceous of Patagonia, Argentina: implications for nesting at high latitude
Abstract. Dinosaur egg remains are rarely found in areas of high palaeolatitudes, with Canada (approx. 57–60° N) and Siberia (approx. 70–75° N) yielding th
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September 9, 2026 at 6:10 PM
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426.53 parts per million (ppm) CO2 in air 08-Sep-2026
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The Keeling Curve
The Keeling Curve is a daily record of global atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration maintained by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.
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September 9, 2026 at 5:26 PM
Mood
Resigned Tired
ALT: Resigned Tired
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September 9, 2026 at 5:12 PM