The Science And Nature Thread - All Welcome

[Keyser]

Dolphins are very intelligent, you never see a dolphin reading or quoting fake news sites like Mail online or Guido.

Neither do corvids, parrots, monitor lizards, cephalopods or Portia.

On that topic we are discovering that the size of the brain or Encephalization quotient is not as important as most people think - it's the connections and the density of neurons that counts even for the smallest of creatures.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/arti ... ains-rule/

[Keyser]

Superfrogs.

https://www.researchgate.net/publicatio ... most_Chile

Calyptocephalellidae sp. (The giant Magellanic frog). It lived around 40 million years ago from the middle to upper Eocene in Chilean Patagonia, South America.



The Cretaceous Beelzebufo (a great name) is often stated on the web to be the largest frog of all time - it was not however.

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What the FUCK is that

One of the new species of Pelican spider - and yes I might use it as my avi BFF!

I never want to see it again Nature produces some really weird creatures. Sea creatures are probably the freakiest.

Yep - like the Viper dogfish I just posted!

Sorry but that reminds me a bit of a conger eel, Keys, (apart from the baraccudda/piranha fangs).

Many years ago I bought some chopped-up fish (plump, fresh-looking, and on special offer too) at Asda, labelled ''conger''. There was no mention of ''eel'' and for some reason I did not make the connection right away. My little lad did, as we were walking away from the checkout. He screamed like a girl and made me take it straight back! I did, I ran, aghast. LMAO

[Keyser]

Sorry but that reminds me a bit of a conger eel, Keys, (apart from the baraccudda/piranha fangs).

Many years ago I bought some chopped-up fish (plump, fresh-looking, and on special offer too) at Asda, labelled ''conger''. There was no mention of ''eel'' and for some reason I did not make the connection right away. My little lad did, as we were walking away from the checkout. He screamed like a girl and made me take it straight back! I did, I ran, aghast. LMAO

Congers are some of our most impressive predators.

You would have to cook a shitload of chips to go with some of the largest!

http://www.britishcongerclub.org.uk/conger.htm

[Keyser]

Radical feminists must bloody hate the S. Elephant seal and this smug bastard deserves every insult he gets!

[Keyser]

Glowing Chameleon bones and more.

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/201 ... light-spd/

https://pseudoplocephalus.com/2018/01/1 ... -clubs-go/

https://phys.org/news/2018-01-north-eas ... abell.html

[Aaron_Silver]

Delete sorry I'll figure this out one day

[Keyser]

Delete sorry I'll figure this out one day

Don't worry about it!

Yet another Cambrian Burgess Shale weirdo - Kootenayscolex barbarensis.

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/201 ... anada-spd/

https://phys.org/news/2018-01-million-y ... itish.html

https://www.livescience.com/61488-ancie ... stery.html





Great new collectable sculpture of Smilodon populator - the largest of the Sabretooths and probably the heaviest felid ever to live (with some specimens approaching a mass of 500kg).

https://kurama-cdn.animegami.co.uk/wp-c ... 1s01_b.jpg

https://kurama-cdn.animegami.co.uk/wp-c ... 1s01_f.jpg

https://sasuke-cdn.animegami.co.uk/wp-c ... 277744.jpg

[Nucks]

High levels of oxygen in the atmosphere during the Carboniferous Period allowed insects to grow to incredible sizes.

http://piecubed.co.uk/carboniferous-period-insect/

This is a model of Arthropleura, a millipede that could reach 2.6 m in length.

[Keyser]

High levels of oxygen in the atmosphere during the Carboniferous Period allowed insects to grow to incredible sizes.

http://piecubed.co.uk/carboniferous-period-insect/

This is a model of Arthropleura, a millipede that could reach 2.6 m in length.

There are loads of links on arthropod gigantism in this time period Nucks.

The Scottish scorpion Pulmonoscorpius at over 70 cm was a fine example as was the largest 'Griffin fly' Meganeuropsis at at over 75cm across!



http://www.eartharchives.org/articles/t ... dragonfly/

[Nucks]

I’ll just be catching a lift off the planet if they ever return to that size.

[Keyser]

I’ll just be catching a lift off the planet if they ever return to that size.

Unfortunately a (relatively small) Pulmonoscorpius managed to sneak onto the Tardis and is now about to teach some poor moggies about the harsh realities of the food chain.

[Nucks]

I’ll just be catching a lift off the planet if they ever return to that size.

Unfortunately a (relatively small) Pulmonoscorpius managed to sneak onto the Tardis and is now about to teach some poor moggies about the harsh realities of the food chain.

I’ve seen how they react to something as innocuous as a cucumber, I imagine a bug that size would make them shit their fluffy little pants.

[Keyser]

I’ll just be catching a lift off the planet if they ever return to that size.

Unfortunately a (relatively small) Pulmonoscorpius managed to sneak onto the Tardis and is now about to teach some poor moggies about the harsh realities of the food chain.

I’ve seen how they react to something as innocuous as a cucumber, I imagine a bug that size would make them shit their fluffy little pants.

Yep!

[Keyser]

Bits and bobs including a very interesting way to treat depression - by sleep derpivation.

https://phys.org/news/2018-01-australia ... saurs.html

https://phys.org/news/2018-01-insects-e ... wings.html

https://www.seeker.com/planets/portable ... conditions

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science- ... 180967905/