The Science And Nature Thread - All Welcome

[Keyser]

Just a rather interesting portrait of the Great One (do not know how to resize).

Here, I saved a copy off sight and resized it for you.

Remarkable color combinations but so do so many of their tiny little lizard cousins that we see so often.

keysers%20reptileimg.jpg

Thank you very much.

[4ever2]

Just a rather interesting portrait of the Great One (do not know how to resize).

Here, I saved a copy off sight and resized it for you.
Remarkable color combinations but so do so many of their tiny little lizard cousins that we see so often.
Thank you very much.

I still haven't figured out 'WHY' this format is such a pain in the arse to work with when all of the other Forumotion sights are easy to manipulate images on the page with the url's ...I'm gonna get it figured out one of these days; if it's the LAST THING I EVER DO! LOL

[Keyser]

Just a rather interesting portrait of the Great One (do not know how to resize).

keysers reptileimg.jpg

Here, I saved a copy off sight and resized it for you.
Remarkable color combinations but so do so many of their tiny little lizard cousins that we see so often.
Thank you very much.

I still haven't figured out 'WHY' this format is such a pain in the arse to work with when all of the other Forumotion sights are easy to manipulate images on the page with the url's ...I'm gonna get it figured out one of these days; if it's the LAST THING I EVER DO! LOL

[Keyser]

The oldest multicellular life, those remarkable herbivorous theropods the Therizinosaurs and a lovely portrait of Nasutoceratops.

http://www.eartharchives.org/articles/o ... old-rocks/

http://www.eartharchives.org/articles/d ... th-knives/

http://orig04.deviantart.net/31fd/f/201 ... b0ba9k.jpg

[4ever2]

The oldest multicellular life, those remarkable herbivorous theropods the Therizinosaurs and a lovely portrait of Nasutoceratops.

http://www.eartharchives.org/articles/o ... old-rocks/

http://www.eartharchives.org/articles/d ... th-knives/

http://orig04.deviantart.net/31fd/f/201 ... b0ba9k.jpg

Now that 'Spring' has arrived my time will be left to my evenings, but I'll enjoy these pages when it's monsoon season here and I've nothing worth while to do.
Nice image of that 'Nasutoceratops' ...

[Keyser]

The oldest multicellular life, those remarkable herbivorous theropods the Therizinosaurs and a lovely portrait of Nasutoceratops.

http://www.eartharchives.org/articles/o ... old-rocks/

http://www.eartharchives.org/articles/d ... th-knives/

http://orig04.deviantart.net/31fd/f/201 ... b0ba9k.jpg

Now that 'Spring' has arrived my time will be left to my evenings, but I'll enjoy these pages when it's monsoon season here and I've nothing worth while to do.
Nice image of that 'Nasutoceratops' ...

nasutoceratops.jpg

Thank you for replying, I am very glad you enjoy the thread.

[Keyser]

A few recent articles on animal intelligence that may be of interest.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/ar ... nk/476364/

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/ar ... ws/508745/

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/arc ... lz/520089/

https://phys.org/news/2017-03-biologist ... range.html

[Keyser]

A few recent palaeo stories that may be of interest.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-n ... 180962602/

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-n ... 180962604/

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/la ... long-neck/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017 ... -year-old/

[bella.vita]

I am not sure if it's okay to post this here, but this is amazing:

https://www.facebook.com/divingdeepmovi ... nref=story

[Keyser]

I am not sure if it's okay to post this here, but this is amazing:

https://www.facebook.com/divingdeepmovi ... nref=story

Wonderful stuff - nearly as interesting as those shoes!

Thanks for that.

The dinosaur family tree is getting a huge shake up according to a controversial but very interesting new paper.

https://phys.org/news/2017-03-roots-din ... -tree.html

http://www.eartharchives.org/articles/c ... -be-wrong/

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/arc ... re/520338/

https://www.researchgate.net/blog/post/ ... amily-tree

[Keyser]

Is there life on Europa?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-38925601

[Keyser]

A few recent palaeo articles.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-new ... 180962640/

http://www.gotscience.org/2017/03/dinos ... aurus-rex/

http://www.eartharchives.org/articles/l ... t-raptors/

[Keyser]

The debate will no doubt rumble on for a long while yet.

I always find the Broome Titanosaur footprint remarkable because sauropods had very small feet for their unmatchable size and at 1.7 metres long it is simply gigantic.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-new ... 180962680/

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-27/w ... wa/8391098

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-39405167

We are talking of animals in the 50-60 metre and 150-200 ton range (at least) but the only bone we have on an animal of this scale (the fabled Amphicoelias vertebra is long gone) is now the gigantic cervical from a 50 metre fully mature adult Barosaurus - time will tell if any more complete remains of the behemoths who made the tracks at broome and others supersize footprints (at Plagne for example) will ever be found.

This section on the Sauropod Vertebra Picture Of The Week is very interesting for those who would wish to explore the topic further.

https://svpow.com/category/size/

Here is an old article (from 2009) on the subject of such footprints.

https://svpow.com/2009/10/13/how-big-we ... ackmakers/

[Keyser]

The secrets to animal longevity and the history of the microscope.

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170330 ... -centuries

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-n ... 180962725/

The new tyrannosaur species Daspletosaurus horneri shows evidence for anagenesis and a crocodile-like facial sensory system.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017 ... n-science/

http://www.livescience.com/58474-new-ty ... -lips.html

http://www.livescience.com/58476-photos ... osaur.html

https://www.seeker.com/earth/animals/ne ... rannosaurs

The paper.

http://www.nature.com/articles/srep44942



The long reign of the Ichthyosaurs.

http://www.nature.com/news/how-giant-ma ... as-1.21722



Last but by no means least - finally the new description of Utahraptor has been published and it turns out to have been be a true monster - just incredibly robust and I would argue the most heavily armoured terrestrial predator for it's size (6 metres or so without the feathers) of all time.

http://www.skeletaldrawing.com/home/at- ... utahraptor

[Keyser]

A few recent palaeo stories.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/da ... 180962472/

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/ ... OP-09Lyu03

http://www.livescience.com/58529-fossil ... -cell.html

Young Rexy get's her teeth cleaned.