The Science And Nature Thread - All Welcome

[Keyser]

One of the largest beetles in the world and it's massive grub.

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/201 ... ts-larvae/

The science of bullshit!

Which is a very apposite article for this forum.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-ne ... 180969062/

[Keyser]

Just musing on the bio-mechanical limits of the maximum possible mass of land animals.

Several footprints (Broome, Plagne) and the long lost remains of Amphicoelias (new paper out very soon apparently) suggest a maximum size of 60 metres or so and a weight of 150 - 200 tons for sauropods.

The massive 'French Giant' Titanosaur's largest specimen's remains (when published) may well back this up.

No matter - even relatively 'small' 37 metre long animals like Patagotitan were simply marvels of biological engineering and at least 10 times larger than any land mammal that ever lived.

https://orig00.deviantart.net/0cdc/f/20 ... c8zlgh.jpg

[Keyser]

If some form of memory is stored in RNA then perhaps that could explain the vague recollections of children claiming to have been reincarnated?

Just a thought.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-44111476

[Keyser]

How big Oviraptorosaurs nested (very carefully).

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/201 ... y-science/

https://www.livescience.com/62578-how-g ... -eggs.html

https://phys.org/news/2018-05-one-tonne ... fully.html

[Keyser]

The toughest animal on Earth takes incredibly huge shits!

https://www.livescience.com/62602-tardi ... video.html

[charlie]

The toughest animal on Earth takes incredibly huge shits!

https://www.livescience.com/62602-tardi ... video.html

Really? that's very interesting!

[Keyser]

The toughest animal on Earth takes incredibly huge shits!

https://www.livescience.com/62602-tardi ... video.html

Really? that's very interesting!

Don't read it then!

Just give it a curry and watch the shit fly!

[Keyser]

Absolutely beautiful bust of Cryolophosaurus.

[Keyser]

An excellent article on the extreme measures that the very best of humanity takes to protect Rhinos from the dregs of Homo sapiens - the poacher scum and the morons who believe in 'traditional' Chinese medicine.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science- ... 180969008/

[Keyser]

A few recent palaeo articles.

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/201 ... s-science/

https://phys.org/news/2018-05-tradition ... light.html

https://www.livescience.com/62662-large ... vania.html

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g62/T ... merica.jpg

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-44252455

[Keyser]

The Fallen Tyrant.

A beautiful and atmospheric reconstruction of the death of Sue (FMNH PR 2081).

[Keyser]

Sue getting a cheap thrill!

[Aaron_Silver]

Sue getting a cheap thrill!

I never realised you had such good bone structure

[Keyser]

Sue getting a cheap thrill!

I never realised you had such good bone structure

She must really have been a wonder to behold in life though Aaron - 12.3 metres and almost 10 tons of living sentient murder.

[Aaron_Silver]

I am not really one for dinosaurs Keyser but I do have a fantastic obsession with one of their relatives, the saltwater crocodile. Love them, they absolutely fascinate me.