The Science And Nature Thread - All Welcome

[Keyser]

Feathers, feathers, feathers - where are they?

My God the latest film is shit.

Bulk, colours, behaviour, intelligence.

Thanks Jurassic World 2 to go to the 1950's and before.

Shame on you.

None of it means shit to anyone else- but I like to vent sometimes.

Pssst, it’s fiction.

I know .

But the original was wonderful for the time and changed the world's perceptions of dinosaurs as big dumb lizards.

The animals in the latest film are utterly appalling.

Bah!

Humbug!

Sorry Arthur - even alien Firstborn Gods get it wrong sometimes.

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

[Keyser]

A beautiful pencil depiction of a battle between a maximum size Architeuthis and a bull Cachalot.

[Keyser]

The two largest theropods - runner up is the massive Carcharadontsaurid Giganotosaurus and first is The King of the Tyrant reptiles.

https://pre00.deviantart.net/feb6/th/pr ... ao6aky.png

https://pre00.deviantart.net/467e/th/pr ... alfsho.png

[Keyser]

The King tries to impress The Queen with a colourful mating dance.

https://img00.deviantart.net/c8bb/i/201 ... cb3p39.png

[Minime]

A Rattlesnake Tarantula!!

NO!!!

https://pickle.nine.com.au/2018/06/29/1 ... -tarantula



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99NpCPjtJ78


That's my hols to Australia cancelled lol

[Keyser]

A Rattlesnake Tarantula!!

NO!!!

https://pickle.nine.com.au/2018/06/29/1 ... -tarantula



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99NpCPjtJ78


That's my hols to Australia cancelled lol

That's great!

I think you should still go though.

[Keyser]

Yet more evidence of Corvid genius.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-44654098

[Keyser]

Yet more evidence of Corvid genius.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-44654098

[Keyser]

Nice reconstruction of male Triceratops in display colours.

Compare that to the concrete and shit coloured 1950's dinosaurs of Jurassic World 2.

[Keyser]

The 50th anniversary trailer for one of the greatest films ever made.

[Punk]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-m ... e-44670092

A couple have described the "educational if scary" moment thousands of bees filled their garden early on Saturday morning.

Brian and Kathryn Yates from Liverpool told the BBC they are feeling fine but shocked after the incident.

Beekeeper Dave Woods, who arrived to help the couple, explained that the insects were looking for a new home.

"During a heatwave, bees multiply more and often outgrow their hives", Mr Woods said.

'Something out of a horror movie'
Mr and Mrs Yates were hanging washing out to dry in their garden at around 09:00 BST when they "heard a noise like a machine".

"I thought if it were insects it would be like something out of a horror movie," said Mr Yates.

I encountered a swarm of bees the other spring, called a beekeeper who came round with a brick and a box that used to have 5 reams of paper in it, she placed the brick by the swarm and then placed the empty box above the bees so they could fly up into the box. After 30 minutes the 5,000 odd bees had moved into their new home, and one chuffed bee keeper had 5,000 free honey bees. It was a very interesting couple of hours watching those bees. They had been inside a wall of a 1st floor flat in the block next to mine.

[Keyser]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-44670092

A couple have described the "educational if scary" moment thousands of bees filled their garden early on Saturday morning.

Brian and Kathryn Yates from Liverpool told the BBC they are feeling fine but shocked after the incident.

Beekeeper Dave Woods, who arrived to help the couple, explained that the insects were looking for a new home.

"During a heatwave, bees multiply more and often outgrow their hives", Mr Woods said.

'Something out of a horror movie'
Mr and Mrs Yates were hanging washing out to dry in their garden at around 09:00 BST when they "heard a noise like a machine".

"I thought if it were insects it would be like something out of a horror movie," said Mr Yates.

I encountered a swarm of bees the other spring, called a beekeeper who came round with a brick and a box that used to have 5 reams of paper in it, she placed the brick by the swarm and then placed the empty box above the bees so they could fly up into the box. After 30 minutes the 5,000 odd bees had moved into their new home, and one chuffed bee keeper had 5,000 free honey bees. It was a very interesting couple of hours watching those bees. They had been inside a wall of a 1st floor flat in the block next to mine.

Highly intelligent little animals - and one of the first to be studied to show that mammals are not the superior beings we think we are.

All clades have their cognitive superstars - and many do not need billions of neurons to be geniuses - it the quality and number of connections that count (look at Portia).

[Guest]

Nice reconstruction of male Triceratops in display colours.

Compare that to the concrete and shit coloured 1950's dinosaurs of Jurassic World 2.

That's clearly been given the colours of a toucan.

Are we saying dinosaurs are basically birds now?

And why would dinosaurs, most of which don't fly, need feathers exactly?

I get the feeling these scientists are just making stuff up as they go along, they haven't really got a clue.

[Punk]

I'm a ten minute walk from the Horniman Museum and they have a large hive encased in glass. One can see the bees going about their business, after which they leave through a long transparent pipe towards the museum gardens.



Hours of fun for children.

[Keyser]

Nice reconstruction of male Triceratops in display colours.

Compare that to the concrete and shit coloured 1950's dinosaurs of Jurassic World 2.

That's clearly been given the colours of a toucan.

Are we saying dinosaurs are basically birds now?

And why would dinosaurs, most of which don't fly, need feathers exactly?

I get the feeling these scientists are just making stuff up as they go along, they haven't really got a clue.

It started as insulation and then sexual display.

Nothing more.

Scientists only deal in evidence unlike religion which bores the fuck out of me.

Quite frankly after the day I have (RIP stuff) had - I want nothing to do anything with anyone.

Good.