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STORM COMING IN - http://fossilhuntress.blogspot.com/2011...
Aug 11, 2011
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Carl Stovall Photography
Cranky kitteh.
- Alix May
Amur Leopard - Carl Stovall
It is reported that there are only 30 to 35 of these beautiful animals (amur leopards) left in the wild. They are critically endangered according to the IUCN.
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Stegoceras - Hard Hitting Dinosaurs
images of the insides of Stegoceras' fossilised skull, which reveal two layers of dense bone that encase a spongy sinus held apart by tiny struts, has led some scientists to doubt this interpretation.
Stegoceras likely ran at each other at 15 miles per hour.
Hoping to clear up the controversy, biomedical engineer Dr Eric Snively wandered down the corridor at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada to enlist the help of colleague Dr Jessica Theodor, a vertebrate palaeontologist.
The duo performed computer tomographic (CT) scans on the skulls of Stegoceras, along with a variety of modern animals, and used these bone density measurements to create 3D models of the animals' heads.
The team was then able to exert virtual stresses to test how the different skulls held up.
Compared to some of today's big hitters, such as the Northern American bighorn sheep, the Arctic musk ox and African duiker, Stegoceras ' head was able to withstand the most stress.
"The argument that they couldn't withstand the forces of head-butting seems to have been refuted by this evidence," said Dr Theodor.
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Keepers at Pocatello Zoo, Idaho, were worried when they noticed Shooter, a four-year-old elk, acting strangely at his water trough. Baffled, they watched as the animal - who is so massive some keepers are afraid to even enter his enclosure - tried to dip his hooves into his drinking trough, before attempting to dunk his whole head in the water....
The Elk was rescuing a wee marmot who had gotten trapped in his water bucket and was going to drown. H saved him. Planned it as his antlers were in the way so he pushed the wee fellow into the centre of the bucket and scooped him out with his mouth. The marmot was just fine and ran away.
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CELEBRATION OF LIGHT - http://fossilhuntress.blogspot.com/2011...
Aug 7, 2011
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CELEBRATION OF LIGHT - http://fossilhuntress.blogspot.com/2011...
Aug 7, 2011
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Huddled together while sleeping in a dog house is a litter of Canadian Eskimo Dog puppies at their residence in the town of Churchill in Manitoba, Canada. When these puppies are not sleeping, they can be very boisterous and they love to cause some trouble but being cuddled is part of their very gentle nature. Many of the Canadian Eskimo Dog...
The winner of the 2011 FEI Owner Image Competition: This is an electron micrograph of steel after a bending test, it's called "Microcanyon"
Adds electron microscope to bucketlist...
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Been nibbling at a healthy salad with yummy organic fresh greens and am now having an allergic reaction. I assume it must be to the dressing. Still hungry. Going to eat a bit of chocolate gelato guilt-free. Nice.
Tokyo Escalator - Paul McClure Photography
Coastal Navigation - Assistant Wanted (via http://friendfeed.com/fossilh...) (via http://friendfeed.com/kayakin...)
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Waterfront Property - http://fossilhuntress.blogspot.com (via http://friendfeed.com/fossilh...) (via http://friendfeed.com/kayakin...)
Very nice photos, thanks.
- Calogero Mira
Beautiful! :-)
- Mathew A. Koeneker
Todd, these ones are mine and were taken on my wee finepix. ; )
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Bountiful Bowron (via http://friendfeed.com/fossilh...) (via http://ff.im/aTgnP)
And these
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Great pictures :D
- comix aka martha
Go Play Outside (via http://friendfeed.com/travelw...) (via http://friendfeed.com/kayakin...) Rocky Mountain Series - Travel World
Beautiful.
- Kristin
Ah, that helps explain why I can't take photos like that :-) There's a kind of concentrated emotional impact that's hard to get raw.
- Todd Hoff
In Australia, the Great Ocean Road on the Southern Coast - NYTimes.com
I like the first photo, thanks a lot.
- Calogero Mira
Jealous.
- Kol Tregaskes
<3 :)
- comix aka martha
You have to be a thermostat, not a thermometer. Being transformational means setting the temperature, not reflecting it.
Louise Leakey digs for humanity's origins | Video on TED.com - http://fossilhuntress.blogspot.com/2011...
Jul 25, 2011
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Exciting!
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Fresh bounty from this morning's breakfast with Paul. Nice. ; )
JURASSIC BOUNTY: AMMONITE - http://fossilhuntress.blogspot.com/2011...
Jul 24, 2011
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I love my dog. Taking him for a walk in the rain to wash away some of today's violence. Just so sad.