Don't cry for Tyrannosaurus rex and its teensy-weensy arms. It was in good company in the dinosaur kingdom with a recently discovered new species found in Madagascar. After a nearly 10-year dino drought on the island, two researchers uncovered the Dahalokely tokana, a creature with big back legs and itsy-bitsy front arms.The critter was about as tall as a human male, but had a length of 9 to 14 feet. What helped the researchers peg it as a new species were some unique characteristics of the vertebrae, including the shape of cavities on the side. For dinosaur species, that's a lot like finding a fingerprint.
Besides being a new species, Dahalokely is also helping to fill in some puzzling gaps in the fossil record for Madagascar. "We had always suspected that abelisauroids were in Madagascar 90 million years ago, because they were also found in younger rocks on the island. Dahalokely nicely confirms this hypothesis," said project leader Andrew Farke, curator of paleontology at the Alf Museum.Farke and Joe Sertich, curator at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, published their findings in PLOS ONE. They also managed to write my all-time favorite line from a scientific paper abstract while describing the new dino: "Autapomorphies include a prominently convex prezygoepipophyseal lamina on cervical vertebrae and a divided infraprezygapophyseal fossa through the mid-dorsal region, among others." Sweet!
The meat-eating Dahalokely lived about 90 million years ago, way back when Madagascar and India were connected, leading to speculation that the dino could be an ancestor to animals in both places. "The bones known so far preserve an intriguing mix of features found in dinosaurs from both Madagascar and India," says a report from the Alf Museum.There is a certain art to naming a dinosaur. "Dahalokely tokana" means "lonely little bandit." Aw. It makes me want to take it home and care for it, except that it would eat my cats for breakfast.Raul, her first-born son, was a "tall, dark and handsome" young man who was extraordinarily close to his mother, Vasquez said. The two worked together at Vigilante Plumbing on Douglass Street. Raul loved playing basketball and teaching the game to younger kids on his close-knit block.He was 21 when he was shot for unknown reasons by an assailant who was never caught."He was a loving son, a loving brother," Vasquez said. "All the guys loved him, but unfortunately there was someone out there who did not love him."
2013年4月27日 星期六
2013年4月25日 星期四
A new meat-loving dinosaur
A new meat-loving dinosaur, "Lonely Small Bandit," has helped fill a big gap in Madagascar's dinosaur records.The dinosaur, whose scientific name is Dahalokely tokana is the first new species of dino from the island country in nearly a decade.Before this discovery, dinosaurs that lived 165 million years ago and 70 million years ago were known from the region. This left a pretty big gap, which the latest find helps to fill.As an abelisauroid,Aircraft Round Moon-Outer Space Model it tromped around on two legs and had two tiny arms a/la T. rex. Its common name comes from the fact that it probably hunted and scavenged any meat it could find at a time when Madagascar and India were connected, yet isolated from other continents.
"We had always suspected that abelisauroids were in Madagascar 90 million years ago, because they were also found in younger rocks on the island," project leader Andrew Farke said in a press release. "Dahalokely nicely confirms this hypothesis. But, the fossils of Dahalokely are tantalizingly incomplete Carbohydrate Inversion-Robot Model — there is so much more we want to know. Was Dahalokely closely related to later abelisauroids on Madagascar, or did it die out without descendants?"What we do know is that Lonely Small Bandit measured between 9 and 14 feet long. The accompanying image shows how it would have measured up next to an average-sized person. Thankfully we were not around then to participate in such an actual stand off.
The image reveals where recovered bones for the dino would have been in its body. The shape of some cavities on the side of its vertebrae were found to be unlike those of any other dinosaur. Other fossil features present an interesting mix of characteristics found in dinos from both India and Madagascar.Geographical evidence indicates that Madagascar and India separated around 88 million years ago, not too long after Little Small Bandit died out. Remains of the dino were found near the city of Antsiranana in northernmost Madagascar.
"We had always suspected that abelisauroids were in Madagascar 90 million years ago, because they were also found in younger rocks on the island," project leader Andrew Farke said in a press release. "Dahalokely nicely confirms this hypothesis. But, the fossils of Dahalokely are tantalizingly incomplete Carbohydrate Inversion-Robot Model — there is so much more we want to know. Was Dahalokely closely related to later abelisauroids on Madagascar, or did it die out without descendants?"What we do know is that Lonely Small Bandit measured between 9 and 14 feet long. The accompanying image shows how it would have measured up next to an average-sized person. Thankfully we were not around then to participate in such an actual stand off.
The image reveals where recovered bones for the dino would have been in its body. The shape of some cavities on the side of its vertebrae were found to be unlike those of any other dinosaur. Other fossil features present an interesting mix of characteristics found in dinos from both India and Madagascar.Geographical evidence indicates that Madagascar and India separated around 88 million years ago, not too long after Little Small Bandit died out. Remains of the dino were found near the city of Antsiranana in northernmost Madagascar.
2013年4月21日 星期日
Bay County's Humane Society and Animal Control
Bay County Executive Tom Hickner said it best at a recent county Board of Commissioners meeting: "We need to try to work together rather than have what we are doing with confrontational situations rather than compromise." Both sides raise some legitimate issues. But, like most government operations, change ultimately may come down to funding. You can't house more animals until they are adopted if you don't have money to maintain a facility adequate to house them.
There needs to more discussion on the cost of implementing such a big program. The time also is overdue for both sides to get together and get some input from folks that have a good no-kill program. That way, they can get all their respective questions answered at once and figure out what needs to be done to move toward a no-kill goal.Animal Control Director Mike Halstead said Bay County in 2012 took in 2,091 cats and 1,296 dogs, plus one ferret, one guinea pig, one pot-bellied pig, 10 rabbits and 15 parakeets, for a total of 3,415 animals. Bay County adopted out 289 cats and 440 dogs, with an additional 138 dogs transferred to another entity.
Bay County euthanized 1,699 cats, 247 at their owners' request, and 257 dogs, 130 of them at their owners' request, according to the shelter's annual report to the state Department of Agriculture.Of the other animals, all 15 parakeets, seven rabbits, the ferret and the pot-bellied pig were adopted. Three rabbits and the guinea pig were euthanized.The figures show Bay County Animal Control's save rate was at 33.61 percent in 2011, an increase from 2010's rate of 23.48 percent, Halstead said. The improvement is nice, but not enough.
There needs to more discussion on the cost of implementing such a big program. The time also is overdue for both sides to get together and get some input from folks that have a good no-kill program. That way, they can get all their respective questions answered at once and figure out what needs to be done to move toward a no-kill goal.Animal Control Director Mike Halstead said Bay County in 2012 took in 2,091 cats and 1,296 dogs, plus one ferret, one guinea pig, one pot-bellied pig, 10 rabbits and 15 parakeets, for a total of 3,415 animals. Bay County adopted out 289 cats and 440 dogs, with an additional 138 dogs transferred to another entity.
Bay County euthanized 1,699 cats, 247 at their owners' request, and 257 dogs, 130 of them at their owners' request, according to the shelter's annual report to the state Department of Agriculture.Of the other animals, all 15 parakeets, seven rabbits, the ferret and the pot-bellied pig were adopted. Three rabbits and the guinea pig were euthanized.The figures show Bay County Animal Control's save rate was at 33.61 percent in 2011, an increase from 2010's rate of 23.48 percent, Halstead said. The improvement is nice, but not enough.
2013年4月17日 星期三
The animal world likes to self-medicate
The use of medicine can no longer be considered a solely human trait, if it ever was. An ever-growing list of animals use various chemicals to self-medicate and to treat peers and offspring, usually to fight off and prevent infection.And this list runs the gamut, with the usual suspects — primates chewing on medicinal herbs — as well as some more surprising drug-takers, such as fruit flies, Puppet Robot Model-Science& Technology Museum Product ants and butterflies, a new study finds.
Previously, scientists thought such behavior was unique to primates and more intelligent animals, where self-medication could be learned and passed on from parents to offspring. But according to the study scientists, who examined recent research in the field, animals from insects to chimpanzees may self-medicate as an innate response to parasites and perhaps for other reasons as well.Medication can be taken either in response to an active infection or to prevent future parasitic attacks of an animal or its offspring, according to the paper, Fiberglass Animals Mammoth-Display Item published online Thursday in the journal Science.
Fruit flies, for example, will lay their eggs in more alcoholic fruit when parasitic wasps are hanging around, said Todd Schlenke, an Emory researcher who wasn't involved in the review paper. "In the flies, increased blood-alcohol content causes the wasp maggot parasites living in their blood to die in a particularly gruesome way, by having their internal organs evert outside their bodies through their anuses," Schlenke told LiveScience.Animal medicine can be useful to humans in a variety of ways. For instance, bees collect plant resins with antifungal and antimicrobial properties and bring it back to their hives to help them fight infection. Beekeepers have selected against this trait since resin is sticky and hard to work with; this has likely made bees more prone to infection, de Roode said.
Previously, scientists thought such behavior was unique to primates and more intelligent animals, where self-medication could be learned and passed on from parents to offspring. But according to the study scientists, who examined recent research in the field, animals from insects to chimpanzees may self-medicate as an innate response to parasites and perhaps for other reasons as well.Medication can be taken either in response to an active infection or to prevent future parasitic attacks of an animal or its offspring, according to the paper, Fiberglass Animals Mammoth-Display Item published online Thursday in the journal Science.
Fruit flies, for example, will lay their eggs in more alcoholic fruit when parasitic wasps are hanging around, said Todd Schlenke, an Emory researcher who wasn't involved in the review paper. "In the flies, increased blood-alcohol content causes the wasp maggot parasites living in their blood to die in a particularly gruesome way, by having their internal organs evert outside their bodies through their anuses," Schlenke told LiveScience.Animal medicine can be useful to humans in a variety of ways. For instance, bees collect plant resins with antifungal and antimicrobial properties and bring it back to their hives to help them fight infection. Beekeepers have selected against this trait since resin is sticky and hard to work with; this has likely made bees more prone to infection, de Roode said.
2013年4月14日 星期日
Former vet charged with animal cruelty
There are new developments in the case of the former veterinarian found with dozens of dogs inside her home. First, Debra Clopton was was arrested on drug charges; now she faces of long list of animal-cruelty charges. A criminal complaint outlines dozens of counts of misdemeanor animal cruelty, one count for each of the 48 dogs taken from one property , a roundup that has overwhelmed the Santa Fe Animal Shelter.
If convicted on all counts, Clopton faces almost 48 years in prison. Forty-five dogs from one cruelty case are still at the Santa Fe Animal Shelter. In the last week, three others had to be euthanized. They were all seized from Clopton's Edgewood home. "The information that we had, the evaluation of the animals, it was deemed more appropriate that we file these charges," said Major Ken Johnson of the Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office.
Last week, sheriff's deputies served a warrant to seize the dogs, some of which appeared to have health issues. One group of seven pups were just a week old when they were brought there. Santa Fe County ordinance allows no more than 10 dogs. Johnson described the conditions at the home as filthy. Shelter officials said so far, they have spent more than $7,000 to care for the dogs for the last eight days.
"Forty-eight dogs coming in our door under any circumstance would be a lot, but 48 dogs that we have to hold longer than the average time, which is generally between five and seven days, is a huge stressor," shelter Executive Director Mary Martin said.
If convicted on all counts, Clopton faces almost 48 years in prison. Forty-five dogs from one cruelty case are still at the Santa Fe Animal Shelter. In the last week, three others had to be euthanized. They were all seized from Clopton's Edgewood home. "The information that we had, the evaluation of the animals, it was deemed more appropriate that we file these charges," said Major Ken Johnson of the Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office.
Last week, sheriff's deputies served a warrant to seize the dogs, some of which appeared to have health issues. One group of seven pups were just a week old when they were brought there. Santa Fe County ordinance allows no more than 10 dogs. Johnson described the conditions at the home as filthy. Shelter officials said so far, they have spent more than $7,000 to care for the dogs for the last eight days.
"Forty-eight dogs coming in our door under any circumstance would be a lot, but 48 dogs that we have to hold longer than the average time, which is generally between five and seven days, is a huge stressor," shelter Executive Director Mary Martin said.
Fossilized tracks show dinosaurs could swim
One hundred million years ago, a fierce carnivorous dinosaur chased a smaller dinosaur all the way to the river bank. Because of its fear of water, the predator stopped, as its prey jumped into the water and swam away. So the story would go in popular science literature, but a carnivorous dinosaur that lived somewhere in the mountainous area of southwestern Sichuan province did not stop. It jumped into the water and left a 15-meter track of claw marks.
On Monday, Chinese scientists announced that they found swim tracks of a carnivorous dinosaur, producing strong evidence that two-legged dinosaurs were good swimmers.The swim tracks found on a mountain in Zhaojue county, Sichuan, are the first well-preserved example of a swimming carnivorous dinosaur in Asia, and an addition to the scant examples of such tracks being found anywhere. The research was published in Chinese Science Bulletin on Monday. "Dinosaur swim tracks have been found in Britain, Poland, the United States and Spain. Compared with earlier tracks, ours is special because it is well preserved and rather long," said Xing Lida, an author of the research.
"I suddenly had a flash when I saw the claw prints: every footprint was formed of three parallel claw marks, which extend all the way up along the rock ledge," Xing said. "The dinosaur's claw marks show it was swimming along in this river and just its tiptoes were touching bottom," said Scott W. Persons IV, a co-author of the paper. Based on the claw marks, which cover a distance of 15 meters, the researchers infer that the dinosaur swam with coordinated leg movements. "The dinosaur swims by alternating movements of its hind legs, which push it forward like oars," said Martin Lockley, a co-author from the US. "Swimming could be the born ability of dinosaurs, just like dogs'," he said. Worldwide, the first compelling evidence of dinosaurs being able to swim was discovered in 2007, when 12 footprints were found in the bed of an ancient lake in northern Spain.
On Monday, Chinese scientists announced that they found swim tracks of a carnivorous dinosaur, producing strong evidence that two-legged dinosaurs were good swimmers.The swim tracks found on a mountain in Zhaojue county, Sichuan, are the first well-preserved example of a swimming carnivorous dinosaur in Asia, and an addition to the scant examples of such tracks being found anywhere. The research was published in Chinese Science Bulletin on Monday. "Dinosaur swim tracks have been found in Britain, Poland, the United States and Spain. Compared with earlier tracks, ours is special because it is well preserved and rather long," said Xing Lida, an author of the research.
"I suddenly had a flash when I saw the claw prints: every footprint was formed of three parallel claw marks, which extend all the way up along the rock ledge," Xing said. "The dinosaur's claw marks show it was swimming along in this river and just its tiptoes were touching bottom," said Scott W. Persons IV, a co-author of the paper. Based on the claw marks, which cover a distance of 15 meters, the researchers infer that the dinosaur swam with coordinated leg movements. "The dinosaur swims by alternating movements of its hind legs, which push it forward like oars," said Martin Lockley, a co-author from the US. "Swimming could be the born ability of dinosaurs, just like dogs'," he said. Worldwide, the first compelling evidence of dinosaurs being able to swim was discovered in 2007, when 12 footprints were found in the bed of an ancient lake in northern Spain.
Fossilized tracks show dinosaurs could swim
One hundred million years ago, a fierce carnivorous dinosaur chased a smaller dinosaur all the way to the river bank. Because of its fear of water, the predator stopped, as its prey jumped into the water and swam away. So the story would go in popular science literature, but a carnivorous dinosaur that lived somewhere in the mountainous area of southwestern Sichuan province did not stop. It jumped into the water and left a 15-meter track of claw marks.
On Monday, Chinese scientists announced that they found swim tracks of a carnivorous dinosaur, producing strong evidence that two-legged dinosaurs were good swimmers.The swim tracks found on a mountain in Zhaojue county, Sichuan, are the first well-preserved example of a swimming carnivorous dinosaur in Asia, and an addition to the scant examples of such tracks being found anywhere. The research was published in Chinese Science Bulletin on Monday. "Dinosaur swim tracks have been found in Britain, Poland, the United States and Spain. Compared with earlier tracks, ours is special because it is well preserved and rather long," said Xing Lida, an author of the research.
"I suddenly had a flash when I saw the claw prints: every footprint was formed of three parallel claw marks, which extend all the way up along the rock ledge," Xing said. "The dinosaur's claw marks show it was swimming along in this river and just its tiptoes were touching bottom," said Scott W. Persons IV, a co-author of the paper. Based on the claw marks, which cover a distance of 15 meters, the researchers infer that the dinosaur swam with coordinated leg movements. "The dinosaur swims by alternating movements of its hind legs, which push it forward like oars," said Martin Lockley, a co-author from the US. "Swimming could be the born ability of dinosaurs, just like dogs'," he said. Worldwide, the first compelling evidence of dinosaurs being able to swim was discovered in 2007, when 12 footprints were found in the bed of an ancient lake in northern Spain.
On Monday, Chinese scientists announced that they found swim tracks of a carnivorous dinosaur, producing strong evidence that two-legged dinosaurs were good swimmers.The swim tracks found on a mountain in Zhaojue county, Sichuan, are the first well-preserved example of a swimming carnivorous dinosaur in Asia, and an addition to the scant examples of such tracks being found anywhere. The research was published in Chinese Science Bulletin on Monday. "Dinosaur swim tracks have been found in Britain, Poland, the United States and Spain. Compared with earlier tracks, ours is special because it is well preserved and rather long," said Xing Lida, an author of the research.
"I suddenly had a flash when I saw the claw prints: every footprint was formed of three parallel claw marks, which extend all the way up along the rock ledge," Xing said. "The dinosaur's claw marks show it was swimming along in this river and just its tiptoes were touching bottom," said Scott W. Persons IV, a co-author of the paper. Based on the claw marks, which cover a distance of 15 meters, the researchers infer that the dinosaur swam with coordinated leg movements. "The dinosaur swims by alternating movements of its hind legs, which push it forward like oars," said Martin Lockley, a co-author from the US. "Swimming could be the born ability of dinosaurs, just like dogs'," he said. Worldwide, the first compelling evidence of dinosaurs being able to swim was discovered in 2007, when 12 footprints were found in the bed of an ancient lake in northern Spain.
2013年4月11日 星期四
Thai Beverage Man Tan Passakornnatee Is On a Mission
We built a day around the 10-mile ride down the Hozu, starting with a short train ride just outside the city and ending in the lovely neighborhood of Arashiyama. Guides pole fiberglass boats seating about 20 people through a deep gorge, where my 8-year-old son spotted turtles, snakes and other animals.
"From complete operational 100-year-old hand-carved carousels, to individual hand-carved antique horses and menagerie figures, there are only so many of theses antiques that remain." Horenberger concludes. "You can never build new antiques, but we are building three new carousels right now and two of them will be built the traditional way, the same as they were 100 years ago, with gear driven mechanisms, wood frames and with all of the animals hand-carved out of bass wood, one animal at a time."
As he clowns around for a photo shoot in front of the giant fiberglass animals adorning his restaurant compound off of tony Thonglor Road, Tan Passakornnatee is sporting vivid yellow pants and a polka-dot shirt, his customary style for addressing college students or business groups. Tan made one fortune, in real estate and wedding-photo studios, Dinosaur Fossil Replica Landscape in Museum and then lost it in the 1997 financial turmoil. He made another with Oishi and now he’s building a third.
I go back a long way with Gordmans Stores. When I was a little kid, the local Richman Gordman had a kids play area with these huge fiberglass animals that you could climb on/through, slide down, and otherwise amuse yourself with. The play area was always pretty full, Garden Ornament-Tyrannosaurus Skeleton and I think Richman Gordman was locally popular if for no other reason than mothers could do some shopping while their shrieking hellions amused themselves without bothering other shoppers.
"From complete operational 100-year-old hand-carved carousels, to individual hand-carved antique horses and menagerie figures, there are only so many of theses antiques that remain." Horenberger concludes. "You can never build new antiques, but we are building three new carousels right now and two of them will be built the traditional way, the same as they were 100 years ago, with gear driven mechanisms, wood frames and with all of the animals hand-carved out of bass wood, one animal at a time."
As he clowns around for a photo shoot in front of the giant fiberglass animals adorning his restaurant compound off of tony Thonglor Road, Tan Passakornnatee is sporting vivid yellow pants and a polka-dot shirt, his customary style for addressing college students or business groups. Tan made one fortune, in real estate and wedding-photo studios, Dinosaur Fossil Replica Landscape in Museum and then lost it in the 1997 financial turmoil. He made another with Oishi and now he’s building a third.
I go back a long way with Gordmans Stores. When I was a little kid, the local Richman Gordman had a kids play area with these huge fiberglass animals that you could climb on/through, slide down, and otherwise amuse yourself with. The play area was always pretty full, Garden Ornament-Tyrannosaurus Skeleton and I think Richman Gordman was locally popular if for no other reason than mothers could do some shopping while their shrieking hellions amused themselves without bothering other shoppers.
2013年4月7日 星期日
Realistic dinosaurs and their poop
The pair used data from known fossil models to reconstruct the dinosaurs' locomotive anatomies and musculoskeletal features. These models were then pushed to their limits in the GaitSym program, which ran each dinosaur's model through different combinations of muscle activation patterns. Patterns that caused the models to falter were abandoned, while simulations where the dinosaur ran at least 15 meters were investigated more thoroughly.
Frankly, those were all the words Grantland required about a 20-year-old dinosaur movie. But on April 5, Jurassic Park is returning to theaters in 3-D. And that, Dr. Grant, is what we call a "peg." So here are three more nerdy footnotes that I've run across.
Where'd Michael Crichton get the idea to write Jurassic Park? The first place to look is Arthur Conan Doyle's novel The Lost World (1912), which is about scientists searching for dinosaurs in Latin America. Conan Doyle — who, like Crichton, had a background in medicine — was the author's hero. Crichton once said, "Sometimes I think I've devoted my life to rewriting Conan Doyle in different ways."
Finally, there's one scene that never made it into Steven Spielberg's movie. Early in the film, Lex, the young girl, was supposed to ride on the back of a baby triceratops. The scene was storyboarded, and effects man Stan Winston worked on a model.
It doesn't look like a model, or a beast manufactured in a computer, or one of those charming, stilted monsters that staggered across movie screens from the time of the original King Kong — who battled a stop-action dinosaur in the 1933 film — to the days when effects legend Ray Harryhausen created "Dynamation" monsters like Mighty Joe Young or the Cyclops that the hero battles in The 7th Voyage of Sinbad.
It looks like a brachiosaurus, just as the Tyrannosaurus Rex that destroys a Ford Explorer, and the velociraptors that chase children through an abandoned building are the most persuasively realistic dinosaurs ever seen. When Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park came out in 1993, it changed the way we saw the prehistoric world, and the way movies could be made.
Frankly, those were all the words Grantland required about a 20-year-old dinosaur movie. But on April 5, Jurassic Park is returning to theaters in 3-D. And that, Dr. Grant, is what we call a "peg." So here are three more nerdy footnotes that I've run across.
Where'd Michael Crichton get the idea to write Jurassic Park? The first place to look is Arthur Conan Doyle's novel The Lost World (1912), which is about scientists searching for dinosaurs in Latin America. Conan Doyle — who, like Crichton, had a background in medicine — was the author's hero. Crichton once said, "Sometimes I think I've devoted my life to rewriting Conan Doyle in different ways."
Finally, there's one scene that never made it into Steven Spielberg's movie. Early in the film, Lex, the young girl, was supposed to ride on the back of a baby triceratops. The scene was storyboarded, and effects man Stan Winston worked on a model.
It doesn't look like a model, or a beast manufactured in a computer, or one of those charming, stilted monsters that staggered across movie screens from the time of the original King Kong — who battled a stop-action dinosaur in the 1933 film — to the days when effects legend Ray Harryhausen created "Dynamation" monsters like Mighty Joe Young or the Cyclops that the hero battles in The 7th Voyage of Sinbad.
It looks like a brachiosaurus, just as the Tyrannosaurus Rex that destroys a Ford Explorer, and the velociraptors that chase children through an abandoned building are the most persuasively realistic dinosaurs ever seen. When Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park came out in 1993, it changed the way we saw the prehistoric world, and the way movies could be made.
2013年4月3日 星期三
How Did Dinosaurs Do It
A massively multiplayer Grand Theft Auto-style game from David Jones, creator of the billion-dollar Grand Theft Auto franchise, looked like a home run on paper. An open world, very slick character customization, and emergent gameplay where any criminal activity immediately flagged a proportional response from legalized vigilantes just couldn't lose.
All Points Bulletin's great ideas crashed headfirst into a disastrous execution anchored to a fading dinosaur of a business model — the monthly subscription fee. Before even making it to the three-month mark, Realtime went into administration and turned the APB servers off, effectively killing the game on September 16, 2010.
Sadly, no sex tapes exist to shed light on the sex lives of dinosaurs, but fossil evidence has revealed a few facts about their procreative habits. Research has found, Life Size Dimetrodon Model for example, that dinosaurs were sexually active before reaching full physical maturity, not unlike human teenagers.
And a recent study suggests that dinosaurs -- like their avian relatives -- had feathered tails that they used in courtship displays to attract a mate.
But nobody really knows just how endowed male dinosaurs were, which makes questions about their sexual habits mere guesswork. Some experts have speculated that a large penis may have made the missionary position unnecessary for dino-copulation.
Massive volcanic eruptions can clearly create global destruction by dimming sunlight, Artificial Parasaurolophus-Dinosaurs Model causing sudden climate swings and acidifying the ocean. But it might be a bit harder to see how the impact of a large rock from space can reach into habitats halfway around the globe. Yet that's exactly what we think happened during the extinction that killed off all the non-avian dinosaurs. A paper in the Journal of Geophysical Research reviews the evidence for what its authors consider the most plausible model for global mayhem caused by the impact: its debris lit all the world's forests on fire at once.
All Points Bulletin's great ideas crashed headfirst into a disastrous execution anchored to a fading dinosaur of a business model — the monthly subscription fee. Before even making it to the three-month mark, Realtime went into administration and turned the APB servers off, effectively killing the game on September 16, 2010.
Sadly, no sex tapes exist to shed light on the sex lives of dinosaurs, but fossil evidence has revealed a few facts about their procreative habits. Research has found, Life Size Dimetrodon Model for example, that dinosaurs were sexually active before reaching full physical maturity, not unlike human teenagers.
And a recent study suggests that dinosaurs -- like their avian relatives -- had feathered tails that they used in courtship displays to attract a mate.
But nobody really knows just how endowed male dinosaurs were, which makes questions about their sexual habits mere guesswork. Some experts have speculated that a large penis may have made the missionary position unnecessary for dino-copulation.
Massive volcanic eruptions can clearly create global destruction by dimming sunlight, Artificial Parasaurolophus-Dinosaurs Model causing sudden climate swings and acidifying the ocean. But it might be a bit harder to see how the impact of a large rock from space can reach into habitats halfway around the globe. Yet that's exactly what we think happened during the extinction that killed off all the non-avian dinosaurs. A paper in the Journal of Geophysical Research reviews the evidence for what its authors consider the most plausible model for global mayhem caused by the impact: its debris lit all the world's forests on fire at once.
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