Posted in Earth, Earth History, Global Warming on Aug 19th, 2008
Now, my biggest problem in life, but something that gives me great amusement and mental stimulation, is I just don’t take anything hardly as black and white when it comes to the big pictures. If I’m told something, I just store it. If it later is contradicted and just left taken for granted, I have [...]
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Here’s the headline:
New Dinosaur Discovered in Antarctica
Sounds exciting huh? I mean, visions of Jurassic Park started racing through my mind. Business ideas started popping up. Who wouldn’t want to see a dinosaur? This could be HUGE!
Alas, it’s just sloppy writing. The dinosaur isn’t all that new, it died about 190 million years ago. It wasn’t [...]
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Posted in Earth History on Apr 11th, 2005
I was perusing the Cambridge Large Volume Explosive Eruption database from a conversation I was having. It has some pretty cool background info on all the large volcanoes throughout history. One thing kinda stuck out at me:
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Posted in Earth History on Jan 13th, 2005
New fossil finds from China are painting a different picture of the mammals that lived alongside the dinosaurs during the Mesozoic era. Most mammals known from this time are thought of as relatively small, nocturnal creatures–the hunted rather than the hunters. Findings published today in the journal Nature provide the first direct evidence that [...]
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