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January 27 2012
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January 17 2012
Antony and the Johnsons – Hope There's Someone - http://www.last.fm/music...
January 15 2012
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January 09 2012
Myomancy and the FDA - http://www.science20.com/fossil_...
Calcium Carbonate: Mother Natures Little Helper - http://www.science20.com/fossil_...
Ying Yang: Fossils
January 08 2012
January 07 2012
xplosives Molded into Lobsters! In Adventures in Chemistry, chemist Julie T. Millard tells an amusing story about her late father, Ben Millard, a captain in the British Army who was part of Churchill's SOE (Special Operations Executive). Working to disrupt German supply and communication lines, Millard's research team molded plastic explosives...
January 06 2012
On Nymphs and Satrys: Orchids - http://www.science20.com/fossil_...
Ancient Perfection: Dragonflies - http://www.science20.com/fossil_...
The islands of the Aegean are peaks of underwater mountains that extend out from the mainland. Crete is the last of this range and boasts a diverse beauty from its high mountains of Psiloritis, Lefka Ori, Dikti, to its ocean caressed pink sand beaches. Much of the island of Crete is Miocene and filled with fossil mollusks, bivalves, gastropods who...
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Much of the island of Crete is Miocene and filled with fossil mollusks, bivalves, gastropods who lived 5 to 23 million years ago in warm, tropical seas. Aside from marine deposits, the island boasts some of the best vertebrate finds, including the remains of Deinotherium giganteum, a massive 8 million-year-old mammal and primative relative of the elephants roaming the Earth today. With an enormous large nasal opening at the centre of his skull, presumably to house a rather largish trunk, Deinotherium may be the inspiration behind the myth of the Cyclops, the one-eyed giant from Homer's famous Odyssey. - Fossil Huntress
The ancestors of the dwarf elephants that once inhabited Crete, and Malta too, presumably, migrated from Africa, when the Strait of Gibraltar closed up, drying up much of the Mediterranean. - Fossil Huntress
A Sparkler Lights the Night: 366 Creative Project
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