It’s been hypothesized that dinosaurs exhibited the efficient pulmonary adaptations that we see in birds today, and thus were adaptively superior during a drop in atmospheric oxygen levels during the Triassic. Peter Ward wrote a book about this idea (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18604.Out_of_Thin_Air). How far…

Mesolithic hunter-gatherers apparently contributed only a small amount to modern European genetic diversity. The signal’s definitely there, it just isn’t large.

Great video. That’s a feather star, though - they never do have stems. The stemmed crinoids move as well, but it’s a lot eerier. Like a broom dragging itself along the floor by its bristles.

If you’re having anti-gravity problems, they’re just the ticket.

After she’d got her horoscope read and the auspicious dates for this treatment determined - otherwise it’s pointless.

How can anything be on the heels of a whale? Whales don’t have heels. Not even basilosaurids.

Those are all in the greys.

Its proportions aren’t similar to those of other basilosaurids, though.

Who wouldn’t be a lab mouse these days? There seems to be treatments for just about anything that can go wrong with them,

I am super into Greek myth.

This picture made it into all of the major British news outlets a few years ago as a “three-headed frog”.

You mean all of the times I’ve gone into the clinic to donate a pint of urine, they’ve just been pouring it down the drain after I left?

Not completely unexpected when so few people in modern times have any first-hand experience with animals, aside from (maybe) domestic species. Especially in China.

I’ll bet he went right back into his shell.

It may have been a deep and meaningful relationship.

The Claire North will be worth a read, if Ithaka is anything to go by.

If this is what it’s doing to the cacti, what’s happening to the rest of the desert biota? Even desert-adapted animals have to come out to forage and seek water sometime.

Sturgeon’s Rule is universal.

None of these things sound as though they’d be terribly difficult to supply. Especially the last.

Encouraging cougars to recolonize the eastern woodlands would help with the deer population.