Bugs Bunny | Rebel Rabbit (1949) | Dailymotion
Posted on 01/01/2023 4:47:33 PM PST by SunkenCiv
On the small island of Minorca, a popular European tourist destination, researchers have unearthed an enormous fossil rabbit skeleton. A recent study published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology highlights this new find off the coast of Spain. This massive rabbit, aptly named the Minorcan King of the Rabbits (Nuralagus rex), weighed in at 12 kg (26.4 lbs)! — approximately ten times the size of its extinct mainland cousin (Alilepus sp.) and six times the size of the living European rabbit, Oryctolagus cuniculus...
The rabbit king lived approximately 3-5 million years ago and may be one of the oldest known cases of the "island rule" in mammals. Simply put, the island rule states that when on islands, big animals will get smaller and small animals will get bigger. This size change on islands may be due to reduced quantities of food or lack of mainland predators. On Minorca, Nuralagus rex lived with few other vertebrate species. Some of its neighbors included a bat (Rhinolophus cf. grivensis), a large dormouse (Muscardinus cyclopeus), and the above-mentioned giant tortoise (Cherirogaster gymnesica). In the case of N. rex, the lack of predators allowed this rabbit to reach a giant size...
Instead, this rabbit was most likely a digger, searching for roots and tubers to eat. Additionally, because of lack of predators to worry about, Nuralagus rex lost visual and hearing acuity. N. rex had reduced eye socket size and reduced auditory bullae, suggesting smaller eyes and ears. So although it might be assumed that this rabbit must have had huge ears, that would be wrong; N. rex had relatively diminutive ears for its size.
(Excerpt) Read more at phys.org ...
They didn’t. Tante and Opa just didn’t believe they existed. Ignorance being bliss, he continued to make furniture in his workshop at the back of the house, and she buried potatoes in the cellar, next to the barrel of sauerkraut. A mat over the cellar door hid it’s exitance, and no one would have thought to search in the bathroom cupboard for that bucket of honey from her bees. Want to survive a war? Live in the country.
Maybe Jimmy Carter wasn’t crazy after all..................
Want to survive a war? Live in the country.>>>>>>>>>>>
Very wise words that I am now following and have been for about 10 years now.
Had a beautifully done Moose roast last night.
So that explains my first thought turned to Monty Python!
Santa uses flying ones.
I agree.
My pleasure. That was a good one, I've not had a lot of luck with those.
I'm not a fan of the horror genre, other than some older sci-fi.
lol, unless he’s serving it on a sub bun.
They make good hats though.
Could be worth a listen, if it’s on audiobook...
https://www.thriftbooks.com/series/gandalara-cycle/40842/
lol
Bugs Bunny | Rebel Rabbit (1949) | Dailymotion
Tectonic uplift at the Gibraltar Arc and the desiccation of the Mediterranean. Towards a mechanistic model for the Messinian Salinity Crisis.
Daniel Garcia-Castellanos
Published 2010
https://www.academia.edu/2877442/Tectonic_uplift_at_the_Gibraltar_Arc_and_the_desiccation_of_the_Mediterranean._Towards_a_mechanistic_model_for_the_Messinian_Salinity_Crisis
Raj Is The King Of Rabbits | soyzurdotaringa
366 subscribers | 6,405 views | July 7, 2013
I clicked this thread in hopes of that.
:D
Watership Down would’ve had a whole different ending...
Yipes
Janet Leigh was in it? WTH...
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069005/
https://search.brave.com/videos?q=%E2%80%9CNight%20of%20the%20Lepus%E2%80%9D&source=web
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