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  • 'Hidden Gem' Dinosaur Skin Fossil Reveals Surprises About Feather Evolution

    05/22/2024 11:16:58 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 22 replies
    Science Alert ^ | May 22, 2024 | ByZIXIAO YANG & MARIA MCNAMARA
    The studied Psittacosaurus under natural (upper half) and UV light (lower half). (Zixiao Yang, Author provided) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Strong but light, beautiful and precisely structured, feathers are the most complex skin appendage that ever evolved in vertebrates. Despite the fact humans have been playing with feathers since prehistory, there's still a lot we don't understand about them. Our new study found that some of the first animals with feathers also had scaly skin like reptiles. Following the debut of the first feathered dinosaur, Sinosauropteryx prima, in 1996, a surge of discoveries has painted an ever more interesting picture of feather evolution....
  • BREAKING: FIDEL CASTRO IS DEAD (Claims leading Cuban Blog)

    08/24/2007 12:31:34 PM PDT · by FormerACLUmember · 735 replies · 47,649+ views
    Babalu ^ | 8-24-07 | Val Prieto
    My cellphone has not stopped ringing for the past ten minutes. Various sources inform that an announcement will come within the next few minutes from the Cuban government on Cuban TV and media. Stay tuned and we'll see if we've been manipulated once again or if today is the birth date of Cuba's liberty. Update: Here's the deal and what I know up to now, as of 1500 hours, August 24, 2007: First, South Florida Law Enforcement is on alert. An EOC (Emergency Operations Center) has been set-up and manned somewhere in Homestead. Im also told Local and State government...
  • French Python hits London stage (Repent! The Apocolypse is at hand!)

    01/28/2005 5:55:37 AM PST · by presidio9 · 19 replies · 1,807+ views
    Reuters ^ | Fri, Jan 28, 2005
    If nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition, then how about Monty Python's surreal humour brought to a London stage, in French, with English surtitles? That is exactly what a French troupe has done in the first and only authorised stage version of the television series that earned Monty Python international cult status. "It is like we have been adopted as knights of Camelot," said producer Remy Renoux, referring to "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" in which French soldiers taunt King Arthur and his companions with insults like "Your mother was a hamster!" "If Python fans are a little anxious they...
  • Zot!!!

    01/29/2003 6:58:52 AM PST · by solid waste · 40 replies · 1,841+ views
    Intervention Magazine | Regis T. Sabol
  • ZOT!! (Zot theme song included!)

    01/21/2003 10:03:08 AM PST · by Warren Harrison · 21 replies · 681+ views
  • Zot!!!

    01/08/2003 6:31:32 AM PST · by Raineer · 79 replies · 799+ views