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Some Facts about Dragonflies

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:04:30 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The dragonfly, what cool name eh? Want to know more about these wonderful creature, here are some facts.

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Some Facts about Dragonflies

The dragonfly, what cool name eh? Want to know more about these wonderful creature, here are some facts.

-Dragonflies are very common insect, if you live in with tree’s around.

-Dragonflies lay their eggs on water, the water can be dirty it doesn’t matter.

-Dragonflies aren’t born with their wings but as they through the process of metamorphosis, they get their wings.

-The dragonfly spends most of it’s life in the larvae stage, about 3 years. Then when it grows up and has wing it only lives for a few weeks.

-When you see a Dragonfly know that it’s hunting annoying mosquito’s.

-Dragonflies are one of the oldest species, still around. They existed at the dinosaur era. They haven’t had many changes, they only got a bit smaller.

-The dragonfly young, can hunt small fishes with it’s big spear like head.

-When you see two dragonflies chasing one another it means one male is chasing the other from it’s territory.

Webkinz Jr. Plush Stuffed Animal Purple

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:51:13 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Webkinz Jr. Plush Stuffed Animal Purple

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Fossil hunter finds 140-million-year-old spider's web

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:16:14 GMT

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The tiny tangled filaments date back 140 million years and are linked to each other in the roughly circular pattern familiar to gardeners everywhere.

The web appears to be similar to those of modern orb web spiders, which weave a spiral of silk to catch insect prey.

The amber was found by an amateur fossil hunter whilst looking for dinosaur remains, and was handed over to palaeobiologist Professor Martin Brasier whose findings are published in the the Journal of the Geological Society.

The tiny threads about 1 millimetre (1/20th of an inch) long are held in suspension amid bits of burnt sap and fossilized vegetable matter.

Prof Brasier, of the University of Oxford, said: "This amber is very rare. It comes from the very base of the Cretaceous period, which makes it one of the oldest ambers anywhere to have inclusions in it."

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/6467024/Fossil-hunter-finds-140-million-year-old-spiders-web.html

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Tatankacephalus cooneyorum - The Sherman Tank of Dinosaurs

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 12:45:00 GMT

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Clip Source: www.livescience.com

A husband and wife team of paleontologists has discovered a newfound species of armored dinosaur that lived 112 million years ago in what is now Montana.

Now called Tatankacephalus cooneyorum, the beast is a type of ankylosaur, or a group of plant-eating dinosaurs that resembled nature's armored tanks as they walked about on four limbs and their bodies were covered with bony armor that may have been covered with a colorful keratinous sheathing (same as the stuff in bird beaks and turtle shells).

"These were big dinosaur versions of a Sherman tank," Bill Parsons said. "They were armored and they withstood whatever came at them, and they just kept going." T. cooneyorum was about 15 to 20 feet (4.5 to 6 meters) in length.

with hundreds or even thousands of bony plates equipped with spikes and a tail tipped with a club, similar to other ankylosaurs. Such protection, along with a swinging clubbed tail, would have kept at bay any of the small dinosaurs around at the time, Parsons said.

12 of the Wackiest Condoms ever

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:31:00 GMT

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Condometric

Tuxedo Condom

Obama Condom

Black Condom

Whiskey Condom

Rapex (the anti-rape condom)

Sonette Ehlers, of South Africa (the rape capital of the world), has invented an anti-rape device that goes by the name, Rapex. The device is basically a female condom with teeth lining the inside that work just like the protective spikes in a parking garage… You can go in, but whatever you do, don't back out. The teeth are angled so they allow penetration, but bite like a shark as the penis is removed; supposedly causing so much pain that it will give the woman a chance to escape. Further, according to Ms. Ehlers, the device will need to be surgically removed at a hospital, which will lead to the capture of the rapist

Dinosaur Condom

Customize Condom

Spray on Condom

Phosphorescent Condom

Gun Condom

Wacky Rubbers

I am become Death, destroyer of worlds

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:14:32 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The story surrounding the end of the dinosaurs has become increasingly complicated as more evidence emerges. In nothing else, they seem to have suffered from some very bad luck.

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The story of how the dinosaurs disappeared is getting more and more complicated

Well, it now seems possible that everyone was wrong. The Chicxulub crater, as it is known, may have been a mere aperitif. According to Sankar Chatterjee of Texas Tech University, the main course was served later. Dr Chatterjee has found a bigger crater—much bigger—in India. His is 500km across. The explosion that caused it may have been 100 times the size of the one that created Chicxulub. He calls it Shiva, after the Indian deity of destruction.

The picture that is emerging, then, is of a strange set of coincidences. First, two of the biggest impacts in history happened within 300,000 years of each other—a geological eyeblink. Second, they coincided with one of the largest periods of vulcanicity in the past billion years. Third, one of them just happened to strike where these volcanoes were active. Or, to put it another way, what really killed the dinosaurs was a string of the most atrocious bad luck.

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Tiny dinosaur

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:28:47 GMT

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Tiny dinosaur an omnivore diner

Despite looking bird-like, the tiny dinosaur was not related to Archaeopteryx (Source: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles)

Friday, 23 October 2009 Jennifer Viegas
Discovery News

Scientists have unveiled a tiny dinosaur weighing less than a kilogram and measuring around 70 centimetres long, making it the second smallest ever found.

The recently unearthed fossil is the size of a squirrel and would have dined on fruit and insects 150 million years ago.

Scientists say Fruitadens haagarorum is the world's smallest known ornithischian dinosaur, a group that included horned, duck-billed and armored dinosaurs, along with many other diverse species.

"The smallest known dinosaurs - just slightly smaller than Fruitadens - are from China and they represent some of the closest relatives of birds," says co-author Dr Luis Chiappe.

Bye Bye Birdie: Famed Fossil Loses Avian Perch

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:21:54 GMT

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clipper's remarks: just one of several species of feathered dinosaurs preceding modern birds. It may not even be a direct ancestor.

Such revisions make paleontology a science of second thoughts. Reconstructing the history of life, researchers thrash out theories of ancestry, behavior and biomechanics guided by hints from ancient bones. Archaeopteryx -- combining the feathers, wishbone and wings of a bird with the reptilian tail, teeth and claws of a dinosaur -- had already become a question mark.

Newly discovered fossils have prompted scientists to revamp their assumptions about archaeopteryx's distinguishing features over the last decade.

A cornucopia of fossil finds in China demonstrated that feathers coated many dinosaur species, not just birds. The newest finding, though, demonstrates that our understanding of even well-studied fossils like archaeopteryx -- scrutinized, measured, modeled for 150 years -- can still be upended.

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Paleontologists Determine the 150-Million-Year-Old Archaeopteryx Might Not Have Been Ancestor to Today's Finches and Doves

The feathered creature called archaeopteryx, easily the world's most famous fossil remains, had been considered the first bird since Charles Darwin's day. When researchers put its celebrity bones under the microscope recently, though, they discovered that this icon of evolution might not have been a bird at all.

An examination of its bone cells revealed for the first time that the 150-million-year-old creature had the slow growth rate of a dinosaur, not a bird, an international research team reported this month. Comparing it with other early fossils, the researchers concluded that the telltale physiology of modern birds likely didn't emerge until 20 million years or so after archaeopteryx flapped its broad wings across primordial lagoons.

By emphasizing growth rates, the researchers redefined the transition between dinosaurs and birds in a way that makes archaeopteryx

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Fossils Of World’s Smallest Dinosaur Discovered Outside Fruita, Colorado | World’s Smallest Dinosaur

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 03:27:10 GMT

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Fossils Of World’s Smallest Dinosaur Discovered Outside Fruita, Colorado | World’s Smallest Dinosaur Discovered

Fossils Of World’s Smallest Dinosaur Discovered Outside Fruita, Colorado | World’s Smallest Dinosaur Discovered:-

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My Favorite Two Attractions At Disney World Parks

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:40:11 GMT

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clipper's remarks: There are 20 audio-animatronic figures including donkeys, chickens, possums, and the rainmaker in a now flooded mining town: Professor Cumulus Isobar. There is also antique mining equipment, falling rocks, an earthquake, and the smell of sulfur as you pass phosphorescent pools. In Disney World, you careen through a dinosaur's ribs, under a waterfall, past spewing geysers, and over a volcanic pool.

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There are 20 audio-animatronic figures including donkeys, chickens, possums, and the rainmaker in a now flooded mining town: Professor Cumulus Isobar. There is also antique mining equipment, falling rocks, an earthquake, and the smell of sulfur as you pass phosphorescent pools. In Disney World, you careen through a dinosaur's ribs, under a waterfall, past spewing geysers, and over a volcanic pool.

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The smallest dino ever discovered in North America

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:42:43 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The newly identified creature weighed less than two pounds and stood about 4 inches tall. From head to tail, it measured a little over 2 feet long,

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You see that handsome little devil Steven Spielberg's holding? That's a Fruitadens haagarorum, the smallest dino ever discovered in North America. I want a million of them. No, even more than that.

The newly identified creature weighed less than two pounds and stood about 4 inches tall. From head to tail, it measured a little over 2 feet long, said Luis Chiappe, director of the Dinosaur Institute of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County where the fossil bones are stored.

It likely ate plants and hunted bugs during the late Jurassic period, about 150 million years ago. It was so tiny and fast that it probably darted between the legs of larger dinosaurs, researchers said.

The dinosaur "would have looked like a roadrunner on steroids," Chiappe said.

North America's tiniest dinosaur

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:05:59 GMT

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The little creature weighed less than 2 pounds and was only 28 inches long from its fierce little jaws to the end of its long tail.

Although its name is Fruitadens - fruit teeth - it probably ate all kinds of food. It likely ate plants most of the time, but bugs and other small animals, as well, said Luis Chiappe, director of the museum's Dinosaur Institute.

It's the smallest species of dinosaur ever found in North America

and it lived about 150 million years ago - one of the most primitive of all the dinosaurs, living right at the base of the dinosaur evolutionary tree

The slightly built, agile little dinosaur belongs to a class of creatures known as heterodontosaurids, whose unusually shaped teeth - some sharp and some leaf-shaped - indicate it was most probably omnivorous

Small Wonders: Finalists From the Nikon Small World Competition

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 12:32:14 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Small World is regarded as the leading forum for showcasing the beauty and complexity of life as seen through the light microscope. For over 30 years, Nikon has rewarded the world's best photomicrographers who make critically important scientific contributions to life sciences, bio-research and materials science.

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© Fabrice Parais, DIREN Basse-Normandie, Hérouville-Saint-Clair, France
Atherix ibis (fly) aquatic larva (25x)
Stereomicroscopy

© Karie Holtermann, Rancho Cucamonga, California, United States
Raindrop on butterfly wing (20X)
Differential interference contrast

© Norm Barker, Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Dinosaur bone, Jurassic period (15X)
Reflected light from fiber optic

© Viktor Sykora, Institute of Pathophysiology, First Medical Faculty, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Hoya carnosa (wax plant) flower (10x)
Darkfield

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4 Natural Wonders Of North America

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:32:44 GMT

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4 Natural Wonders Of North America

Niagara Falls

National Par

Great Blue Hole

“Underwater sink hole measuring 984 feet (120 m) across and is 394 feet (120 m) deep”

Dinosaur Provincial Park,

Dino Footprints Set New Record

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:50:32 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Imagine an animal weighing 40 tons

Clip Source: dsc.discovery.com

Record Breaker
The world's largest dinosaur tracks, pictured above, have been excavated by French researchers, the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) said in a press release. The footprints belonged to a sauropod that weighed 40 tons or more.

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the tracks formed by the footprints extend over dozens, even hundreds, of meters (yards). Further digs will be carried out in the coming years and they may reveal that the site at Plagne is one of the biggest of its kind in the world."

The footprints entail circular depressions in chalky sediment that has been dated to the Upper Jurassic period, around 150 million years ago, when the area was covered by a warm, shallow sea.

"The prints are very big, reaching 1.20 to 1.50 meters (3.9 to 4.9 feet) across, which corresponds to animals exceeding 30 or 40 tons in weight and measuring more than 25 meters (81 feet) in length,"

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