It’s not the artists’ fault, the blame lies with the historians, archeologists and museum curators since they were uncovered!
It’s not the artists’ fault, the blame lies with the historians, archeologists and museum curators since they were uncovered!
*Yikes*
Sidenote: the Haast's eagle was spotted in the wild about a decade after the moa became extinct, that means that it was eating something else... And its prey imprint was tall, two-legged, creatures...
Seems TC loves America
Turkish Candy kept in the roof box?
Yeah...looks really stable.
Great pic with a sort of good news story attached
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/dec/08/rajan-last-ocean-swimming-elephant-jody-macdonalds-best-photograph-andaman-retirement
This one kinda tickled me- it's a photo of Uncle Xi's daddy (a senior communist party official) on a visit to Sydney in 1989- i was living nearby then, in Surry Hills!
Export winesses (thanks D44) will recognise the spire at the top left of photo- that's Paddys Market!
Edit- [Just to point out- this area is Sydneys Chinatown. It's grown a lot since!]
Last edited by sabang; 09-12-2021 at 03:03 PM.
^^ In case anyone here is interested :
It has been known for over 300 years that the anatomy of the elephant lung is unique among mammals in that the pleural cavity is obliterated by connective tissue. However no satisfactory explanation has been advanced.
Recent studies suggest that the elephant has an aquatic ancestry and the trunk may have developed for snorkeling. In addition, the modern day elephant is the only mammal that can remain submerged far below the surface of the water while snorkeling. The resulting differences of pressures within the thorax mean that the small blood vessels of the pleura are in great danger of rupturing or causing severe edema. The same distribution of pressures occurs when the animal raises water inside its trunk prior to drinking although in this case the pressure differences are relatively short-lived. Evolution has provided a remarkable solution to this problem by replacing the normally delicate parietal and visceral pleurae by dense connective tissue, and separating the two pleurae by loose connective tissue to allow some sliding movement.
Double click on the pic, then select large
Extra nice GF. Where is that?
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