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Rabbitears needs to go on a dig with those teams from the Smithsonian who are finding all the big scary beasties in South America......

Sylkat

Watching Springwatch last night I learnt that hares can reach up to 45 mph and the males are called Jacks and the females Jills. That is probably widely known but it was news to me.

Arizona is not all desert. It "is home to the largest contiguous tract of ponderosa pine forest in the world, stretching from the New Mexico border northwest to the Grand Canyon."

implausibiily
i could relate to thst

What digs are those Sylkat? And what are they finding?

Here is my newest addition to the fossil collection for anyone interested:



It's a Plesiosaur vertebra.

Dear Rabbitears, The Smithsonian sent out a team (teams?) when someone in Columbia reported to them a bunch of large fossils were being found as they worked/dug a coal mine somewhere there. One thing that was pieced together from the fossils is an amazing, huge, alligator-swallowing snake called a Titanoboa, which was either 46 or 48 feet long, depending on which website you read. The Smithsonian made an accurate fiberglass model of it and displayed it in a New York subway...amazing pictures, the people loved it!
NOW they have found the remains or fossils of a turtle,Carbonemys Cofrinii, whose shell was 5 feet, 7 inches long.
And they are still digging!
I wish you could be there, don't you think that you would be having the time of your life?

Sylkat

Oh yeah, I remember you saying about the Titanoboa and the model.

And the turtle seems pretty good too. I'd love to unearth something like that. Any animal would be great, but a Parasaurolophus would be too good to be true (especially as only a few have ever been unearthed, and they are all in Canada and the U.S.)

A plesiosaur would be a more realistic goal considering they are reasonably common and I live near rich areas for marine fossils . All my fossils I have bought by the way, but to actually find one would send me ecstatic.

Have you heard of Archelon?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archelon

Dear Rabbitears, Thank you for the eye-opening info....I am getting a little annoyed with the media!
Your Archelon is(was?) much bigger than the Cofrinii, but the news presented Cofrinii as the biggest ever found.....
I resent being misinformed by people whose job it is to tell the truth!
Anyhow, Thank you, Archelon was amazing!

Sylkat

If you're ready for some astonishingly true facts, follow this link.

http://www.legendsofamerica.com/or-facts.html

Glad you like the Archelon. It is lovely. And huge!

Yeah, you have to beware what the media tells you with anything of course, but especially with animal information, and doubly especially extinct ones.

They often take the biggest measurement for an animal found, and try to pass it off as the average measurement. Thankfully though I think enough Archelon have been found to determine an accurate average size.

By the way, Liopleurodon is often overestimated in size. In 1999, the BBC's Walking with Dinosaurs series described Liopleurodon as being about 25 meters (approx. 82ft) long and weighing around 150 tons. This was due to a mix of poor assumptions of average skull sizes after studying large skull specimens and a flawed theory suggesting that an adult Liopleurodon's skull was about one seventh the size of it's overall body, when it is in fact around one fifth the size, as shown by recently discovered skeletal remains of the animal.

The largest species of Liopleurodon, L. ferox would have actually been around 5 - 7 meters (16 - 23ft) long and would have perhaps weighed up to 5 tons when mature- nothing like the 150 tons stated in WWD.

Still though, a large animal roughly around the size of an adult Killer Whale.

This will help to explain in more depth:
http://www.plesiosaur.com/plesiosaurs/liopleurodon.php

Thank you so much, Makayla!
That site is brilliant!
So are you!

Sylkat

Some trivia about mr fry, a vain attempt to lure dunbots back.. It's pretty well documented that Stephen went to jail for credit card fraud and rather turned his life around upon release but I didn't know that while he was still on parole and having just passed the Cambridge entrance exam, he then went to teach in a prep school before attending university. His account of his "interview" is quite funny.. while he knew his classics it seems he still somewhat "blagged it" and muddled through.. Meh, better than nothing.

by definition, the first musical "synthesizers" [non-electronic, additive] were rudolph wurlitzer's theatrical pipe organs, with robert hope-jones' improvements/refinements, which mr. wurlitzer promptly appropriated for himself and screwed mr. jones out of any recognition for. bode and moog [and their modern modular designs] had yet to come along for another half-century. more controversially, the first electronic synthesizers were invented by elisha gray in 1876, when he created his "musical telegraph," and thaddeus cahill with his telharmonium [dynamophone] in 1897.

cool thanks, auntblabby. Love to learn about musical things.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/gallery_directory.cfm?photo_id=08B6B12D-FA3A-00FD-ADF2512D59601DD0

I find this a bit creepy, but necessary for understanding of these mechanisms.

May I ask what it shows? I appreciate you've posted a link just i'm scared of what it might be.. To put it simply. Long story, reluctant to tell it. Anyways, thanks for sharing.