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And a Happy New Year!

The Best and the Worst of 2008 It’s that time! CDs 5. Sarah McLachlan - Closer: The Best Of … I’ve always loved S.M. I used to joke with Sam that I have a “Sarah Sense” because I’d always seem to find her music on the radio. She has probably been the most consistently admired and loved singers [ READ MORE ]

We’re Not Quite Aliens…..

If you hadn’t heard recently a story broke on numerous websites that some researchers had found ” building blocks of life” in a meteorite. Numerous headlines stated that we were aliens and other such things to grab the attention of readers. I’ve never found science journalism to be particularly great at explaining things so [ READ MORE ]

Dinos aren’t birds?

Dinos likely didn’t really have feathers… The theory that dinosaurs gave rise to birds has been dealt a blow by palaeontologists who have examined critical evidence from a Chinese fossil. The discoverers of the turkey-sized dinosaur Sinosauropteryx say it would have had primitive feathers, supporting the bird-from-dinosaurs theory. But the latest research says these ‘proto-feathers’ are really frilly [ READ MORE ]

Diictodon

The animal with the earliest sexual differentiation. Name: diictodon (DY-ik-toe-don) means two teeth animal: therapsid reptile size: 45 cm long diet: herbivore lived: 256 - 252 mya found: Africa and Asia fossil: In the late Permian period, the same time as the gorgonopes, these extremely common mammal-like synapsids burrowed deep in the ground living in couples, probably staying with [ READ MORE ]

Gorgonops

With a name like “Gorgonops” I expected it to look more sci-fi-ish. Name: Gorgonops (gore-gon-ops) “Gorgon’s arch” Animal type: Therapsid reptile lived: 252 - 248 mya diet: Carnivore size: 3.5 meters found: Africa fossil: The Earth was slowly dying as it Pangaea died up from coast to coast, temperatures were getting higher and higher very quickly and rainfall became more and more scarce. [ READ MORE ]

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