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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 ]

The ROM

I won’t write about how much I fucking loved the dinosaur exhibit, because you all probably know that I think it was PHENOMENAL… except that they said they had “expanded” their dinosaur collection - however… they just made fake dinosaurs out of plaster. There were a TON of dinosaurs that had no real bone on [ 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 ]

Edaphosaurus

First known herbivore reptile to evolve. Name: Edaphosaurus (ed-eff-oh-saw-rus) “pavement lizard” animal type: synapsid (pelycosaur) repitle lived: 282-256 mya size: 3 meters long found: North America and Europe fossil: This animal looked a heck of a lot like the dimetrodon that I covered a while ago, but the two animals are distantly related and extremely different. The most obvious difference being [ READ MORE ]

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