Heritage · Society · Palaeontology · Nature
"A citizen of Russia travelling from Mongolia to Russia through the Kyakhta MAPP customs post was carrying in his accompanied baggage two fragments of petrified bone tissue with a total weight of 2.45 kilograms. Experts determined that, by their morphological features, the fossils are fragments of a dinosaur
Museums · Observations · Science · Palaeontology
Incidentally, most skeletons on display in museums are reconstructed from one or two fragments. The originally supposed shape of these models depended solely on the imagination of their author: the first palaeontologists dreamed up improbable Loch Ness monsters and flying brontosaurs. Not infrequently, when checked, exhibits created 100 years ago
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Observations · Palaeontology · Nature · Humour
Kakops lived at the end of the Cretaceous and dwelt on the banks of watercourses. Of interest because he is reckoned one of the first amphibians. Short legs and a short tail helped him to hop smartly into the water whenever larger predators drew near. Little is known of him;
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NB! · Palaeontology · Nature · Humour
NB! · Palaeontology · Nature · Humour
NB! · Palaeontology · Nature
NB! · Palaeontology · Nature
Science · Palaeontology · Nature · Humour
ONE'S OWN REPTILOIDS: LET US SETTLE ACCOUNTS. Crocodiles, like birds, are the closest living relatives of the dinosaurs. And if the appearance of birds has undergone startling changes over the millions of years, the bandy-legged, pot-bellied and goggle-eyed crocodiles look almost exactly as their ancestors
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