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clockwork-vaudeville: themidgardiansongstress: lozziepants: HA...
HAHAHA!! XD
Mulan though.
they all look about 12 years old though..
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Visayan Spotted Deer (Rusa alfredi) His name’s Al
Visayan Spotted Deer (Rusa alfredi)
His name’s Al
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rhamphotheca: When Whales Walked in Egypt by Brian Switek...
When Whales Walked in Egypt
by Brian Switek (Nov. 2011)
If the German paleontologist Eberhard Fraas is remembered for anything, his efforts to discover and describe the impressive dinosaurs of Tanzania’s Tendaguru beds must be at the top of the list. Thanks to a tip about the site from local mining engineer Bernhard Wilhelm Sattler, in 1907 Fraas began to remove impressive Jurassic dinosaurs simultaneously strange and familiar.
The site was Africa’s own Late Jurassic graveyard — one full of spectacular creatures that seemed quite similar to Brachiosaurus, Allosaurus, Stegosaurus, and other dinosaurian celebrities found in North America’s ever-productive Morrison Formation. Fraas was delighted to find such a wonderful place –- the dinosaur bones “spoke in an eloquent language of the extinct primeval world”, he later wrote –- and the imposing Giraffatitan which stands in the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin is a reconstructed testament to Fraas’ efforts.
But Fraas was not solely focused on dinosaurs during his career. Several years before his journey to Tendaguru, Fraas described a peculiar creature that –- had it only been slightly more complete –- could have quickly closed a gap in our understanding of one of the greatest transitions in evolutionary history. Fraas called the animal Protocetus. It was one of the very earliest whales.
There wasn’t very much left of the original Protocetus specimen. Found in limestone deposits created on the floor of a 45-million-year-old sea where Cairo, Egypt, now sits, the archaic cetacean was represented by a nearly complete skull and a series of vertebrae from the neck down to the hip. No parts of the limbs were found…
(read more: Laelaps - Wired Science)
(illustration: A restoration of the protocetid whale Maiacetus. Though found in far from Aegyptocetus in Pakistan, Maiacetus represents the general form of the protocetid whales. Image modified from one posted to Flickr by the University of Michigan Museum of Natural History)
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dragonsanatomy: pitchforking: Things you can find on the...
Things you can find on the internet… detailed anatomy diagrams for animals that don’t actually exist.
(via http://library.thinkquest.org/04oct/01925/Comparing dragons.html)
ACTUALLY
Dragon’s Anatomy
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cmyktardis: simplysailormoon: queenofsunspear: Zuhair Murad |...
Zuhair Murad | Spring-Summer 2013 | Part II
very sailor moon-esque to me!
I thought the same thing before I realized who posted this xD
pretty
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mymerthurfall: hellofromholly: nooby-banana: ageotropic: just...
Magician James Galea’s Unbelievable Trick
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coelasquid: lillianmaxwell: Bunny Bread: 2-1/2 to 3...
Bunny Bread:
2-1/2 to 3 cups all-purpose flour
2 tablespoons sugar
1 package (1/4 ounce) active dry yeast
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup (8 ounces) sour cream
1/4 cup water
2 tablespoons butter
1 egg
Put the butter, the sour cream and water in a small saucepan and heat, but do not cook. Cool to tepid then add the remaining ingredients. Put in a kneader. If thick add more water.
Let it rise double and cut into 16 equal parts.
Baking tray lined with baking paper and cut the ears with scissors.
Then, the eyes can be put, such as pepper grains.
Bake at 375° for about 10 minutes or until golden brown.
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loden66: Cake
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jing being cute
jing being cute
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I couldn’t have you asking me to stay. This is a really...
I couldn’t have you asking me to stay. This is a really incredible opportunity, and there’s no way I’m gonna miss it. How unfair would it be for you to ask that of me?
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DICAPRIO: Honestly, it was so bizarre. I just didn’t work for a...
DICAPRIO: Honestly, it was so bizarre. I just didn’t work for a couple years. I think I did one small cameo? [Looking at Kate]
WINSLET: You did [Woody Allen’s] Celebrity.
DICAPRIO: Then I did Man in the Iron Mask, but that was before Titanic had been released. I think?
WINSLET: Yes, you did Man in the Iron Mask and then you did Celebrity.
DICAPRIO: Thank you, Kate! [Laughing] I think it’s hilarious that I need to ask her.
WINSLET: May I? [Reaching over and rubbing her finger over DiCaprio’s nose] You’ve scratched the top of your nose! Oh, no, we’re literally doing everything we said we wouldn’t do.
DICAPRIO: I know, this is a little too cute. It’s like out of one of those —
WINSLET: Don’t say it!
DICAPRIO:— one of those scenes from When Harry Met Sally… with the old couples. ”And I met her in the park in 1992! And she was…” ”Eating a hot dog!” ”And I was scratching my butt!”
WINSLET: Oh, my God, and look at me fussing over your face. I’ve literally turned into a combination of your mother, your sister, and, I don’t know what, your wife!
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