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Thursday, June 27, 2024

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Wednesday, June 26, 2024

Biden Pardons Veterans

Pride 2024

In a statement on Wednesday, President Biden said he was "using [his] clemency authority to pardon many former service members who were convicted simply for being themselves".

Tuesday, June 25, 2024

Holiday Touchdown: A Chiefs Love Story

Travis Kelce kisses Taylor Swift on the field at Arrowhead Stadium after the Kansas City Chiefs beat the San Fransisco 49ers in the 2024 Super Bowl.

John Locher/AP

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s on-field embrace at the Super Bowl earlier this year looked like the stuff of rom-com magic. And now, it’s becoming just that. Well… sort of. A Hallmark Holiday Movie!!!!!!

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https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/25/entertainment/taylor-swift-travis-kelce-chiefs-hallmark-movie/index.html

Monday, June 24, 2024

Precursor of a backbone Pikaia gracilens fossil

A Pikaia gracilens fossil (head, right) from the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History is seen right side up. The extinct sea creature was one of the first animals to have a precursor of a backbone.

There were a number of reasons for revisiting earlier interpretations of the fossils, Giovanni Mussini said.

Annotated photos above show the newly revised organization of Pikaia gracilens. Abbreviations in box C indicate key features in the fossil seen in box B: tentacles on Pikaia's head (Tc); innervation (In); dorsal nerve cord (Nc); possible gonads (?Go); and myosepta, or connective fascia (Ms). The drawing in box G identifies features in the fossil in box F: front appendages (Aa); the cavity of the pharynx (Ph); gut canal (Gu); and myomeres, or muscle segments (My). Fossil specimens are from the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History except for the fossil in box I from the Royal Ontario Museum.

Paleontologist Charles Doolittle Wolcott first encountered fossils of Pikaia in the Burgess Shale deposits of British Columbia, dating to 508 million years ago, and described them in a 1911 treatise. The animal measured roughly 6.3 inches (16 centimeters) long and had a flattened, sinuous body and a tiny head, tipped with two tentacles and fringed with external gills. These were originally thought to be rudimentary legs, so the animal was positioned with these structures facing downward.

We may need to revisited all of our older fossils again! -jzebraa

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https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/24/science/pikaia-fossil-chordates-backbone-scn/index.html

Thursday, June 20, 2024

New horned dinosaur species discovered 'largest and most ornate' of its kind ever found

Reconstruction of Lokiceratops surprised by a crocodilian in the 78-million-year-old swamps of northern Montana, USA. (©Andrey Atuchin for the Museum of Evolution in Maribo, Denmark

A new, giant-horned species of dinosaur was discovered that researchers said is the "largest and most ornate" of its kind ever found, according to a study published Thursday in the journal PeerJ.

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/horned-dinosaur-species-discovered-largest-120700483.html