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Bizarre new species of extinct reptile shows dinosaurs copied body, skull shapes
2016-10-03 12:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] Iconic dinosaur shapes were present for at least a hundred million years on our planet in animals before those dinosaurs themselves actually appeared. In a study in the Sept. 22 issue of Current Biology, a multi-institutional team of paleontologists including Virginia Tech College of Science researcher…
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230-million-year-old Texas reptile had bizarre 'dinosaurian' features
2016-10-03 12:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] A newly described species of extinct reptile that roamed in Texas more than 200 million years ago had a strikingly dome-shaped head, much like that of dinosaurs that lived 100 million years or so later. Like the wings of pterosaurs and birds and the limblessness of snakes and some amphibians, the study reported in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on September 22 offers an example of convergent evolution between distantly related species of vertebrates. “We…
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An autonomous bot on Thingiverse is remixing objects into bizarre, artistic creations
2016-05-05 20:00:50| Extremetech
Shiv Integer is no human spammer, it's a Thingiverse bot that creates bizarre mishmashes of other objects. it might still be a spammer, though.
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The Bizarre Reason Greenland Is Getting Darker Each Year
2016-03-03 14:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Gizmodo: Greenland is one of the brightest spots on planet Earth, but ominously enough, its gleaming surface darkens with each passing year, thanks to a strange series of physical processes, one of which cannot be seen with the naked eye. According to a fascinating new study led by Columbia's Earth Institute and published today the journal The Cryosphere, which finds that Greenland's "albedo," or reflectivity, has been decreasing since the mid 90s. By the end of the 21st century, Greenland could be ten...
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The bizarre history of Abercrombie & Fitch - and how the...
2016-01-12 21:01:33| Apparel - Topix.net
It went from an outdoor gear shop in the late 19th century to a retailer known for oversexed, borderline-softcore pornographic ads. It was later maligned, and it looks like it's headed towards tame basics.