rabbitears
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Here are some pictures of my more recently purchased marine fossils for anyone who may be interested:
Plesiosaur tooth
Angled so you can see the cross section of the tooth on the left of the matrix.
Close up of the tooth
Tiny Ammonite in a display box
The same specimen, out of the box
The Ammonite's 'bigger brother'
More of the larger Ammonite
The appearance of some soft tissue preservation in the shell of the larger Ammonite specimen
Both of the Ammonites together - I believe them to be Perisphinctes
A Trilobite
A portion of Plesiosaur femur
A close up of the Plesiosaur femur, showing the grain of the bone (unfortunately it's a bit blurry)
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That is awesome. I love the Ammonite and the tooth!
During Pizarro's conquest of Peru, many of the enslaved Indians were chained together in one long link to keep them from escaping. Those who died on the journey or were too weak to continue often had their hands cut off and were left to rot or die by the conquistadors because they couldn't be bothered to stop and take them off properly.
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Kzil
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Rabbitears, those are some awesome fossils!
I recently learned about the Chinese Remainder Theorem:
If you have a set of numbers that are relatively prime (none of the numbers share any factors with any of the others), it's possible to find a number that, when divided by each of the numbers gives any combination of remainders.
Example:
Set of numbers: 2,3,5,7
Remainders: 1,2,3,4
Number: 1103
1103/2=551 r1
1103/3=367 r2
1103/5=220 r3
1103/7=157 r4 |
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Fudo
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Thanks for sharing  right erm..
There is a big flat green space known as the "lines" all of 30 metres behind where I'm living atm.. is just a green space now, but a few hundred years ago it was deliberately flattened so as to create good ground for clear shooting, should the French invade the nearby docks.. The guns in the open don't work anymore but some in the docks still do. In fact, most of Chatham was a military/naval town..
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The knight can actually visit each square on a chess board exactly one time.
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Detroit, Michigan, is a place where the U.S. is North of Canada.
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Sylkat
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| Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2012 6:19 am Post subject: |
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Rabbitears needs to go on a dig with those teams from the Smithsonian who are finding all the big scary beasties in South America......
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| Watching Springwatch last night I learnt that hares can reach up to 45 mph and the males are called Jacks and the females Jills. That is probably widely known but it was news to me. |
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Arizona is not all desert. It "is home to the largest contiguous tract of ponderosa pine forest in the world, stretching from the New Mexico border northwest to the Grand Canyon."
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implausibiily
i could relate to thst
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rabbitears
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| Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2012 3:29 pm Post subject: |
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What digs are those Sylkat? And what are they finding?
Here is my newest addition to the fossil collection for anyone interested:
It's a Plesiosaur vertebra. 
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Sylkat
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| Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2012 4:19 pm Post subject: |
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Dear Rabbitears, The Smithsonian sent out a team (teams?) when someone in Columbia reported to them a bunch of large fossils were being found as they worked/dug a coal mine somewhere there. One thing that was pieced together from the fossils is an amazing, huge, alligator-swallowing snake called a Titanoboa, which was either 46 or 48 feet long, depending on which website you read. The Smithsonian made an accurate fiberglass model of it and displayed it in a New York subway...amazing pictures, the people loved it!
NOW they have found the remains or fossils of a turtle,Carbonemys Cofrinii, whose shell was 5 feet, 7 inches long.
And they are still digging!
I wish you could be there, don't you think that you would be having the time of your life?
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rabbitears
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| Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2012 4:40 pm Post subject: |
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Oh yeah, I remember you saying about the Titanoboa and the model.
And the turtle seems pretty good too. I'd love to unearth something like that. Any animal would be great, but a Parasaurolophus would be too good to be true (especially as only a few have ever been unearthed, and they are all in Canada and the U.S.)
A plesiosaur would be a more realistic goal considering they are reasonably common and I live near rich areas for marine fossils . All my fossils I have bought by the way, but to actually find one would send me ecstatic.
Have you heard of Archelon?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archelon
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Sylkat
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Dear Rabbitears, Thank you for the eye-opening info....I am getting a little annoyed with the media!
Your Archelon is(was?) much bigger than the Cofrinii, but the news presented Cofrinii as the biggest ever found.....
I resent being misinformed by people whose job it is to tell the truth!
Anyhow, Thank you, Archelon was amazing!
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