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Post by Skelly Craig on Jul 16, 2019 21:30:48 GMT -5
An Armadillo girdled lizard biting its tail that looks a bit like a little Bombinating Beast:  |
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Post by Foxy on Jul 17, 2019 6:43:21 GMT -5
I could totally see Uncle Monty studying that! That's so cool, Terry!
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Antenora
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Put down that harpoon gun, in the name of these wonderful birds!
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Post by Antenora on Jul 20, 2019 17:35:10 GMT -5
I found this silly photoshop which also reminded me a lot of the Beast:  |
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Post by Dante on Oct 10, 2019 3:49:59 GMT -5
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Post by Hermes on Oct 10, 2019 9:12:20 GMT -5
Ha! On reading the article, 'ninja student' turns out to be a bit deceptive, but as a whole it is amazingly Lemony, and I'm sure the student will make a great volunteer.
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Antenora
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Put down that harpoon gun, in the name of these wonderful birds!
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Post by Antenora on Jul 22, 2020 7:44:33 GMT -5
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Post by Uncle Algernon on Jul 22, 2020 10:12:10 GMT -5
Link's not working for me…
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Post by Optimism is my Phil-osophy on Jul 22, 2020 10:23:21 GMT -5
Link's not working for me…  Scientists accidentally create 'impossible' hybrid fish By Stephanie Pappas - Live Science Contributor 2 days ago They call it the sturddlefish. (Image: © Genes 2020, 11(7), 753; doi.org/10.3390/genes11070753, CC BY 4.0) It shouldn't have been possible, but it was: The birth of long-nosed, spiky-finned hybrids of Russian sturgeons and American paddlefish. Hungarian scientists announced in May in the journal Genes that they had accidentally created a hybrid of the two endangered species, which they have dubbed the "sturddlefish." There are about 100 of the hybrids in captivity now, but scientists have no plans to create more. "We never wanted to play around with hybridization. It was absolutely unintentional," Attila Mozsár, a senior research fellow at the Research Institute for Fisheries and Aquaculture in Hungary, told The New York Times. Related: Photos: The freakiest-looking fish Russian sturgeons (Acipenser gueldenstaedtii) are critically endangered and also economically important: They're the source of much of the world's caviar. These fish can grow to more than 7 feet long (2.1 meters), living on a diet of molluscs and crustaceans. American paddlefish (Polyodon spathula) filter-feed off of zooplankton in the waters of the Mississippi River drainage basin, where water from the Mississippi and its tributaries drain into. They, too, are large, growing up to 8.5 feet (2.5 m) long. Like the sturgeon, the have a slow rate of growth and development puts them at risk of overfishing. They've also lost habitat to dams in the Mississippi drainage, according to the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology. The two species last shared a common ancestor 184 million years ago, according to the Times. Nevertheless, they were able to breed —— much to the surprise of Mozsár and his colleagues. The researchers were trying to breed Russian sturgeon in captivity through a process called gynogenesis, a type of asexual reproduction. In gynogenesis, a sperm triggers an egg's development but fails to fuse to the egg's nucleus. That means its DNA is not part of the resulting offspring, which develop solely from maternal DNA. The researchers were using American paddlefish sperm for the process, but something unexpected happened. The sperm and egg fused, resulting in offspring with both sturgeon and paddlefish genes. The resulting sturddlefish hatched by the hundreds, and about 100 survive now, according to the Times. Some are just about 50-50 mixtures of sturgeon and paddlefish genes, and some are far more sturgeon-like. All are carnivores, like the sturgeon, and share the sturgeon's blunter nose, compared with the paddlefish's pointy snout. Most hybrid species, such as the liger (a mix of a lion and a tiger) and the mule (a mix of a horse and donkey), can't have offspring of their own, and the sturddlefish is probably no exception. Mozsár and his colleagues plan to care for the fish, but they won't create more, since the hybrid could outcompete native sturgeon in the wild and worsen the sturgeon's chances of survival. However, the fact that fish separated by 184 million years of evolution could cross-breed indicates that they're not so different after all. "These living fossil fishes have extremely slow evolutionary rates, so what might seem like a long time to us isn't quite as long of a time to them," Solomon David, an aquatic ecologist at Nicholls State University in Louisiana, told the Times. Originally published on Live Science. |
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Post by R. on Nov 1, 2020 14:53:27 GMT -5
I just read a book in which the precise phrase’All the wrong questions’ is said. The book also contains a character with a huge vocabulary named Klaus, a character with the initials V.B, and a disastrous fire. There is also a mysterious organisation with three initials for a name which drives long black cars and kidnaps child geniuses in order to recruit them. Their recruitment method for the protagonist is uncannily similar to Kit’s techniques in TPP. The woman who takes her drives like a maniac to avoid someone chasing them, and treats her to a meal. The book also contains a fourteen-year-old orphaned science whiz with a massive inheritance.
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Post by Dante on Nov 1, 2020 16:46:03 GMT -5
I just read a book in which the precise phrase’All the wrong questions’ is said. The book also contains a character with a huge vocabulary named Klaus, a character with the initials V.B, and a disastrous fire. There is also a mysterious organisation with three initials for a name which drives long black cars and kidnaps child geniuses in order to recruit them. Their recruitment method for the protagonist is uncannily similar to Kit’s techniques in TPP. The woman who takes her drives like a maniac to avoid someone chasing them, and treats her to a meal. The book also contains a fourteen-year-old orphaned science whiz with a massive inheritance. I recently read a book featuring a narrator named Lemon who lives and works in an enormous hotel in an obscure seaside resort, who helps an orphan named Violet to track down her missing naturalist father, during which they encounter a hook-handed man, a harpoon gun, and an artifact said to summon a legendary sea monster. Malamander, by Thomas Taylor. Which is yours? |
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Post by R. on Nov 2, 2020 1:23:23 GMT -5
Dante , you can’t be serious! My book was Max Einstein and the Genius Experiment by James Patterson. I also read a book, The Impossible Boy, in which some children lie to their class about why the new kid is being stalked by a secret society. Their excuse? He’s an orphan whose parents left behind an enormous fortune, and is now being tracked down by a greedy relative who wants the money.
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Post by Dante on Nov 2, 2020 6:27:38 GMT -5
Dante , you can’t be serious! 100% serious, and I think there may have been even more coincidences than that - well, I say "coincidences"; in fact, I'm pretty sure the book is one big homage to the works of Lemony Snicket (though mind you, it reads very differently). Thanks; I'll have to give that one a try, too. |
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Post by Optimism is my Phil-osophy on Nov 2, 2020 6:40:15 GMT -5
I just bought this Portuguese version of the e-book. Thanks for the recommendation.
I really like smart female characters.
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Post by Hermes on Nov 2, 2020 10:05:56 GMT -5
When I saw both your descriptions of you books, I was strongly moved to say 'UM'. These definitely look like Snicket homages to me (and so, strictly speaking, not coincidences).
It might be interesting to investigate how many Snicket-influenced books there are, but that would be out of place here, so I'll start a thread in LL.
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Post by bear on Nov 4, 2020 17:39:55 GMT -5
not quite ATWQ, but i just heard about dis movie what has the same plot as Poison For Breakfast
D.O.A. is a 1950 American film noir directed by Rudolph Maté, considered a classic of the genre. The frantically-paced plot revolves around a doomed man's quest to find out who has poisoned him and why.
i'm not that surprised as it's a pretty simple idea.. but who gonna pull it off better??
I’ve watched the movie now. It’s also set in San Francisco, so seems like something DH might know after all. pretty cool movie, there’s a cool jazz sequence and also some Ballsy stuff. very confusing plot though. hopefully DH simplifies for his youth audience.
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