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Topic Started: Apr 9 2014, 07:11 AM (11,237 Views)
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Think something about this study might have been mentioned here before (unless I'm thinking of another site), but here's some on Pisttacosaurus color and palaeoecology.
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https://svpow.com/2016/09/16/how-horrifying-was-the-neck-of-barosaurus/ Here is something interesting about barosaurus which has popped up recently. Basically it suggests that a neck was docile the length expected and that this barosaurus had a 17 metre neck.
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I already made a post about that.
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Oops. Didn't see that one tbh. But it seems crazy nevertheless- even Mamechisaurus sinocaradorum's neck didn't reach, let alone surpass 15m- and Barosaurus had a proportionally smaller neck than Mamechisaurus too.
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Sep 10 2016, 11:04 AM
At any rate, Rodlox's post made it sound as if the world is suddenly worse off than before, which simply isn't true. Nothing whatsoever has changed. There is no need for alarm any more than there was before.
that was not the intent of my post - my post's intent was to ask why the use of "finally".
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Sep 10 2016, 10:36 AM
Because of the common moral in the modern day about conservation that we should save as many species as possible. Few people care about a subspecies, but if they hear that a whole species is going extinct, they're gonna be more likely to do something. Changing it from one species to four will likely make people care more about giraffe conservation.
most people will likely go "come back when you have a clue what you're talking about" because they'll think that if we don't know/can't be sure how many species there are of giraffes (not exactly the rodents of the hoofstock world), how can we be trusted to say that giraffes are at greater risk than before?
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http://someso.cf/scientists-cut-out-tadpoles-eyes-grow-another-eye-on-its-butt-new-eye-grows-its-own-neural-pathways-to-give-tadpole-sight/

When scientists cut out the eye(s?) of a tadpole, and got it to grow another on its butt, the eye grew a connection to the brain. Additionally, these connections were indirect - it tried the stomach and spine. Interestingly, the brain knew that this signal coming from the spine was from an eye.
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Those poor tadpoles :(. I remember having my own tadpoles when I was 8 after school no longer wanted them. After one of them died, I brought them to a mostly empty (besides dragonflies) pond nearby and released them. Their descendants are still around now :).

On a serious note, more ambiguity surrounds the giant Barosaurus cervical vertebrae, as while it is most likely a C9 vertebrae (according to Taylor and Wedel's analysis of the morphology), it could be anything from a C11 to C7, with substantially different results if any of those alternatives are the case.
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Cutting out their eyes, grafting eyes onto different parts of their body, conditioning them with electric shocks.

Geezus, those poor tadpoles. And yet, hooray science. I've never felt this conflicted after reading a science paper.
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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/09/toughie-rabbs-fringe-limbed-tree-frog-dies-goes-extinct/
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I know it's been a while, but here's something that happened today: The European/Russian ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter arrived in Mars orbit. It's called a Trace Gas Orbiter because it's designed to detect methane on Mars, which may or may not be given off by life on the planet.
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Gotta say, though, you'd think the fact that we've been looking for almost forty years and haven't found anything would have clued them in by now.
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Gotta say, though, you'd think the fact that we've been looking for almost forty years and haven't found anything would have clued them in by now.
In those "almost forty years" we have not managed to look nearly as hard as we'd have liked. There's still a lot more to find out. Also, I would hardly say nothing's been found. While no absolute smoking gun confirmation of life on Mars has yet been found, there has been found lots of evidence indicating the possibility of life on that world. So I'd say the search is still worth it.
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Oct 20 2016, 01:39 AM
we have not managed to look nearly as hard as we'd have liked.
Oh, well what would you recommend?
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