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uaba:

New Zealand Safari (via *amy&kimball)

via mamrie’s weblog

pdvmorris:

I’m awaiting the discovery of the very rare Ukeleasarus….. Hey, read this one in the paper this a.m. over my java fix. Thanks for posting up here Cheers the old Geezer

butterflyeffects:

Three new dinosaurs found in Outback Queensland

THREE new species of Australian dinosaur have been discovered in a prehistoric billabong in western Queensland.

Premier Anna Bligh announced the discovery in the central western town of Winton today as she opened the first stage of the Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum of Natural History.

The dinosaurs have been nicknamed after characters created by poet Banjo Paterson, who is said to have written Waltzing Matilda in Winton in 1885.

Banjo (carnivorous theropod), Matilda and Clancy (giant plant-eating sauropods) were found in a vast geological deposit near Winton that dates from 98 million years ago.

The first new sauropods to be named in Australia in more than 75 years were unearthed during State Government-funded joint Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum and Queensland Museum digs.

The meat-eating Australovenator wintonensis (Banjo) has been coined Australia’s answer to the velociraptor made famous in the Jurassic Park movies. 

The two plant-eating, four-legged sauropod species are new types of titanosaurs - the largest animals ever to walk the earth.

“These discoveries are a major breakthrough in the scientific understanding of prehistoric life in Australia,” Ms Bligh said.

I know this was all over the news yesterday, so sorry if someone has already posted about it.. but it’s such a cool discovery.

Also, Australovenator, and Banjo!

baby capybara

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fatchance:

Papilio glaucus sipping lantana nectar. This is the state insect of Virginia.

Otters cool off with some specially made fish ice lollies at an aquarium in Southsea, Hampshire. Picture: SOLENT

Billy the eagle owl has a shower to keep him cool in the hot weather. Picture: M AND Y PORTSMOUTH

A baby pygmy hippopotamus, Leishan (whose name means ‘gift” in West Africa) with mother Ellen at Edinburgh Zoo, Scotland. Picture: PA

love-and-radiation:

suddenly:

Angry toad (via Specklet)

Small and pissed off.

summersumz:

Sea turtle. Dec. 2008.

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