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visualgraphic: Prism Pack

Wed, 29 May 2013 00:16:25 -0700

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Prism Pack

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William-Adolphe Bouguereau

Sat, 04 May 2013 12:13:11 -0700

William-Adolphe Bouguereau

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arpeggia: Sculptures by Anna ter Haar

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 00:27:36 -0700

arpeggia:

Sculptures by Anna ter Haar

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Mon, 25 Mar 2013 17:20:04 -0700

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City of Dreams

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 00:19:17 -0700

City of Dreams

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Mon, 04 Mar 2013 17:24:26 -0800

Good god, these couches at the Hotel Pulitzer in Argentina are...

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 16:13:56 -0800

Good god, these couches at the Hotel Pulitzer in Argentina are exactly what I’d want if I was replacing our Case Study seating.

Marianne’s Playful Vintage Mix in Melbourne House Tour is...

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 16:11:18 -0800

Marianne’s Playful Vintage Mix in Melbourne House Tour is all about the small details.

oldbookillustrations: Underwater landscape of Crespo...

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 14:47:44 -0800

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Underwater landscape of Crespo Island.

From Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (Twenty thousand leagues under the seas), by Jules Verne, illustrated by Édouard Riou and Alphonse de Neuville, Paris, 1871.

(Source: archive.org)

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Tue, 26 Feb 2013 14:21:10 -0800

scientificillustration: rhamphotheca: When Whales Walked in...

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 14:12:58 -0800

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rhamphotheca:

When Whales Walked in Egypt

by Brian Switek (Nov. 2011)

If the German paleontologist Eberhard Fraas is remembered for anything, his efforts to discover and describe the impressive dinosaurs of Tanzania’s Tendaguru beds must be at the top of the list. Thanks to a tip about the site from local mining engineer Bernhard Wilhelm Sattler, in 1907 Fraas began to remove impressive Jurassic dinosaurs simultaneously strange and familiar.

The site was Africa’s own Late Jurassic graveyard — one full of spectacular creatures that seemed quite similar to Brachiosaurus, Allosaurus, Stegosaurus, and other dinosaurian celebrities found in North America’s ever-productive Morrison Formation. Fraas was delighted to find such a wonderful place –- the dinosaur bones “spoke in an eloquent language of the extinct primeval world”, he later wrote –- and the imposing Giraffatitan which stands in the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin is a reconstructed testament to Fraas’ efforts.

But Fraas was not solely focused on dinosaurs during his career. Several years before his journey to Tendaguru, Fraas described a peculiar creature that –- had it only been slightly more complete –- could have quickly closed a gap in our understanding of one of the greatest transitions in evolutionary history. Fraas called the animal Protocetus. It was one of the very earliest whales.

There wasn’t very much left of the original Protocetus specimen. Found in limestone deposits created on the floor of a 45-million-year-old sea where Cairo, Egypt, now sits, the archaic cetacean was represented by a nearly complete skull and a series of vertebrae from the neck down to the hip. No parts of the limbs were found…

(read more: Laelaps - Wired Science)

(illustration: A restoration of the protocetid whale Maiacetus. Though found in far from Aegyptocetus in Pakistan, Maiacetus represents the general form of the protocetid whales. Image modified from one posted to Flickr by the University of Michigan Museum of Natural History)

The paper is available for free here:

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02724634.2011.607985

1989

Sun, 10 Feb 2013 01:05:28 -0800

1989

Always lend a hand to the one you love.

Fri, 25 Jan 2013 14:14:27 -0800

Always lend a hand to the one you love.