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For those following the saga of Oculudentavis (the beautiful tiny dinosaur preserved in amber that turned out to be a lizard), three more things.

New PapersNomenclaturePaleontologists Behaving BadlyStinkin' LizardsStinkin' TheropodsSciences de la terre et de l'environnementAnglais
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Back in March, Nature published “Hummingbird-sized dinosaur from the Cretaceous period of Myanmar” by Xing et al. (2020), which described and named a tiny putative bird that was preserved in amber from Myanmar (formerly Burma). It’s a pretty spectacular find.

ArtBrian EnghDilophosaurusPneumaticityStinkin' HeadsSciences de la terre et de l'environnementAnglais
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Auteur Matt Wedel

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Look, This Isn't ComplicatedSciences de la terre et de l'environnementAnglais
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Mark Witton says this better than I could: Like many white folks, I have traditionally assumed that simply not being racist was doing my part, and that the actions of others would eventually convert society at large to seeing race as the non-issue it should be. I have also felt that, as a white, straight […]

GiraffeHands Used As Scale BarsStinkin' Appendicular ElementsStinkin' MammalsStinkin' SV-POW!sketeersSciences de la terre et de l'environnementAnglais
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Auteur Matt Wedel

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Credit: anonymous tattoo, Grant Harding for the caption. Update. Here is the Instagram post that Grant got this from. Unfortunately it seems to be from an account that specialises in reposting others’ work without attribution, so we don’t know where the tattoo photo originated.