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Tidgy's Dad

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Our front door is well guarded tonight
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I love scorpions.
Dozens of species here.
But not usually near my house thankfully.
Only seen two in my garden in 11 years, the big black one that are not very poisonous.
It's a little orange-brown one here that is the most dangerous.
 

Tidgy's Dad

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I guess Mr Sulu is invisible to you?
OH!!! Dang! A woman knows when she has been bettered!!!! The groveling will shortly commence.
No, Hikaru Sulu was an American, born in San Francisco.
George Takei is also of course an American but born in LA.
 

Tidgy's Dad

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cigarette paper fact... scientists have evidence that jellyfish have been roaming our oceans for about 500 million years!

.... bet they thought they would be used as luminous frisbees though! ;)


(flings a few)
Here is a photograph of one of my fossil jellyfish, very rare as they're pretty soft and don't usually preserve like bones, teeth and shells.
This is Medusina mawoni and is about 506 million years old.
That's over half a billion years, folks, a time before life on land or any organisms with hard parts, everything was soft bodied.
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The second image is the same specimen from a book I helped with when I was 12 years old.
I was already famous in my field. :)
(my field was near Cheddar in Somerset).
 

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i have actually started to wonder if the degus prefer to run counter, or clockwise! ... or towards each other View attachment 184160

(renovation day tomorrow)
They probably run counter-clockwise in the Northern hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere, like the hurricanes do!;)
 

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Here is a photograph of one of my fossil jellyfish, very rare as they're pretty soft and don't usually preserve like bones, teeth and shells.
This is Medusina mawoni and is about 506 million years old.
That's over half a billion years, folks, a time before life on land or any organisms with hard parts, everything was soft bodied.
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The second image is the same specimen from a book I helped with when I was 12 years old.
I was already famous in my field. :)
(my field was near Cheddar in Somerset).
Paleontology is fascinating to me!
So is geology: I've been following an online course on The 36 Geologic Wonders of the World: watching it when I walk on the treadmill! It makes the treadmill less boring, since I'm not a degu! ;)
 

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