Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
- Jean Paul Richter
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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
- Jean Paul Richter
tags: Hutton's Vireo, Vireo huttoni, birds, mystery bird, bird ID quiz
[Mystery bird] Hutton's Vireo, Vireo huttoni, photographed in Boyce Thompson Arboretum, Superior, AZ. [I will identify this bird for you tomorrow]
Image: Richard Ditch, 2008 [larger view].
Please name at least one field mark…
Events
1977 - The Apollo program’s ALSEP experiment packages left on the Moon are terminated.
2004 - The first images of a live giant squid in its natural habitat are taken. PZ Myers is ecstatic.
Births
1530 - Geronimo Mercuriali, Italian philologist and physician
1870 - Jean Baptiste Perrin,…
In the previous post we looked at the feathers and filament-like structures that covered the bodies of coelurosaurian theropods. While basal coelurosaurs - compsognathids and tyrannosauroids - possessed filament-like 'Stage 1' structures alone, members of Maniraptora (the coelurosaur clade that…