Squishables! (via Bora).
There is nothing more adorable than a girl and her snail.
Is that Oswald? Oh wait, its the Deep Sea News token cephalopod squishy! Hi There!
Peter is a little in touch with his sensitive side though. He might prefer some furry mammal like a whale or something dumb like that.
Even on land, whales are swimming in a sea of plastic...
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Paleontologists have found a new fossil of a whale ancestor - and its announced just after I finish watching my preview DVD of Nat Geo's Morphed on whale evolution. I smell fate.
Anyhow, the new whale predecessor was unveiled in a PLoS One article this week. Donned "Maiacetus inuus", the species…
The extinct whale Dorudon, from the new PLoS One paper.
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An article released moments ago in PLoS ONE, by Gingerich et al., describes one of the more interesting fossil discoveries ever.
To cut right to the conclusion: We now have reason to believe that the proto-whale Maiacetus inuus, a true transitional form, gave birth on land, not in the water.…
I *heart* Killer Whales!
Hmmm... methinks a "colony" of O. roseus plushies would be just the thing!
I am thinking of getting myself a shark, since there is no quail (and the rooster is, well, .....).
I have to have one of those snails. I can overlook the surfeit of feet.