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  1. RT @history_geek DNA shows tuna in sushi is not tuna. RT @wiredscience http://bit.ly/6qL99K about 1 hour ago from web
  2. Woke up feeling like I had been hit by a bus. Checked around the bed - no tire tracks to be seen. about 2 hours ago from web
  3. @canislatrans Books on extinction remind me of contingency, like whether there would be pozole would exist if P/Tr extinction didn't happen about 12 hours ago from web in reply to canislatrans
  4. For more on Babbage & his work - http://tinyurl.com/yk4pjlz about 17 hours ago from web
  5. Reading Babbage's '9the Bridgewater' for background for chapter on Darwin. I love old books! http://tinyurl.com/ygj289l about 17 hours ago from web
  6. Return of the 'Age of Reptiles' http://tinyurl.com/qa5b62 about 22 hours ago from web
  7. Sivatherium: A giraffe with a trunk? http://tinyurl.com/ygo3r5w 7:03 AM Nov 20th from web
  8. RT @friendsofdarwin @bbcscitech Giraffes use a small, supercharged heart to pump blood up the neck to the head http://tinyurl.com/yjyy3pq 5:10 AM Nov 20th from web
  9. Photo of the Day - Nyala http://tinyurl.com/yh5v6zu 3:26 AM Nov 20th from web
  10. @edyong209 Definitely a neat method. It just doesn't resolve things jsut yet. Lots of work still needed to understand individual NA taxa 2:33 PM Nov 19th from web in reply to edyong209
  11. @canislatrans IIRC there was a handful of small taxa (bat, canid &c) that disappeared, but I agree. The impact hypothesis doesn't make sense 2:31 PM Nov 19th from web in reply to canislatrans
  12. @canislatrans But don't you see? An invasion of cartoony blowfish were responsible. It makes perfect sense! (Srsly, sorry for the bad link!) 2:23 PM Nov 19th from web in reply to canislatrans
  13. Lack of resolution confounds debate over Pleistocene mass extinction http://tinyurl.com/y9o993l (fixed link) 2:22 PM Nov 19th from web
  14. Human? Or giant salamander? - The Witness to the Deluge http://tinyurl.com/y8l5qtz 2:06 PM Nov 19th from web
  15. Personally, I think it's pretty stupid to be looking for a single cause for the extinction. Climate and humans, at least, were involved 1:38 PM Nov 19th from web
  16. Lack of resolution still confounds debate over Pleistocene mass extinction http://bit.ly/1FWTiht @adhominin 1:37 PM Nov 19th from web
  17. RT @screek The winners of the NWF magazine's 39th annual wildlife photography competition http://bit.ly/jxskz 1:33 PM Nov 19th from web
  18. Fossils of five "oddball" crocodilia from @NatGeoSociety http://tinyurl.com/yfu4nx3 9:57 AM Nov 19th from web
  19. RT @TomLevenson @PD_Smith "...she felt sleekly muscled, like a dolphin might..." Bad Sex in Fiction award http://bit.ly/137kQj 9:56 AM Nov 19th from web
  20. Texans banned gay marriage, but did they nullify heterosexual marriage in the process? http://tinyurl.com/yhzboqb 9:55 AM Nov 19th from web
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  • Bio A perpetual student of nature, author of 'Written in Stone'
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