The Truthiness Shall Set You Freak- New flying reptile species was one of largest ever flying animals September 28, 2019Cryodrakon boreas, from the Azhdarchid group of pterosaurs (often incorrectly called ‘pterodactyls’), was a flying reptile with a wingspan of up to 10 metres which lived during the Cretaceous period around 77 million years ago. Its remains were discovered 30 … Continue reading →
- Fancy & freaky fucking footwear! August 31, 2019Along with some other lower limb oddities.
- My Building Museum July 29, 2019After my HASF posters post I received several requests for views of the rest of the building. Since I became manager in the 1990s I have turned it into a museum of San Francisco & California memorabilia. The tour starts … Continue reading →
- Haight Ashbury Street Fair Posters July 25, 2019Today I finally got around to hanging up my rather extensive Haight Ashbury Street Fair poster collection. Every year the Fair holds a contest to select the poster and the artist gets $500. I also included a couple of … Continue reading →
- For Sale: 1939 Porsche Type 64 July 8, 20191939 Porsche Type 64 RM | Sotheby’s – MONTEREY 15 – 17 AUGUST 2019 A strive for technological advancement in motor car performance drove the motorsport industry in the 1920s and 1930s, resulting in some of the most iconic race … Continue reading →
- Scored a Righteous T @ Haight Ashbury Today July 6, 2019
- San Francisco MUNI in the 1970s June 28, 2019When I moved here in 1976 I was dating a woman who lived on Russian Hill and after being fortunate enough to spend the night with her I would take the cable car to my job near Union Square. I … Continue reading →
- TAKE LSD AND SEE 💡 June 28, 2019This concrete parking strip on Haight Street near Masonic Ave was installed in 1968. As part of the new improvement plan the section with this graffiti was removed and tomorrow it will likely be demolished. To take a few last pictures … Continue reading →
- An Ex-Army Medic’s Collection June 19, 2019
- Astronomers Make Massive Discovery on the Far Side of the Moon | Smithsonian June 15, 2019A 1,200-mile-wide crater on the far side of the moon was formed when a huge asteroid with a heavy metal core smashed into the lunar surface billions of years ago. When that happened, the asteroid drilled through layers of the … Continue reading →
- New flying reptile species was one of largest ever flying animals September 28, 2019
Tag Archives: Earth Science
Is This The Best Raffle Prize Ever Or What?!
Doug and Sally Beitz from Australia were owners of a tropical island in the middle of the sea near Papua New Guinea. After 20 years of running Kosrae Nautilus Resort, they decided to sell it. But they didn’t want just … Continue reading
Why Do Turtles Have Shells? – The Atlantic
Travel back in time to 260 million years ago, just before the dawn of the dinosaur era. Journey to what is now South Africa, and make your way to a river bank. Then, wait. If you’re lucky, you might see … Continue reading
Brooks Falls – Katmai National Park, Alaska – Bears – explore
I just watched this mama bear catch a salmon and feed her three cubs on a live bearcam at Katmai National Park in Alaska: You can watch the live webcam below or go to the link at the … Continue reading
Never-Before-Seen Photos Of Fukushima’s Ghost Town (27 pics)
Urban explorer and photographer Keow Wee Loong illegally visited abandoned settlements around the Fukushima Daichii nuclear power plant and produced a series of photos of a post-apocalyptic world inhabited only by feral beasts. The Malaysian photographer said that he didn’t … Continue reading
How Animals See the World
As far as I could trace it, this was created by Imgur/Reddit user Mikepants I wish it went a little slower so here it is cut into 3 parts: How animals see the world: Source Source 2 Source 3
99-Million-Year-Old Bird Wings Found Encased in Amber | Smithsonian
The rare fossils from the age of the dinosaurs look a lot like modern-day bird wings. Finding things trapped in amber is far from a rare occurrence: lizards, bugs, flowers and more are regularly found encased in hardened lumps of the tree resin. But when … Continue reading
Every Sperm Whale Alive Today May Have Descended From the Same Female
At some point in the last 80,000 years, became the “mother” of all sperm whales who followed. Though it would make sense to have a single mother in a single area—an ancestor who, say, really loved the Pacific Ocean—this mom’s … Continue reading
DNA confirms Nile crocodiles found in Florida
Step aside, Burmese python — you may no longer be Florida’s scariest invasive species. Using DNA analysis, University of Florida researchers have confirmed the capture of multiple Nile crocodiles in the wild. The ancient icon eats everything from zebras to … Continue reading
Living Color IX (Beautiful Images from Earth)
Most of these are in my screensaver file, a nice reminder that this is a very lovely universe.
Mammal-like reptile survived much longer than thought
Tritylodontids are the last known family of near-mammalian reptiles, before mammals with features such as advanced hearing evolved. Researchers have uncovered dozens of fossilized teeth in Kuwajima, Japan and identified this as a new species of tritylodontid. This suggests that … Continue reading
Stannous Flouride's Book of Truthiness 