the most interesting thing is the tiny bit of its skin found.
rosette like pattern.
I wonder what color it was.
I guess it had multiple camouflage patterns.
I wonder if any dna could be extracted from the find.
if only we could find a dino trapped in ice but damnit…the polar caps were practically non existent during the dinosaur age.
that’s old news bro.
I first heard of that years ago.
How our solar system is moving through space
^thats freakin cool as fuck
Reminds me of a Hadouken lol :lol:
One can fire ten arrows in less than 10 seconds (or 5 seconds in this case):
http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2013/09/25/praying-mantis-mimics-flower-to-trick-prey/
Damn you, Nature.
Bumping the correct thread.
Climate change deniers banned from posting in /r/Science
Results are excellent!
Robot for no reason:
Convert wet algae to crude oil process commercialization underway:
http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1t5ghf/algae_to_crude_oil_millionyear_natural_process/
For those who aren’t viewing this excellent series already I highly recommend you guys watch Big History on, you guessed it, The History Channel. I delves into the interconnectedness of all things and how it shapes our existence. Pretty deep stuff.
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/dec/20/conservative-groups-1bn-against-climate-change
From the abstract of the study in question:
So much spent on undermining and confusing people’s understanding of scientific issues. Imagine spending it on… well, anything else.
THis is old but I’m interested in reading up more on the topic
What Happened to the Hominids Who May Have Been Smarter Than Us?
http://discovermagazine.com/2009/the-brain-2/28-what-happened-to-hominids-who-were-smarter-than-us#.UrOfOFWzKph
I think we drastically underestimate the necessity of balance between intellect and pure animal instinct when it comes to the role of the brain in the original survival of humans. We had no claws or sharp teeth and our bodies were feeble and slow, so we needed the capacity to make tools and plan for things. But our primitive inner lizard brains needed to be powerful enough to override everything else when it came time to stop fucking around and run from the leopard. Perhaps those hominids had a little too much curiosity and rationality for their own good.
tl;dr This.
Five mysteries of the brain
I have no issue with cognitive enhancers, hoping one day soon we’ll have drugs like that featured in Limitless freely available.
Forget brains. Did you know we have the biggest dicks in the primate kingdom?
Yes, I know primates are an order, not a kingdom. You cannot out-erudite me.
Yes, I know “erudite” is an adjective, not a verb. See above.
Yup, a product of bipedalism. We also don’t have a bone in our penis like other mammals possess to stay erect.
Honestly, I don’t think the factors for their extinction were that complicated. Their brains were roughly 20-25% larger than our own, which means that they needed a significant amount of calories to keep such an organ running efficiently. The modern human brain already uses 25% of our daily calories at rest; so comparatively, the ratio of calories needed to sustain a brain 1/4th larger than modern humans, in an age where hunter-gathering was the only means for supplementation was copious and inevitably took its toll on the species.
Conversely, the stocky and super-strong Neanderthals needed at speculated 8,000 calories a day just to break even, so one can imagine how much of struggle it was for them to sustain themselves once they had to compete with us for the same resources.