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Saddened about the extinction of another Hawaiian snail, I made this print as a benefit for endangered Hawaiian snails.
Extinct horse. Florida Museum of Natural History. Gainesville, Florida.
Raising the extinct horse from the dead is a task similar to what governments are attempting to do right now with the corpse of capitalism. Capitalism is dead. No amount of desperation will resurrect capitalism. It is time to move on.
I'm sure that the ancient horse never imagined that its kind would ever go extinct. In the same way modern humans imagined that prosperity was their birthright and they would never lose it regardless of how recklessly they lived and how frivolously they wasted the world's resources.
In this world time only flows in one direction. Those things which die stay dead. Capitalism is gone. Technological civilization is crumbling. The American empire is dying.
Civilization's Terminal Depression has begun. If you think that times are bad wait until you see what's coming.
There is no happy ending. Humans have lived foolishly and self-destructively and our species will pay the ultimate price for its sins.
Humankind will become as extinct as this horse. The only difference is that there won't be any museums to preserve our memory in the post-human world.
Superdomain: Neomura
Domain: Eukaryota
(unranked): Unikonta
(unranked): Obazoa
(unranked): Opisthokonta
(unranked) Holozoa
(unranked) Filozoa
Kingdom: Animalia
Subkingdom: Eumetazoa
(unranked): Bilateria
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Superclass: Osteichthyes
Class: Actinopterygii
(unranked): Actinopteri
Subclass: Neopterygii
Infraclass: Holostei
Clade: Ginglymodi
Clade: Neoginglymodi
Order: Lepisosteiformes
Superfamily: Lepisosteoidea
Family: †Obaichthyidae
Genus: †Obaichthys
Species: †O. laevis
TEED (Totally Enourmous Extinct Dinosaurs) plays The Mod Club.
I covered it for blogTO and Tyler Burton's article:
www.blogto.com/music/2011/11/teed_touch_down_at_the_mod_c...
The wollemi pine reaches back to prehistoric times. It was thought to be extinct but was discovered in an isolated valley in the Wollemi National Park 200km from Sydney. The location is secret but a number of cuttings were taken from the original trees and have been grown and are now available to the general public.
| Pieridae: Colias ponteni |
It is uncertain where the species comes from (localities like Hawaiian Islands seems to be questionable) as it was never found again and is now considered most likely extinct.
- It was described in the year 1860.
Depiction: ‘A. G. Butler: Descriptions of some new Species and a new Genus of Pieridae; Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 250-254. 1871’ Wallengren
The first time this went up it was just in black and white. I love the concept of merging these two American icons.
It occurred to me that you rarely ever see an extinct bird, in this case the Great Auk, and sunflowers in the same picture, so I took this one.
This shot was taken from 'Walking with Dinosaurs' in Dec 2010.
Dad was with me & we both enjoy the show.
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Fossils of Tyrannosaurus rex are found in a variety of rock formations dating to the last two million years of the Cretaceous Period, 67 to 65.5 million years ago.
It was the largest known land predators, measuring up to 12.8 m (42 ft) in length,
up to 4 metres (13 ft) tall at the hips and up to 6.8 metric tons (7.5 short tons) in weight.
The debate about whether Tyrannosaurus was a predator or a pure scavenger is as old as the debate about its locomotion. Ever since the first discovery of Tyrannosaurus most scientists have speculated that it was a predator; like modern large predators it would readily scavenge or steal another predator's kill if it had the opportunity.
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Mandible of cave hyaena at Natural History Museum, London.
Crocuta crocuta spelaea Goldfuss, 1832
Hyaenidae
Carnivora
Skull of Acanthostega gunnari at Cambridge Zoology Museum.
Acanthostega gunnari
Acanthostegidae
Order incertae sedis
Superdomain: Neomura
Domain: Eukaryota
(unranked): Unikonta
(unranked): Obazoa
(unranked): Opisthokonta
(unranked) Holozoa
(unranked) Filozoa
Kingdom: Animalia
Subkingdom: Eumetazoa
(unranked): Bilateria
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Superclass: Osteichthyes
Clade: Sarcopterygii
Class: Dipnoi
Order: Ceratodontiformes
Family: †Gnathorhizidae
Genus: †Gnathorhiza
Species: †G. noblensis
Skull and jaw casts of Proconsul africanus, a Miocene primate, at Manchester Museum.
Proconsul africanus Hopwood, 1933
Proconsulidae
Primates
Mount Maunganui, or Mauao is an extinct volcanic cone at the end of a peninsula and the town of Mount Maunganui, by the eastern entrance to the Tauranga Harbour in New Zealand. A small island located off Mount Maunganui's main beach, Moturiki Island has been the site of Moturiki Pa, Moturiki Quarry, Marineland and Leisure Island. Today it is a protected reserve and home to a wide variety of wildlife which includes a colony of little blue penguins.
I have received official word that Ghirardelli has discontinued my favourite chocolate. (Also known as Milk Chocolate with Chocolate Filling, in bar form.)
I fell in love with this chocolate in the summer of 2003, when I first encountered it in Ghirardelli Square, San Francisco CA.
So sad. I was on a serious mission to get these all year with little luck (except a bar from Eric and a package thanks to Shirley!) All they have left are the ones with stuff in them, or the dark chocolate only. *sigh* I know it's not the end of the world, but I still feel sad about this.
I have two of these squares left, and now I'm afraid to eat them! What to do.......