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With its lineage pretty evident, a former UP E9A is at the IHB's Blue Island Yard awaiting movement east via Conrail to Naporano Iron & Metal in New Jersey for scrapping. 01/11/80--Tom Golden photo
I think the back building was the original homestead. In the distance are the Big Horn Mountains which if in the house you could see quite well. Johnson County, WY where the Johnson County Cattle War took place www.wyohistory.org/essays/johnson-county-war-1892-invasio... Happy Fence Friday!
The Grábrók volcano is further away. Note the two guys on its brim. They have a grand view from where they stand. Often, during the summer time, groups of tourists seek to this spot.
These volcanoes are the Easternmost on a fissure that stretches along the Snæfellsnes peninsula, which is famous worldwide for its diversity of volcanoes. Here is one of the more original kind: www.flickr.com/photos/coldpix/4524851207/in/set-721576238...
175005 passes Little Stretton fin Shropshire forming 1W48, the 06.35 Cardiff Central-Manchester Piccadilly service on 8 April 2022. Built by Alstom, these comfortable and stylish Class 175 ‘Coradia’ DMUs are no longer in service with TfW or indeed any other operator.
Confinement jour 43 / Lockdown Day 43
En direct des studios de confinement avant fermeture...
Photophore "boule de neige" en verre, de la manufacture Kosta Boda, souvenir d’une belle année suédoise (1986)
Quarante trois jours, c’est très long... Mes photos s’appauvrissent, mes textes s’étiolent, et tout cela tourne en rond dans le (co)vide de ma pensée du moment, de plus en plus rongée par le manque, à moyen-terme, d'horizon social, culturel et voyageur.
J'ai toujours fui à toutes jambes les réseaux prétendus "sociaux", portés par l’autosatisfaction nombriliste ("regardez tous comme je suis beau") et l’autocongratulation réciproque et forcée ("oui, tu es vraiment magnifique, merci pour le partage") donc il me paraîtrait surréaliste de sombrer à mon tour dans les travers post-adolescents de ce monde virtuel, fugace, et superficiel, que je n’aime pas beaucoup...
Et puis, et surtout, je ne tiendrai pas encore douze longs jours de détention semi-volontaire, à ce rythme quotidien et "contraint" d’une photo, si possible pas trop moche (plus gagné d'avance, faute de liberté) et d’un texte si possible pas trop c... (définitivement perdu, faute de talent littéraire)
Je me place donc délibérément en mode “pause” (ou "pose longue" en photo) à partir de demain et jusqu’au déconfinement...(le 11 mai... ou plus si affinités !)
Si je réussis péniblement à produire une ou deux photos "montrables" (traduction = pas trop moches) dans les jours qui suivent, je les publierai, au compte-gouttes et après une sélection draconienne et sans concession.
Cette sage décision me permet déjà de penser à mon inspiration photo et à mes voyages des "jours d’après"...
Et cette perspective va vraiment me motiver dans la dernière ligne droite de ma détention !
Certes, les tristes prophètes hygiénistes, idéologues ou écologistes des médias et de la politique profitent désormais de leur temps de parole (inespéré avant le virus) pour occuper largement le paysage audio-visuel, et nous y annoncer la proximité de la fin de l'ancien monde, voire la fin du monde tout-court, et nous assurer avec conviction que rien ne sera plus jamais comme avant…
Mais j’espère bien que non, et que tout sera à nouveau (presque) comme avant, en 2021...
Les soi-disant prévisionnistes de l’avenir se sont toujours trompés depuis des siècles !
C'est la seule statistique rassurante du moment !
Et puis, ce n’était pas si mal que ça avant, non ?
J'espère que vous en avez encore quelques souvenirs ? 😊
Bonne fin de confinement et "Take care"
Le journal complet du confinement et des chroniques de la guerre :
Hobby, fossil collecting, paleontology. Northern Kentucky. Ordovician, Approximately 450 million years old. The area represented here is about an inch and a half. Fossilized debris much as it appeared on the floor of a shallow inland sea that once covered what is now Northern Kentucky. Pieces of shell, crinoid stem segments, and bryozoa are all present representing a vast network of life that existed long before animals ventured onto land.
...as with the individual, so with the species, the hour of life has run its course, and is spent. - Charles Darwin, 'The Voyage of the Beagle'
On an unrecorded day in the 1760s, the last Steller's sea cow (Rhytina borealis) died. Before the 18thC human hunters began killing the species, a gigantic manatee, for fur and fat oil. Russian explorers discovered the sea cow in 1741, and in less than 30 years the fur traders who followed up on this discovery had hunted the animals to extinction.
The death of the last sea cow in a lonely corner of the North Pacific in the 1760s was precisely the event that provoked discussions of extinction beginning in the 1780s, at a time when the dodo was still commonly thought to be either imaginary or still extant..('Empire of Extinction' Ryan Tucker Jones)
This is NOT a replica skeleton.
Compare these images. All are cephalopods, same family as squids, Ammonites are extinct, nautilus has existed for 500 million years and is till around. Both controlled their buoyancy by filling the shell chambers with water or gas. The chambered shell is known as a phragmacone, in some of the segments of the nautilus you can see siphuncle, which connected each chamber and regulated the buoyancy. The ammonite keel would have floated horizontally, the nautilus floats with a vertical keel.
I guess we'll find out soon enough!
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Front shop window of Tora Sumi, a tattoo studio and art gallery.
Tora Sumi Art + Ink, Balmain, Sydney
Bodiam Castle (/ˈboʊdiəm/) is a 14th-century moated castle near Robertsbridge in East Sussex, England. It was built in 1385 by Sir Edward Dalyngrigge, a former knight of Edward III, with the permission of Richard II, ostensibly to defend the area against French invasion during the Hundred Years' War. Of quadrangular plan, Bodiam Castle has no keep, having its various chambers built around the outer defensive walls and inner courts. Its corners and entrance are marked by towers, and topped by crenellations. Its structure, details and situation in an artificial watery landscape indicate that display was an important aspect of the castle's design as well as defence. It was the home of the Dalyngrigge family and the centre of the manor of Bodiam.
Possession of Bodiam Castle passed through several generations of Dalyngrigges, until their line became extinct, when the castle passed by marriage to the Lewknor family. During the Wars of the Roses, Sir Thomas Lewknor supported the House of Lancaster, and when Richard III of the House of York became king in 1483, a force was despatched to besiege Bodiam Castle. It is unrecorded whether the siege went ahead, but it is thought that Bodiam was surrendered without much resistance. The castle was confiscated, but returned to the Lewknors when Henry VII of the House of Lancaster became king in 1485. Descendants of the Lewknors owned the castle until at least the 16th century.
By the start of the English Civil War in 1641, Bodiam Castle was in the possession of Lord Thanet. He supported the Royalist cause, and sold the castle to help pay fines levied against him by Parliament. The castle was subsequently dismantled, and was left as a picturesque ruin until its purchase by John Fuller in 1829. Under his auspices, the castle was partially restored before being sold to George Cubitt, 1st Baron Ashcombe, and later to Lord Curzon, both of whom undertook further restoration work. The castle is protected as a Grade I listed building and Scheduled Monument. It has been owned by The National Trust since 1925, donated by Lord Curzon on his death, and is open to the public.
The castle's location was ostensibly chosen to protect England's south coast from raids by the French. A landscape survey by the Royal Commission for Historic Monuments concluded that if this were the case, then Bodiam Castle was unusually sited, as it is far from the medieval coastline.
The area surrounding Bodiam Castle was landscaped when the castle was built, to increase its aesthetic appeal. Archaeologists Oliver Creighton and Robert Higham have described Bodiam as one of the best examples of landscaping to emphasise a castle. The water features were originally extensive, but only the moat survives, along with the earthworks left over from its construction. Roughly rectangular, the moat is supplied by several springs, some of them within it, which made it difficult to drain during the excavations of the 1930s. A moat can prevent attackers from gaining access to the base of a castle's walls, but in the case of Bodiam it also had the effect of making the castle appear larger and more impressive by isolating it in its landscape. The moat is now regarded more as an ornamental feature than a defence. The approach to the castle through the moat and satellite ponds was indirect, giving visitors time to view the castle in its intended splendour. Military historian Cathcart King describes the approach as formidable, and considers it the equal of the 13th-century castles of Edward I in Wales, such as Caerphilly Castle.
The castle sits roughly in the middle of the moat. The postern gate at the rear would have been connected to the moat's south bank by a drawbridge and a long timber bridge. The main entrance on the north side of the castle is today connected to the north bank by a wooden bridge, but the original route would have included two bridges: one from the main entrance to an island in the moat, and another connecting the island to the west bank. For the most part the bridge was static, apart from the section closest to the west bank, which would have been a drawbridge. The island in the moat is called the Octagon, and excavations on it have uncovered a garderobe (toilet), suggesting that there may have been a guard on the island, although it is unclear to what extent it was fortified. The Octagon was connected to a barbican by a bridge, probably a drawbridge. The castle's 28 toilets drained directly into the moat, which in the words of archaeologist Matthew Johnson would have been effectively an "open sewer".
A quadrangular castle, Bodiam is roughly square-shaped. This type of castle, with a central courtyard and buildings against the curtain wall, was characteristic of castle architecture in the 14th century. Bodiam Castle has been described by military historian Cathcart King as the most complete surviving example of a quadrangular castle. There are circular towers at each of the four corners, with square central towers in the south, east, and west walls. The main entrance is a twin-towered gatehouse in the north face of the castle. There is a second entrance from the south; the postern gate is through a square tower in the middle of the south wall. The towers are three storeys high, taller than the curtain walls and the buildings in the castle which are two storeys high.
Between the Octagon and the main gatehouse in the north wall was a barbican, of which little survives – just a piece of the west wall – although the structure was originally two storeys high. The surviving fabric includes a slot for a portcullis for the barbican's north gate, although there are no hinges for gates. The base of a garderobe demonstrates that second storey would have provided space for habitation, probably a guard room. Drawings from the late 18th century show the ground floor of the barbican still standing and includes detail such as vaulting inside the passageway.
The gatehouse in the castle's north wall is three storeys high; now reached by a static bridge, it was originally connected to the barbican by a drawbridge. The top of the gatehouse is machicolated, and the approach is overlooked by gun-loops in the gatehouse towers. The gatehouse is the only part of the castle which has gun-loops, and the curtain wall and towers are studded with windows for domestic use rather than military. There are guardrooms on the ground floor and a basement beneath them. The passage would originally have had three wooden portcullises. Above the entrance passage is an arch in the gateway, although it leads nowhere. The ceiling of the passage through the gatehouse into the castle is vaulted and pierced with murder-holes. Murder-holes were most likely used to drop objects on attackers, similar to machicolations, or to pour water to extinguish fires.
Just above the gate, there are three coats of arms carved in relief into the arch; from left to right they are the arms of the Wardeux, Dalyngrigge, and Radynden families. The Wardeux family was that of Edward Dalyngrigge's wife; the Radyndens were relations of the Dalyngrigges. Above the arms is a helm bearing a unicorn head crest. Three coats of arms also decorate the postern gate; the central arms is that of Sir Robert Knolles, who Edward Dalyngrigge had fought for in the Hundred Years' War, but those flanking it are blank.
(Wikipedia)
Bodiam Castle [ˌbəʊdiəm ˈkɑːsɫ̩] ist eine gut erhaltene Burgruine in East Sussex, England.
Der aus einer alten Sussexer Familie stammende Sir Edward Dallingridge, der für Eduard III. in Frankreich gekämpft hatte, war durch seine Heirat mit Elizabeth, der Erbin von Wardedieu (Wardeux), deren Familie schon seit den 1330er Jahren im Besitz des Anwesens von Bodiam war, 1378 in den Besitz des Gutes gekommen. Es bestand im Wesentlichen aus einem Gutshaus im Tal nördlich der Kirche von Bodiam, dessen Grundmauern bei archäologischen Ausgrabungen in den 1960er und 1970er Jahren gefunden wurden sowie einem zweiten Gebäude, das sich nördlich oberhalb der heutigen Burg befand. Als Ritter in der Grafschaft von Sussex (Knight in the Shire of Sussex) war Dalyngrigge Mitglied von zehn Parlamenten von 1379 bis 1388 und zweifellos eine der einflussreicheren Persönlichkeiten der Umgebung in dieser Zeit gewesen. Im Jahr 1380 wurde er Mitglied der Kommission zur Prüfung des Standes des Königreiches und der Besitztümer, Ausgaben und Einnahmen des königlichen Hausehaltes (Commission considering the state of the realm and the possessions, expenses and revenues of the royal household). Im gleichen Jahr wurde er zur Begutachtung von Winchelsea sowie zur Untersuchung bestellt, wie die Stadt besser gegen Frankreich befestigt werden könne. Neben der Bedrohung durch eine Invasion bestanden aber auch Gefahren im Innern des Landes. 1381 hatten sich Bauern aus Kent, Essex, Sussex und Bedfordshire in einer Revolte erhoben, auf ihrem Marsch auf London zahlreiche Gutshäuser zerstört, den Tower von London überrannt und den Erzbischof Sudbury geköpft. Auch wenn der Aufstand sehr schnell von den Gefolgsleuten Richard II. niedergeschlagen werden konnte, gab es auch in den Folgejahren immer wieder ein Aufflackern des Widerstandes. Im Jahr 1383 erhielt Sir Edward Dalyngrigge die königliche Genehmigung zum Abhalten eines Wochenmarktes auf seinem Besitz in Bodiam. 1385 erfolgte die königliche Lizenz zur Befestigung seines Landsitzes durch Richard II.:
„Know that of our special grace we have granted and given license on behalf of ourselves and our heirs, so far as in us lies, to our beloved and faithful Edward Dalyngrigge Knight, that he may strengthen with a wall of stone and lime, and crenellate and, construct and make into a Castle his manor house Bodyham, near the sea, in the county of Sussex, for defence of the adjacent country, and, resistance to our enemies.“
(deutsche Übersetzung: "Wisset, dass aus unserer besonderen Gnade wir erlaubt und die Genehmigung in unserem und unserer Erben Namen gegeben haben, so weit es in uns liegt, unserem geliebten und treuen Ritter Eduard Dalyngrigge, dass er mit einer Mauer aus Stein und Kalk, und Zinnen verstärken, und erbauen und zu einer Burg sein Herrenhaus Bodyham machen darf, nahe der See, im Land von Sussex, zur Verteidigung des angrenzenden Landes und zum Widerstand gegen unsere Feinde...")
Doch er ließ eine neue Wasserburg nahe seinem aus Holz gefertigten Herrenhaus nicht fern dem Fluss Rother errichten. Hinzu kam zur gleichen Zeit eine weitere Lizenz, einen Wasserlauf von Dalyngreggesbay nördlich in Saleshurst nach Bodiam zu leiten, um dort eine Wassermühle zu betreiben. Dalyngrigge hat die ersten Bauarbeiten wohl nicht selbst beaufsichtigen können, da er zwischen 1386 und 1387 Hafenkaptain der französischen Stadt Brest war. Etwa um 1392 waren die Arbeiten an der Burg beendet, Sir Edward Dalyngrigge starb allerdings bereits wenige Jahre später im Jahr 1395.
Um 1473 fiel der Besitz nach Aussterben der Dalyngriggelinie durch Heirat Philippa Dalyngrigges an die Familie Lewknor. Während der Rosenkriege unterstützte Sir Thomas Lewknor das Haus Lancaster. Richard III. (Haus York) befahl 1483 die Belagerung der Burg durch Thomas Howard, 2. Duke of Norfolk, wegen fehlender Aufzeichnungen nimmt der Archäologe David Thackray an, die Burg sei widerstandslos übergeben und vom König konfisziert worden. Ein königlicher Konstabler verwaltete die Burg. 1485 gab König Heinrich VII. die Burg an die Familie Lewknor zurück, die sie bis ins 16. Jahrhundert hielt. Die übrigen Ländereien folgten bis 1542 in den Familienbesitz. 1588 erwarb John Levett aus Salehurst Burg Bodiam, 1623 kaufte sie Nicolas Tufton, 1. Earl of Thanet. Sein Sohn John Tufton, 2. Earl of Thanet, erbte das Anwesen 1631, konnte 1639 Burg und übrigen Besitz wiedervereinen, musste aber 1644 wegen einer hohen Strafzahlung an das Parlament von £9.000 (heutiger Wert: £1.300.000) die Burg an den Parlamentsabgeordneten Nathaniel Powell, der 1661 von Karl II. zum Baronet erhoben wurde, veräußern. 1675 erbte Elizabeth Clitherow, Schwiegertochter von Nathaniel Powell, dem 2. Baronet, die Burg, die bis 1722 in deren Familie blieb.
Neuere Forschungen gehen jedoch davon aus, dass die Burg mehr zur Demonstration als für tatsächliche Kampfhandlungen gebaut wurde. Dafür spricht, dass die Zinnen zu niedrig sind, um dahinterstehende Männer vor Geschossen zu schützen, und dass der Wassergraben vermutlich von wenigen Belagerern innerhalb einiger Stunden trockengelegt werden kann, da er an einer Stelle nur durch einen dünnen Erdstreifen von einem größeren Gefälle getrennt ist.
Burg Bodiam ist rundum von einem breiten Wassergraben umgeben. An der Nordseite befindet sich der rechteckige Torturm mit Haupteingang, Brücke und beidseitigen Wachunterkünften. Vier mächtige Rundtürme von 9,4 Metern Durchmesser markieren die Eckpunkte der fast quadratischen Burganlage von 50 Metern mal 60 Metern (Nord-Süd). In der Mitte des West- und Osttraktes steht jeweils ein rechteckiger Turm. Im nördlichen Teil des Osttraktes befindet sich die Burgkapelle. An der Südseite steht ein zentraler Turm (postern tower) mit einem zweiten Ausgang, rechts davon der große Saal. Dort im Südtrakt sind auch die Wirtschaftsgebäude wie Küche, Speisen- und Getränkekammern untergebracht. Die Burg war, nicht nur für die damalige Zeit, auf Wunsch des Bauherrn sehr komfortabel für alle Bewohner eingerichtet, es gab 33 Feuerstellen bzw. Kamine, 10 Wendeltreppen und 28 Aborterker. Der Westtrakt war für den eigenen Haushalt des ständigen Vertreters des Burgherrn (Burgvogt) vorgesehen. Im Südwestturm ist ein Brunnen eingelassen, der Nordwestturm beherbergte das Burggefängnis. Das Burginnere wurde während des Englischen Bürgerkriegs weitgehend zerstört.
Die Burg wurde von George Curzon, 1. Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, restauriert und kam 1925 zum National Trust.
Bodiam Castle ist in dem Film Die Ritter der Kokosnuß von Monty Python zu sehen. In der TV-Miniserie "Northanger Abbey" (BBC, 1986) nach Jane Austen dient das Gebäude als Kulisse der titelgebenden Familienbehausung der Familie Tilney und lässt die Hauptfigur Katherine Morland wahre Horrorgeschichten à la Ann Radcliffe imaginieren (z. B. "The Mysteries of Udolpho").
(Wikipedia)
Extinct birds also migrate, but to the other side. Since a camera never lies then this must be true.
220 was retained with ADEs last year, with a thought of them being at least compliant, but according to a driver that RATP thought these were Euro 6 but they weirdly aren’t, which is kinda doesn’t make sense if they retain a route of compliant diesels but then they replace them, I don’t mind the hybrid conversion as the BT13/BD13s and G3s can have a good mix with an ADE here and there.
Looking into the Valle de Anton volcanic crater, from beside Highway 71, Panama 18 Apr 2025. Last erupted 56,000 years ago.
looking south over teviotdale at dusk, from chaplehill. towards the bold ruberslaw, an extinct volcano, and former roman signal station, with the town deep down in the valley about 5 mls away, then onwards towards the cheviots. hawick, scottish borders, scotland.
This fossilized extinct arthropod sits on my desk....he's only about 500 million years old.
Trilobite, any member of a group of extinct fossil arthropods easily recognized by their distinctive three-lobed, three-segmented form. Trilobites, exclusively marine animals, first appeared at the beginning of the Cambrian Period, about 542 million years ago, when they dominated the seas. Although they became less abundant in succeeding geologic periods, a few forms persisted into the Permian Period, which ended about 251 million years ago.
Trilobites had three body lobes, two of which lay on each side of a longitudinal axial lobe. The trilobite body was segmented and divided into three regions from head to tail: the cephalon, or head region, separated from the thorax, which was followed in turn by the pygidium, or tail region. Trilobites, like other arthropods, had an external skeleton, called exoskeleton, composed of chitinous material. For the animal to grow, the exoskeleton had to be shed, and shed trilobite exoskeletons, or portions of them, are fossils that are relatively common.
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Every afternoon the elephants are treated to a bath in the rivers of Tangakahan in North Sumatra. This particular afternoon this elephant shared it's bath time with a small child. I love this photo because of the look the child is giving the elephant. A lot can be taken away from reading the boys expression. I document the plight of the Sumatran elephant and this photo with this boys expression seems to radiate a lot of empathy for their dire situation.
...as with the individual, so with the species, the hour of life has run its course, and is spent. - Charles Darwin, 'The Voyage of the Beagle'
On an unrecorded day in the 1760s, the last Steller's sea cow (Rhytina borealis) died. Before the 18thC human hunters began killing the species, a gigantic manatee, for fur and fat oil. Russian explorers discovered the sea cow in 1741, and in less than 30 years the fur traders who followed up on this discovery had hunted the animals to extinction.
The death of the last sea cow in a lonely corner of the North Pacific in the 1760s was precisely the event that provoked discussions of extinction beginning in the 1780s, at a time when the dodo was still commonly thought to be either imaginary or still extant..('Empire of Extinction' Ryan Tucker Jones)
This is NOT a replica skeleton.
"Anomalocaris ("abnormal shrimp") is an extinct genus of anomalocaridid, a family of animals thought to be closely related to ancestral arthropods.
For the time in which it lived, Anomalocaris was gigantic, up to 1 metre (3.3 feet) long. It propelled itself through the water by undulating the flexible lobes on the sides of its body. Each lobe sloped below the one more posterior to it, and this overlapping allowed the lobes on each side of the body to act as a single "fin", maximizing the swimming efficiency. The construction of a remote-controlled model showed this mode of swimming to be intrinsically stable, implying that Anomalocaris would not have needed a complex brain to manage balance while swimming. The body was widest between the third and fifth lobe and narrowed towards the tail; it had at least 11 lobes in total. It is difficult to distinguish lobes near the tail, making an accurate count difficult.
Anomalocaris had an unusual disk-like mouth. The mouth was composed of 32 overlapping plates, four large and 28 small, resembling a pineapple ring with the center replaced by a series of serrated prongs. The mouth could constrict to crush prey, but never completely close, and the tooth-like prongs continued down the walls of the gullet. Two large 'arms' (up to 18 centimetres (7.1 inches) in length when extended) with barb-like spikes were in front of the mouth. The tail was large and fan-shaped, and along with undulations of the lobes, was probably used to propel the creature through Cambrian waters. Stacked lamella of what were probably gills attached to the top of each lobe.
The eyes were 30 times as powerful as those of trilobites, long thought to have had the most advanced eyes of any contemporary species. With 16,000 lenses, the resolution of the 3-centimetre-wide (1.2 in) eyes would have been rivalled only by that of the modern dragonfly, which has 28,000 lenses in each eye."
I first encountered this creature while I was visiting Osaka's aquarium last week. They had drawings and replica of it. And they had this replica made from paper so I told myself that if they could do it in paper I could probably do it in Lego. So here I am.
"Shon Papri" is what it is called locally. When we were kids, we would see such local vendors walking on the streets and sell such items but they have almost become extinct these days.
The only decent Shon Papri you get is from the indian sweet giant "Haldirams".
Stranded Pakistan Camp, Chittagong.
The Diamond Head is an extinct volcanic crater located in Honolulu, Hawaii on the island of Oahu. There is a wonderful hiking trail that leads up providing a spectacular 360-degree views of the island.
It was a little bit windy at the top but the view was amazing. This little lighthouse on the side of the extinct volcano caught my eye right away. It was built in 1899 and spreads light 18 miles out into the Pacific Ocean.
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Class120 C508 is heading for Weston according to the blind. I can't find my notes for this so have no date or location. I have no recollection of this and don't seem to have any other pictures here. Suspect South Wales. Certainly had a few visits to the Swansea to Cardiff line in the 1980's.
Running as 50723, 59278 & 50674 in 1979 and still based at Cardiff in 1982. No further history available.
Thanks to Railcar.co.uk for the above.
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Scientists who study the extinct creatures that once roamed the Earth are called paleontologists. If you were to watch a paleontologist at work, you would probably see him on his hands and knees, methodically and painstakingly examining the surface of the ground. This is because he is looking for fossils, or else he has lost a contact lens.
Extract from the book "Science Made Stupid" by Tom Weller
2015 04 08 074002 Cyprus The Sanctuary of Apollo Hylates