Month: September 2021

  ​https://www.facebook.com/groups/1456655311080224/permalink/4515981261814265/ A parent Devincenzia (a huge Phorusrhacid)has brought prey (Cardiotherium) to its chicks. A mangrove forest in Miocene South America. by Gabriel Ugueto I love these guys. T Rex 2.0. Steve and I read a novel I found about them. It sucked. Neither of us could finish it.

  ​https://www.facebook.com/groups/1456655311080224/permalink/4510726782339713/ “The gigantic skull of the Hyena relative Dinocrocuta and one of the largest land based mammalian carnivores that has ever lived with a shoulder height of 1.9 metres and 300 kg in weight.” That beastie would do justice to Tolkien’s wargs.

​https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=5158114987548472&id=100000500665737&sfnsn=mo Arkansas Shit happens but this is in a new league.    

 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/530186287033641/permalink/4462922057093358 A few piper pix from Facebook down in Cape Breton over post Hurricane Larry surf too good to not post. Right click and open in new tab to see full image.  

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/10/prehistoric-america-atlantis/619819/ A rather poetic summary of the peopling of the Americas. https://phys.org/news/2021-09-meat-heavy-diets-restricted-hunter-gatherer-population.html Not a surprise but good to know.

Sent by Kirk Hogan, surely a liberal if the word means anything. Surely this is a joke or an Onion parody. It seems that a large racist rock has been identified, “cancelled” and destroyed at the request of students at the University of Wisconsin. The poor “glacial erratic” had done nothing but it was condemned …

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I did not know  Eldridge  Hardie well but for years he did superb illustrations of traditional field sports,like bird hunting and fly fishing for many of my friends. I particularly envied the late  Datus Proper, a man who died casting flies into Hyalite Creek, and who had a portrait of his beautiful little dark pointer …

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