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 Two Farmers Found the Largest Dinosaur Ever Unearthed in Australia The long-necked herbivore’s length measured the span of a basketball court, stood at two stories, and weighed an estimated 70 tons It took over a decade to identify the dinosaur bones because of the remote location of the bones, the fragile state they were in, and their massive size and weight that at times require a forklift to move. ( Rochelle Lawrence ) By Elizabeth Gamillo smithsonianmag.com June 9, 2021 ...

From Smithsonian online: Dinosaurs Evolved Flight at Least Three Times A new study finds that many feathered dinosaurs were more aerodynamic than previously thought A Microraptor , a small four-winged dinosaur that could fly, eats a fish. (Emily Willoughby / Stocktrek Images via Getty Images) By Riley Black smithsonianmag.com June 7, 2021 Flight is a relatively rare ability. Many animals crawl, slither, burrow, walk and swim, but comparatively few have the ab...

  Park Ranger Stumbles Upon Treasure Trove of Several-Million-Year-Old Fossils in Northern California Paleontologists found hundreds of Miocene fossils, including an 8-million-year-old mastodon, at an undisclosed location in the Sierra Nevada foothills The treasure trove discovery began when park ranger and naturalist Greg Francek from the East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD) first stumbled upon a petrified forest while on patrol in the Mokelumne River Watershed, located in the Sierra Nevada. ( Jason Halley, California State University, Chico ) By Elizabeth Gamillo smithsonianmag.com ...

An Evolutionary Timeline of Homo Sapiens Scientists share the findings that helped them pinpoint key moments in the rise of our species By Brian Handwerk SMITHSONIANMAG.COM | Feb. 2, 2021, 8 a.m. The long evolutionary journey that created modern humans began with a single step—or more accurately—with the ability to walk on two legs. One of our earliest-known ancestors, Sahelanthropus , began the slow transition from ape-like movement some six million years ago, but Homo sapiens wouldn’t show up for more than five million years. During that long interim, a menagerie of different human species lived, evolved a...

Hi Mary!   These are some of the things we’ve grown in our vegetable garden planted in raised beds in front of our house.  As you know, I love taking photos & thought it would be fun to share these with you & the DRT group considering this week’s “Learning Together” explores Edible Plants.  It has always impressed me how beautiful so many of the things we eat actually are!  Winter vegetables are especially interesting to photograph after the rain when they are freshly washed  & still have “pearls” of water on them.   Enjoy!   Stay well,    Elsa