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Hi guys!
I’m not dead, I’m just very busy. Woo~! Three labs~! I’m going to die this semester~!
My friends, it would be wonderful of you to follow this individual. He has a pretty cool web comic. I think it’s a web comic, anyway. That’s what I’m calling it.
![Marella splendens
Marella splendens was an arthropod that occupied the Mid-Cambrian and is found in the Burgess Shale formation, and is the most common animal found in said formation. It was once thought to be a trilobite of sorts, but this has since been corrected. It has, since being described as a trilobite, been found to be another type of arthropod all together, and has gained it’s own distinction among them.
M. splendens grew to about two centimeters, had 24 to 26 segments, each with a pair of branched legs; the branches being gills located on the upper portion of each leg, with the lower portion being used for walking. It had two pairs of antennae, one pair being long and sweeping and the other pair being short and stout. It’s head also had two pairs of rearward facing, for lack of a better term, spikes. It had too few segments per leg to be a trilobite, not to mention too many antennae. It also couldn’t be a crustacean as it lacked the three pairs of legs located behind the mouth. Studies show that it had an iridescent sheen and would have appeared colorful.
Fossil:
By Wilson44691 (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8lxd0dQD61qhp1q0o1_500.jpg)
Marella splendens
Marella splendens was an arthropod that occupied the Mid-Cambrian and is found in the Burgess Shale formation, and is the most common animal found in said formation. It was once thought to be a trilobite of sorts, but this has since been corrected. It has, since being described as a trilobite, been found to be another type of arthropod all together, and has gained it’s own distinction among them.
M. splendens grew to about two centimeters, had 24 to 26 segments, each with a pair of branched legs; the branches being gills located on the upper portion of each leg, with the lower portion being used for walking. It had two pairs of antennae, one pair being long and sweeping and the other pair being short and stout. It’s head also had two pairs of rearward facing, for lack of a better term, spikes. It had too few segments per leg to be a trilobite, not to mention too many antennae. It also couldn’t be a crustacean as it lacked the three pairs of legs located behind the mouth. Studies show that it had an iridescent sheen and would have appeared colorful.
Fossil:
By Wilson44691 (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
Hi
I was either in poor humor as of late, or I turned into an isopod. I can’t quite remember which, but it was probably the former. I’ll be back soon enough. Tomorrow, I think.
oh so just because Curiosity lands on Mars we’re going to forgive him for killing all those cats?
Satisfaction brought all those cats back, though! No harm, no foul, right guys?
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NASA - Curiosity Rover Lands on Mars
Latest Mission updates and real time footage
Its approximately 352 million mile (567 million kilometer), 36-week journey from Earth nearly complete, NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft and its Curiosity rover are “all systems go” for touchdown in Mars’…
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reuters: First Image From Mars Rover
In this image from NASA TV, shot off a video screen, one of the first images from the Curiosity rover is pictured of its wheel after it successfully landed on Mars.
The video screen was inside the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) team inside the Spaceflight Operations Facility for NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California August 5, 2012. The Curiosity rover landed successfully landed on the surface of Mars.
[REUTERS/Courtesy NASA TV/Handout]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8bkjlc2Fl1qmaoalo1_500.jpg)
reuters: First Image From Mars Rover
In this image from NASA TV, shot off a video screen, one of the first images from the Curiosity rover is pictured of its wheel after it successfully landed on Mars.
The video screen was inside the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) team inside the Spaceflight Operations Facility for NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California August 5, 2012. The Curiosity rover landed successfully landed on the surface of Mars.
[REUTERS/Courtesy NASA TV/Handout]
Oh, hey, I’ve been meaning to ask…
Is anyone else having problems with their messaging on here? I can receive and send asks, but I can’t answer them (not that I’ve gotten any for some time, it’s just been broken for some time.) Fan mail works though. Do you think it’s my browser (I use chrome)? Oh, I’ve also been having problems observing tags, you know, sliding them to read them all.
Tarbosaurus bataar
Tarbosaurus (Alarming Lizard) was a large tyrannosaurid theropod, and has been in the news lately because of an auction in New York this past May, most sources calling it Tyrannosaurus bataar, because the media isn’t too bright. It was seized by the feds. There have been a number of species named, but the only species currently recognized is T. bataar.
Tarbosaurus roamed Asia in the late Cretaceous. It has been found mostly in Mongolia, with some remains recovered in China. Like most Tyrannosaurids, T. bataar was a large bipedal carnivore, however, it had a unique locking mechanism in its lower jaw, and the smallest forelimbs to body size of all Tyrannosaurids. It was the apex predator of its environment, which was humid floodplains, crossed with rivers. It is a prevalent creature in the fossil record, and, as such, has been well studied. It grew from ~10-~12 meters long, weighed about 6 tonnes, and about 3 meters tall (I think, I could use some verification.)
Photo:
By Armel (Dinosaure Uploaded by FunkMonk) [CC-BY-SA-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
Drawing:
DiBgd at the English language Wikipedia [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)], via Wikimedia Commons
Back to your regularly irregular posts tomorrow.
Sorry I’ve been reading the Discworld series. I got up through “Sourcery,” I love this series. Also, I did end up watching my aunts dog. This concludes the reasons why I have been absent.
