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Insel Verlag Picture Books, Moth
Insel Verlag Picture Books, Moth
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The space shuttle Discovery is shown attached to a modified NASA 747 aircraft at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida April 16, 2012. Discovery is expected to be flown to its final home at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia on April 17. [REUTERS/Joe Skipper]
This must have taken a million bungee cords/twine to secure.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2kt8lxez41qmaoalo1_1280.jpg)
The space shuttle Discovery is shown attached to a modified NASA 747 aircraft at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida April 16, 2012. Discovery is expected to be flown to its final home at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia on April 17. [REUTERS/Joe Skipper]
This must have taken a million bungee cords/twine to secure.
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Yes.
Weapon of Mass Instruction
Built from a welded frame atop a 1979 Ford Falcon, Raul Lemesoff drives around the streets of Buenos Aires distributing free books to anybody who wants to be assaulted with some serious learnin’.
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SURVEY: 68% of Puppies Are Bored at Work
A new survey out from the Department of Labor suggests that a little more than two-thirds of puppies are bored to tears at their jobs.
“Most of the puppies surveyed felt they were underemployed or mis-employed,” says Ronald Wills, a DoL spokesperson. “Puppies are just better at guarding things or digging. They’re not going to be that excited about spreadsheets.”
Haus von Meltrick, submitted by Ada Ospina.
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i LOVE prehistoric creatures, especially those that remind me of LOTR.
Arsinoitherium
Mounted specimen on display at the British Natural History Museum, London.
When: Late Eocene - Early Oligocene (36-30 million years ago)
Where: Northern Africa
What: Arsinoitherium is the animal with the largest known horns relative to body size. These gigantic horns were composed entirely of greatly expanded nasal bones. It also had a pair of smaller horns behind these enormous protuberances. This stocky beast was about 6 feet (2 meters) tall at the shoulder, and 10 feet (3 meters) long. It lived in Northern Africa, when this region was covered with tropical rainforests and mangrove swamps, eating most manners of vegetation with its large crushing molars. Arsinoitherium was fairly unspecialized in general, with the exception of its gigantic horns - the function of which is not well understood.
Though Arsinoitheriumsuperficially resembles rhinos, it is not closely related to them at all (and its large horns have a bone core, unlike the horn of the rhino which has no bony component). It is a member of the extinct order Embrithopoda, which is in turn within the Paenungulata (almost ungulates). Living paenugulates are elephants, manatees, and hyraxes. It is not well known how Arsinoitheriumfits into this group, as there is extremely little fossil record of basal embrithopods. Arsinoitherium was named based on the site of the discovery of the first fossils: they were near the palace of Arsinoë, a Ptolemaic Egyptian queen.
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