Objectivity fan Patricio helps us choose today’s topic by donning the White Gloves of Destiny and taking a random pick from the card catalogue..
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Knows his onions.
For those interested to know. ….
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meiolania
Meiolania ("small roamer") is an extinct genus of basal turtle[2][3] from the Oligocene to Holocene, with the last relict populations at New Caledonia which survived until 2,000 years ago.
Meiolania had an unusually shaped skull that sported many knob-like and horn-like protrusions. Two large horns faced sideways, giving the skull a total width of 60 centimetres (2.0 ft), and would have prevented the animal fully withdrawing its head into its shell. The tail was protected by armored 'rings', and sported thorn-like spikes at the end.[4] The body form of Meiolania may be viewed as having converged towards those of dinosaurian ankylosaurids and xenarthran glyptodonts.
The animal was rather large, measuring 2.5 metres (8.2 ft) in length, making it the second-largest known nonmarine turtle or tortoise, surpassed only by Megalochelys atlas from Asia, which lived in the Pleistocene. It lived in Australia, Lord Howe Island, New Caledonia and Vanuatu.
The Meiolania specimens once living on New Caledonia and Lord Howe Island were much smaller than their giant relatives from the Australian continent.
Sir Richard Owen: the original "I like turtles" dude.
Patricio's pick was indeed a great pick!
Amazing level of detail in those drawings.
I appreciate seeing your face more
You should use face masks.
Gracias Patricio.
Does the Royal Society have anything about or from the early peoples of the islands? I would mean prehistory or antiquity, not so much Angles, Saxons, Normans, but earlier. Might we see? -Your humble servant. =)
Imagine the skill of the engravers, converting a rough sketch into a photograph, as it were. Quite the most astonishing take-away for me, at least. Perhaps you might consider an episode concentrating on fine lithography? Art & Science in symbiosis!
I hope I'm able to visit there one day too :-)
definitely a success
I am pleased that my handwriting is even better.
The ad which preceded this video of the "big extinct turtle" was "Diane Black for Congress." Sometimes, YouTube gets it SOOOOOOOO RIGHT without even trying!
I like turtles!