Undertoad • Feb 18, 2003 6:33 pm
From the selection of stuff that I didn't think was good enough for the regular IotD ---
In Brazil they found a new version of pterosaur which lived 100 million years ago. It would eat by skimming the water, as shown. Interesting, but just not interesting enough, I thought. Ananova story
This is a water vole. Its numbers are declining rapidly in Britain because people confuse it for a rat.
Last year we had the Turner Prize winning entry which was an empty gallery space where the lights would go on and off. I didn't see if there was a winner this year, but this was one of the entries: "The Thinker", by Keith Tyson. It apparently contains a computer. I thought this would be interesting and saved the image, but there wasn't enough information in the caption to explain the entry any further, and I never learned anything more about it.
This is a squirrel monkey and its baby. Very cute.
Apparently they had a lot of descriptions of Jane Austen but no portraits; she never sat for one. So a forensic police artist painted one up from all the available information. This is the author as she might have looked like in 1805 or so.
This was fully covered by other places. A bunch of skeletons found in China suggest new ideas about the evolution of flight. This is a conception of what the four-winged dino might have looked like. New Sci article
In Brazil they found a new version of pterosaur which lived 100 million years ago. It would eat by skimming the water, as shown. Interesting, but just not interesting enough, I thought. Ananova story
This is a water vole. Its numbers are declining rapidly in Britain because people confuse it for a rat.
Last year we had the Turner Prize winning entry which was an empty gallery space where the lights would go on and off. I didn't see if there was a winner this year, but this was one of the entries: "The Thinker", by Keith Tyson. It apparently contains a computer. I thought this would be interesting and saved the image, but there wasn't enough information in the caption to explain the entry any further, and I never learned anything more about it.
This is a squirrel monkey and its baby. Very cute.
Apparently they had a lot of descriptions of Jane Austen but no portraits; she never sat for one. So a forensic police artist painted one up from all the available information. This is the author as she might have looked like in 1805 or so.
This was fully covered by other places. A bunch of skeletons found in China suggest new ideas about the evolution of flight. This is a conception of what the four-winged dino might have looked like. New Sci article