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Post by Infinity Blade on Apr 19, 2020 18:29:30 GMT 5
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Post by all on Jun 7, 2020 18:45:20 GMT 5
Zalinski dynamite gun was a gun developed in late nineteen century bu Edmund Zalinski Polish born soldier. His weapon used steam to fire dynamite before stable high power plastic explosives were invented. It was invented to destroy iron vessels which could not be destroyed by cannon balls used at the time.
Zalinski gun was effective against iron-clad ships and cheap to make but it existed for very short time.
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Post by Infinity Blade on Jun 30, 2020 3:16:11 GMT 5
A Spanish flag flown on a Spanish ship during the Battle of Trafalgar (1805). Look at how big it is.  Image source-> |
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Post by Infinity Blade on Jul 22, 2020 9:05:09 GMT 5
A Victorian taxidermied walrus. It probably came from the Hudson Bay area of eastern Canada and was first exhibited in London in 1886.  Needless to say it's a pretty bad taxidermy job. But that's probably why it's still one of the most popular exhibits in the museum today. Probably a lot of Victorians back then would have gone home thinking this was what a walrus actually looked like. Image and info source-> |
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Post by Infinity Blade on Jul 25, 2020 23:13:00 GMT 5
More bad taxidermy. This is a taxidermied lion from Gripsholm Castle, in Sweden. In 1731, this lion (while it was alive) was gifted to King Frederick I of Sweden, who kept it in a cage. When it died, a taxidermist was hired to stuff and mount the lion. The problem was that this taxidermist had never seen a living lion before, and only had its bones and skin to work with. As a result, the lion is horrendously inaccurate.  Image source->These are two stuffed ocelots displayed in the Museum of Natural History, in Berlin. The one on the left was stuffed in 1818 by a taxidermist who had never seen a living ocelot, only had the skin and a few sketches to work with, and had no basic anatomical knowledge. The one on the left was stuffed over a century later (in 1934) by Gerhard Schröder. He studied live animals, and had the whole dead animal (with muscles and skin) to work with.  Image source-> |
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Post by Infinity Blade on Jul 26, 2020 3:37:24 GMT 5
I'm wondering: should I delete dinosauria101's matchup/animal size-laden posts in this thread? They're not in the spirit of this thread, and I doubt he'll really need anything he's said or posted here in the future (he doesn't even frequently log in anymore). His other posts here without such connotations can stay. creature386 |
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Post by creature386 on Jul 26, 2020 13:07:05 GMT 5
He wanted to have his posts deleted anyway. Most of the time, it would be a bad idea due to all the ghost replies, but in this case, it is a good idea.
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Post by Infinity Blade on Jul 26, 2020 17:53:03 GMT 5
Done. All such posts (and the few ghost replies) have been deleted or edited.
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Post by sam1 on Jul 30, 2020 2:45:53 GMT 5
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Post by creature386 on Aug 16, 2020 22:30:12 GMT 5
I'm pretty sure some of you have already seen the Jellyfish Sprite, but that doesn't change how AMAZING it is:  (Yes, that's lightning) |
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Post by Infinity Blade on Oct 23, 2020 18:17:12 GMT 5
Pleistocene vulture preserved as a space in a pyroclastic deposit.
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Post by Supercommunist on Oct 27, 2020 23:23:34 GMT 5
Just noticed this post so late response but:
Maybe animal experts understimate the resilisence of animal's and I wonder if this means multi ton animals like dinosaurs were much better at resisting falls than we think.
Speaking of impressive animal tackles: here is a vid of a bison sending another bison flying:
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Post by Infinity Blade on Dec 7, 2020 7:59:34 GMT 5
Pouakai/hokioi (likely Haast's eagle) cave painting.  Also, according to Maori oral tradition, the eagle had "black feathers tinged with yellow or green" and "a bunch of red feathers on its head" ( link->). Of course, oral tradition isn't always accurate, but an interesting thought nevertheless (mummified Haast's eagle with feathers pls). In Maori legend, it was also rivals with the hawk ( link->). |
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Post by Infinity Blade on Dec 24, 2020 6:13:21 GMT 5
This was a Christmas card sent in 1880 to the curator of the Manchester Museum at the time (he was, in fact, the first curator of the museum ever).  There are more, it turns out.   Merry Christmas everyone. I assume most of us here celebrate Christmas. If not, happy holidays. |
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Post by creature386 on Dec 24, 2020 17:34:25 GMT 5
Reminds me how we don't have a Christmas thread for 2020 yet. Well, there's threads we can re-use at least.
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