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lymeregisfossils Thursday lunchtime on the Jurassic 🦕Coast🌊 ! The “ammonite graveyard” -a limestone bed literally packed full of 190 million year old fossil ammonites!

Though less common than dogs and monkeys, parrots and other birds can be trained as service animals to do many everyday tasks for people of limited mobility. Service birds are able to do tasks other animals can’t such as banking

Researchers design a functioning artificial womb

Researchers have designed an artificial womb-like device that could drastically change the way we care for extremely premature babies. The device, which has been used successfully with lambs, mimics the environment of a real womb. It’s designed to allow critically preterm infants to continue developing as they normally would.

Via ResearchGate

Image credit: Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

More in Nature: An extra-uterine system to physiologically support the extreme premature lamb

These are just amazing!

Moth is not a four-letter word for this UK knitter! | KnitHacker

Max Alexander‘s knitted moths are incredible – I am simply blown away. LOVE! I also like the irony of using wool to knit moths – normally that combination strikes fear into the heart of every knitter/crocheter I know!

African Cherry Spot Moth 

Knitted Merveille du Jour Moth 

Tatargina Picta Moth 

Peach Blossom Moth

Pokemon Spectrum | by gogoatt

Ammonites on Matrix (Quenstedtoceras sp., Jurassic) - Volga River, Ulyanovsk, Russia

This extremely artistic assemblage of large and small ammonites from Russia demonstrate an intense iridescence and highlights due to the presence of metallic Pyrite. The cluster has been positioned on a new matrix, as the grainy rock in which these Quenstedtoceras cephalopods were collected is not hard nor stable enough to display them permanently. The added component is an attractive piece of what is known as septarian, a mud-like material that grows in nodules. In this instance, yellowish Calcite crystals and gray sediment have formed the rock on which these colorful ammonites reside. The cluster is quite representative of the Volga River material, and that combination results in a dramatic display specimen.

Overall Measurements: 6.30 x 5.51 x 5.71 inches (16.00 x 14.00 x 14.50 cm)

Horseshoe Bend, AZ. Watched the sunset and it was everything I could have hoped for on a roadtrip. [6000x4000][OC] https://ift.tt/2Ppvm1A

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Leap Day…Why Does It Exist?

Once every four years, an extra calendar day is added: a leap day. But why?

The reason for adding leap days to the calendar is to align the calendar year with the actual year – which is defined by the time it takes Earth to circle the sun. It is equal to 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes and 46 seconds, or 365.24219 days.

If all calendar years contained exactly 365 days, they would drift from the actual year by about 1 day every 4 years. Eventually, July would occur during the northern hemisphere winter! Wouldn’t that be weird?

To correct (approximately), we add 1 day every 4 years…resulting in a leap year.

By making most years 365 days but every fourth year 366 days, the calendar year and the actual year remain more nearly in step.

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