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Nacido en Bournemouth (Dorset) –a 89 kilómetros de los acantilados de Lyme Regis donde Mary Anning nos descubrió el océano mesozoico- en 1928, Ronald George Smith iba para ingeniero, pero la Segunda Guerra Mundial truncó sus planes y acabó [...]
Our new ELI today: 'Demonstrate the apparent rotation of the sky with an astronomical umbrella; using a simple model to show the difference in the appearance of the night sky seen from Earth or from space'.The simulation of the Earth’s rotation [...]
Si estás dentro del mundillo de los dinosaurios y la cultura popular (por supuesto que lo estás, ¿por qué si no ibas a estar leyendo este blog?) seguro que ya has oído hablar de 'El valle de Concavenator'. No obstante, es nuestra obligación [...]
Stemec suntokum, Sooke FormationThe diving bird you see here is Stemec suntokum, a Fossil Plopterid from Sooke, British Columbia, Canada.We all dream of finding new species, and new fossil species in particular. This happens more than you think. As [...]
Francisco Riolobos (a.k.a. Franxurio) es un viejo conocido en Koprolitos. Ya vimos por aquí sus #Dinovember sin dinosaurios en 2015 y en 2016, su "paleopureza" o sus bichos pérmicos. Ahora encabeza un nuevo proyecto en forma de fanzine [...]
This specimen is somewhat unique in what is normally found, it contains very visible mesocorallites quadrilaterals. It is described as a new species in Erwin Stumm's Silurian and Devonian Corals of the Falls of the Ohio on page 79 as Halysites [...]
Editor’s Note: We are looking up as HMNS Astronomer James Wooten explains the sky happenings for the month of October, including the solar eclipse occurring on October 14. Saturn is now well placed for observing in early evening. Face southeast [...]
More and more papers emerge on the February, 2023 earthquakes in Turkey and the East Anatolian Fault System. Additionally, we have a database of paleoseismology studies in New Zealand (spoiler: it’s a lot!) and many more papers on paleoseismology [...]
The fifth international conference on regional climate (ICRC 2023), organised by World Climate Research Programme’s (WCRP) coordinated downscaling experiment (CORDEX), has just completed. It was a hybrid on-site/online conference with hubs in [...]
This month’s open thread on climate topics. Please try to stay on topic and refrain from posting tedious, oft-debunked nonsense. Look out for more reports of ridiculously high global temperatures and intense rainfall, and more confident [...]