Is it just me that thinks there must be something wrong with either Australia or the US in that 'We Dare' is given a PG rating in Australia, but effectivly banned/prohibited in the US for being too raunchy.

The Amphibians and the Reptiles
Finally the last entry on these plushies from Japan (until updates from new stock and me noticing then getting enthused enough to translate) and yay for grabbing test from Wikipedia. Love Journey has also some dinosaurs now as well.

Tiktaalik roseae - an Upper Devonian 'fishapod' from 375 million years ago. It is a ( Read more... )

I was going to add the plush fossil amphibians and reptiles, but a new lot came in to those Japanese shops, including more amphibians and reptiles, but more invertebrates, so I am adding in the new invertebrates first.

Grypania spiralis - a eukaryotic alga from 2.1 billion years ago. It is by far the oldest known multicellular organism.
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Australia Night
Well todays new fact is that when the first settlers landed in Australia, after the men built the camp, the women disembarked and a huge 3 day orgy ensured ( Read more... )

And now for the fish (and yay for wikipedia for the comments I add to each creature), I was going to do the amphibians and reptiles as well, but time is running away. I haven't bought as many of these guys as I have of the invertebrates as the invertebrates was what I was specialising at uni (ok, technically it was more general Palaeonotology & ( Read more... )

During my travels last year in Tokyo, I found some lovely Palaeozoic Fossil Plushies in the National Museum Of Nature and Science at Ueno.
Outside the MuseumSo I had to buy some for my son, an Anomalocaris from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale, and a Bothriolepis, a Devonian freshwater placoderm ( Read more... )

well its been a long time, too long ( Read more... )

Ive been off LJ for a while due to work (isn't that often the way), but I had to share this. Starting up my car on Friday morning, there was a loud bang from near the house, and then smoke coming up from infront of the house. Now it was raining (first time in a looong time with this drought we're having) and suddenly smoke was rising from the ( Read more... )

Well I finally got around to putting all the photos from the trip to Germany up on the web, In three groupings (which relate to the three stages of the travels)

Out West
MoselleA beautiful wine valley region. Lots of tourists in the peak season which had just finished before we got there, although the weather was still hot for the start of the ( Read more... )

Received a phone call from my mother last night telling me how spectacular the comet was. So I drove down the hill a bit to a lookout that faced SW at about 9.30 (I get a good view of southern stars, but too many trees to see to the south-west) and looked. Best comet I can recall seeing.

From the Age

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