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Marine mammal paleontologist, artist, snorkeler, beachcomber, tidepool enthusiast. Chief paleontologist for Charleston Center for Paleontology.
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The sperm whale is right up there next to Cuvier 😉
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I neglected to say that the whales are also on top, which is where they belong 😎
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And critically they've put the important ones like sea lions up in the front row =]
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The suit includes the legal definition of Shrek
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back in boy scouts I knew a guy who lost his totin' chip like three separate times (that's a minimum of 12 observed violations). I don't know how he survived scouts with any of his fingers intact. Hope your kid's OK!
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absolutely ludicrous.
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the mainstream media has been steadily buying into the idea that science and academia are somehow "captured" by left and liberal ideologues, rather than the more obvious explanation that measured analysis leads people away from reactionary thought
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This is hardly unique to whaleontology, as dino folks familiar with the case of Troodon formosus are painfully aware. My Master's adviser Dave Varricchio recently published a paper outlining the reasoning behind maintaining use of Troodon: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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This hasn't always been my opinion - but my late Ph.D. adviser Ewan Fordyce made a pretty compelling case to let sleeping dogs lie during my doctoral program down under. Holotype specimens - the specimens which species are founded upon - should probably be informative, after all.
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Please add your comment here. We can oppose this.
www.inaturalist.org/blog/113184
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I only visited Fry's once or twice, last in 2013, the one in the wild west themed one in Palo Alto
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"not to scale" lmao you got me real excited there for a moment
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I've been to that locality before! Just once though. As far as I'm aware that whale ("wally") is an adult
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Gang this isn't the 1700s, guard members aren't going to go out pillaging, they're going to pull their phones out and get Lyft to take them home
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You and I have some very different paleontological hopes