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bloodisthenewblack: 60% Off! Need I say anything else?

Mon, 21 May 2012 15:03:25 -0700

60% Off! Need I say anything else?

oldowan: Three-toed horses reveal the secret of the Tibetan...

Mon, 14 May 2012 12:48:42 -0700

Three-toed horses reveal the secret of the Tibetan Plateau uplift

The Tibetan Plateau is the youngest and highest plateau on Earth, and its elevation reaches one-third of the height of the troposphere, with profound dynamic and thermal effects on atmospheric circulation and climate. The uplift of the Tibetan Plateau was an important factor of global climate change during the late Cenozoic and strongly influenced the development of the Asian monsoon system. However, there have been heated debates about the history and process of Tibetan Plateau uplift, especially elevations in different geological ages.

In PNAS Early Edition online April 23, 2012, Dr. Tao Deng from Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and his team report a well-preserved skeleton of a 4.6 million-year-old three-toed horse (Hipparion zandaense) from the Zanda Basin, southwestern Tibet. Morphological features indicate that the Zanda horse was a cursorial horse that lived in alpine steppe habitats. Because this open landscape would be situated above the timberline on the steep southern margin of the Tibetan Plateau, the elevation of the Zanda Basin 4.6 Ma ago was estimated to be ~4,000 m above sea level using an adjustment to the temperature in the middle Pliocene as well as comparison with modern vegetation vertical zones. Thus, Deng and his team conclude that the southwestern Tibet achieved the present-day elevation in the mid-Pliocene.

Fossils of the three-toed horse genus Hipparion that have been found on the Tibetan Plateau have provided concrete evidence for studying the uplift of the plateau, including a skull with associated mandible of Hipparion zandaense from Zanda. In August 2009 a three-toed horse skeleton was excavated from the Zanda Basin, and its dental morphology confirmed the assignment to H. zandaense.

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Thu, 10 May 2012 17:02:09 -0700

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Thu, 10 May 2012 16:47:39 -0700

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Wed, 09 May 2012 14:36:57 -0700

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linniface: Another picture from my walk in the forest today.

Wed, 09 May 2012 14:26:02 -0700

linniface:

Another picture from my walk in the forest today.

Oh Wild, Wondrous Light! NEW STUFF IN THE STORE! and more on...

Wed, 02 May 2012 17:01:19 -0700

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paranormalnight: Baphomet is an imagined pagan deity (i.e., a...

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 18:06:09 -0700

paranormalnight:

Baphomet is an imagined pagan deity (i.e., a product of Christian folklore concerning pagans), revived in the 19th century as a figure of occultism and Satanism. Often mistaken for Satan, it represents the duality of male and female, as well as Heaven and Hell or night and day signified by the raising of one arm and the downward gesture of the other. It can be taken in fact, to represent any of the major harmonious dichotomies of the cosmos. It first appeared in 11th and 12th century Latin and Provençal as a corruption of “Mahomet”, the Latinisation of “Muhammad” but later it appeared as a term for a pagan idol in trial transcripts of the Inquisition of the Knights Templar in the early 14th century. The name first came into popular English-speaking consciousness in the 19th century, with debate and speculation on the reasons for the suppression of the Templars. Since 1855, the name Baphomet has been associated with a “Sabbatic Goat” image drawn by Eliphas Lévi.

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Sun, 29 Apr 2012 18:04:09 -0700

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I took these photographs! underthecoversongs: March’s Under...

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 15:52:46 -0700

I took these photographs!

underthecoversongs:

March’s Under The Covers session with 28 North

Click through for the full photoset by Genie Sanchez

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Fri, 16 Mar 2012 11:57:06 -0700

for the strength of the pack is the wolf, and the strength of...

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:00:05 -0700

for the strength of the pack is the wolf, and the strength of the wolf is the pack.

-kipling

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Sat, 10 Mar 2012 12:00:06 -0800

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