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I Believe I Can Fly (Flight of the Frenchies)
From their Vimeo:
I have been filming the Skyliners on an incredible exploration into the world of free flight.
Tancrède, Julien, Seb and Antoine are pioneers in ‘highlining’ - a vertiginous combination of climbing, slackline and tightrope walking.We travelled from our home in Chamonix to our training ground in the Verdon gorge, testing the limits for our ultimate goal…
We rigged highlines on the skyscrapers of Paris, and finally came to the spectacular cliffs and fjords of Norway.Months of training led the Skyliners team to attempt their dream of complete freedom… the freedom of flight!
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Dinosaur Gas May Have Warmed the Earth
by Sid Perkins
Excuse you. Researchers have found that immense herbivorous dinosaurs may have produced enough methane gas—essentially burps and flatulence—to substantially boost global temperatures. The group of dinosaurs known as sauropods—plant eaters famed for their long necks and gargantuan size, such as those shown in an artist’s reconstruction above—were common members of many ancient ecosystems.
Previous research hints that each square kilometer of well-vegetated area may have supported between 11 and 15 sauropods, which together could have weighed about 200 metric tons.Using methane-production data for modern gut bacteria, researchers estimate that over the course of a year, sauropods worldwide would have produced about 520 million metric tons of the greenhouse gas. That’s roughly the amount of methane entering the atmosphere each year from all of today’s sources combined—including agriculture, beef and dairy production, wetlands, and forest fires—and about three times the amount of annual preindustrial emissions, the team estimates in the 8 May issue of Current Biology.
Because methane has about 25 times the planet-warming power of carbon dioxide, the gas generated by sauropods alone could have warmed the planet almost as effectively as all of the carbon dioxide in today’s atmosphere, data from other studies suggest.
(via: Science NOW) (image: Dorling Kindersley/Thinkstock)
Close up of an American Basketflower (Centaurea americana) at Sims Bayou Urban Nature Center, Houston, TX, USA. Like other members of the family Asteraceae (including sunflowers, daisies, and dandilions), the basketflower is not a single flower, but an inflorescence (many small flowers together in one structure).
(via: Houston Audubon)
Land animal - koalas
Aside from the adorable factor, and I mean…come on
Their evolution is amazing. It’s one of those species that truly filled a niche that nothing else occupied (eucalyptus eater). Also, fun fact, they have two, fully functional versions of their…
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