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Top Comments: Holes in Dinosaur Fossils Provide Details of Late Cretaceous Environment
9+ hour, 30+ min ago (426+ words) Here at Top Comments we strive to nourish community by'rounding up some of the site's best, funniest, most mojo'd & most informative commentary, and we depend on your help! ! Here's the new & improved DK6 version of how to submit nominations: If you…...
Top Comments: How Did Birds Survive the Meteor Collision that Killed the Dinosaurs?
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (208+ words) Here at Top Comments we strive to nourish community by rounding up some of the site's best, funniest, most mojo'd & most informative commentary, and we depend on your help! ! Here's the new & improved DK6 version of how to submit nominations: If…...
White to move and mate in two #813 - The Gilded Dinosaur
2+ mon, 3+ day ago (126+ words) This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication. The Fossil War Between E. D. Cope and O. C. Marsh and the Rise of American Science "Mark Jaffe, The Gilded Dinosaur Solution (spoiler) instructions: In the link above, slide…...
ESSAY II " The Population Blender: Climate, Contact, and Why Homo sapiens Scaled
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (1107+ words) When we imagine prehistoric humans, we almost always imagine them incorrectly. The usual picture is familiar: small, evenly scattered bands drifting slowly across vast, mostly empty landscapes, rarely encountering one another. Given the population numbers involved'perhaps only tens of thousands…...