And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
As a young boy, decades ago, I heard tell rumors of polar ice caps melting and polar bears drowning; well, there are far more polar bears now than 60 years ago. I had asked a presenter from the university about the reptile in the aquarium at the back of our class and pointed out its heat lamp; my question was along the lines of how much hotter must it be for the iguanas and lizards to grow into giant dinosaurs as they were before? Here's to hoping it gets warmer and wetter to encourage such giants...or not.
Pretty green basilisk. We have brown basilisks in south Florida now. They are interesting little lizards. I had two that would visit with me. A male that stayed with me while I did yard work and a female that would stay in a bush right outside my computer room window. I would put worms out for her and she would hop down and eat them while I sat there. Inquisitive little critters.
"The fossil record shows that birds are feathered dinosaurs, having evolved from earlier theropods during the Late Jurassic epoch, and are the only dinosaur lineage known to have survived the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event approximately 66 mya. Dinosaurs can therefore be divided into avian dinosaurs—birds—and the extinct non-avian dinosaurs, which are all dinosaurs other than birds." wikipedia
Just really, really small.
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My hens are like velociraptors when a lizard or mouse gets in the run. Total evisceration.
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ReplyDeleteAs a young boy, decades ago, I heard tell rumors of polar ice caps melting and polar bears drowning; well, there are far more polar bears now than 60 years ago. I had asked a presenter from the university about the reptile in the aquarium at the back of our class and pointed out its heat lamp; my question was along the lines of how much hotter must it be for the iguanas and lizards to grow into giant dinosaurs as they were before?
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Pretty green basilisk. We have brown basilisks in south Florida now. They are interesting little lizards. I had two that would visit with me. A male that stayed with me while I did yard work and a female that would stay in a bush right outside my computer room window. I would put worms out for her and she would hop down and eat them while I sat there. Inquisitive little critters.
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