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Tuesday, 17 February 2026

Before the Dinosaurs

Before the Dinosaurs were around on Earth, the dominant group of Animals that roamed the earth were the Permian Synapsids. They were bizarre looking mamal like reptiles. Some of them had spines on their back.

If you saw a Permian Synapsid, you would see a creature that looks both like reptile and a mamal at the same time.

It is thought they went extinct because of frivalous volcanism, or several super volcanoes erupting in tandem. The food chain was wipe out by acid rain and cold weather because of dust from the volcanoes.

Tuesday, 10 February 2026

Giant Sloth

The closest being we have to king king Kong is the Megatherium, the giant sloth. It was a type of sloth that was able to grow 6 meters tall and weighed about 4 tones. It spent most of its life walking on all 4 limbs but was able to stand up on two legs to reach higher parts of the tree to eat, or to intimate predictors or other sloths.

It was native to south America and went extinct about 10,000 years ago.

Sunday, 8 February 2026

Largest Lizard

The largest species of lizard to ever exist as far as we know is the Magalania, it was native to Australia, and went extinct 40,000 years ago, about the same time humans settled there.

It grew to about 7 meters long and weighed roughly 500 kg. There is no evidence that it ate people but many experts think it likely did eat people . There is also evidence that people are the reason it went extinct.

It belonged to the same family as the Komodo Dragon and looked a lot like a monitor lizard only much bigger.

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Saturday, 7 February 2026

Largest Flying bird

The largest flying bird to ever exist as far as we know is the Argentavis magnificens, they were loosely related to Eagles but belonged to their own group. They were known to stand as tall as an adult human and have a wingspan of 8 meters.

They were a predator and probably hunted other birds and mammals. If you saw one flying today, it would look like a paraglider or a small airplane. The family group they were a part of is Teratornithidae, they were a group of large eagle like birds that lived in south America.

Thursday, 5 February 2026

The Sandy Drowning Theory

There is a well known fan theory associated with the musical movie titled 'Greace'. They think the whole movie is an hallucination of Sandies brain caused by her drowning.

In the theory, Dan doesn't save her from drowning in the beginning of the movie, that was an hallucination along with all the other scenes in the movie up to the point when they're in a car and it starts to fly to heaven.

The flying car scene in the theory would be when her oxygen starved brain finally shuts down. It is quite a grim concept and it makes the whole movie hard to view a second time. It adds a grim lens to an otherwise upbeat movie.

Wednesday, 4 February 2026

Largest Ever Flying Animal

The Largest flying animal to ever exist as far as we know is the Quetzalcoatlus northropi, it was a type of pterosaur. It went extinct at end of the late Cretaceous period, the end of the dinosaur era. It was huge, the creature is thought to weigh about 250 kg and stood about 5 or 6 meters tall when not flying; as tall as a giraffe.

It not fully understood how they were able to fly but it is thought they would use a spring like muscle contraction to launch itself into the air. The 10 to 11 meter long wingspan would have helped it to stay airborne.

If it existed today, it would likely be mistaken for a small airplane because of its size.

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Tuesday, 3 February 2026

One Cell Multi Cell

If you ever wondered if there is a life form that lives as a single cell but also can be a multi cell organism, there is one, it's called Dictyostelium discoideum.

It is an amoeba (ameba) that lives as a single celled being that consumes bacteria but when there isn't much to eat, individual cells will join together to form a multicellular being (a bit like power rangers when all their robot parts join together). When they are all joined together they can combine their movement to crawl large distances compared to their size. They behave more like a worm or slug than a cellular life form when they are one.