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Panda’s
Now for some cute little animals. They are so cuddly.
One zoo in southwest China has its hands full with 16 baby pandas. The Sichuan Wolong Panda Protection and Breed Center is dealing with the results of a breeding boom where 16 pandas have been born. The brood includes five sets of twins. The cubs are weighed and measured every five days (see pics)
The heaviest tips the scale at just over 24 pounds, while the lightest weighs about 11 pounds. The pandas are due to stop suckling soon – just about the time they’ll start learning to walk. Once weaned , the panda cubs will attend panda kindergarten. In the meantime, more little ones are expected at the centre since 38 giant pandas were artificially impregnated.
SO CUTE!!!!!
Panda's
Now for some cute little animals. They are so cuddly.
One zoo in southwest China has its hands full with 16 baby pandas. The Sichuan Wolong Panda Protection and Breed Center is dealing with the results of a breeding boom where 16 pandas have been born. The brood includes five sets of twins. The cubs are weighed and measured every five days (see pics)
The heaviest tips the scale at just over 24 pounds, while the lightest weighs about 11 pounds. The pandas are due to stop suckling soon – just about the time they’ll start learning to walk. Once weaned , the panda cubs will attend panda kindergarten. In the meantime, more little ones are expected at the centre since 38 giant pandas were artificially impregnated.
SO CUTE!!!!!
New Element Discovered
Discovery-New Element
New Element Research has led to the discovery of the heaviest element
yet known to science. The new element, Governmentium (Gv),has one
neuron, 25 assistant neurons, 88 deputy neurons, and 198 assistant deputyneurons, giving it an atomic mass of 312.
These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons,which are
surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called peons. Since Governmentium has no electrons, it is inert; however, it can be detected, because it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact. A minute amount of Governmentium can cause a reaction that would normally take less than a second can take from four days to four years to complete.
Governmentium has a normal half-life of 2-6 years; it does not decay, but instead undergoes a reorganization in which a portion of the assistant neurons and deputy neurons exchange places. In fact, Governmentium’s mass will actually increase over time, since each reorganization will cause more morons to become neurons, forming isodopes.This characteristic of moron promotion leads some scientists to believe that Governmentium is formed whenever morons reach a critical concentration. This hypothetical quantity is referred to as critical morass.
When catalyzed with money, Governmentium becomes Administratium, an
element that radiates just as much energy as Governmentium since it has half as many peons but twice as many morons.
Julia h/t to cousin Mike in Seattle
Boomdeyada! I Love the Whole World
Earthquakes in China, volcanoes spouting in Chile and Italy, stock market queezy, elections looming. Enough bad news in the world. Let this make your day lovely for a change.
Hat tip to The Anchoress at http://theanchoressonline.com/
Julia
Midwest Floods
This pretty much happens every year,but this year we had some torrential rains and we haven’t even gotten to the snow melt yet. It will be interesting if we will have another 500 year flood, because up north they hav had record amounts ofsnowfall.
Heavy Rains Cause Flooding Across Midwest
Jim Perotti, head of maintenance for Holiday Shores Lake, clings to a depth gauge after becoming trapped by the suction force of a drain in Illinois on March 19.
Perotti was stuck in the frigid water for more than an hour before he was rescued and airlifted to a hospital in serious condition.
The torrential downpours that battered the Midwest also took two lives in southern Illinois, when floodwaters swept a truck off a rural road, the Associated Press reported.
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Rebirth of the Eagle
A great powerpoint about the symbol of our country. The Bald Eagle.
Amur leopard
H/T to Barking Moonbat Early Warning System
A Amur leopard cub has hit the spotlight in England. The rare Amur leopard is foundmainlyin Russia now because of trophy hunters and fur traders. These are magnificentcreatures and why anyone wouldwantto harm these animals is beyondme. they are beautiful and shouldbe protected from the idiots pocahers and trophy hunters.
Amur leopard cub goes outside for first time
A rare Amur leopard cub has finally ventured out into the world at a British zoo today.
Born in captivity, the female cub is part of a
breeding programme aimed at conserving the species whose numbers are
thought to be fewer than 35 in the wild.–The Telegraph
Pretty Bird
Scientist have found the fossils of the smallest pterosaurs found yet. It was the size of a swallow.
February 11, 2008—An illustration shows a newfound "mini pterodactyl," which lived in the canopies of ancient gingko forests in what is now China about 120 million years ago.
The sparrow-size Nemicolopterus crypticus, whose discovery was announced this week by Chinese and Brazilian scientists, is one of the smallest pterosaurs known.
Despite its small stature and 10-inch (25-centimeter) wingspan, the toothless reptile may be the ancestor of gigantic pterodactyls that stretched 20-feet (6-meters) from wing tip to wing tip.
This fossil “opens a new chapter on the evolutionary history of this group of [flying] reptiles,” said study lead author Alexander Kellner, of the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro in Brazil.
The study was published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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The Taming of the Giant Shrew
Wel it is not exactly huge, but it is the biggest Shrew species found to date. It is about %50 biggfer than the next biggest Shrew.
The newly discovered gray-faced sengi is the world’s largest known elephant shrew, scientists announced today.
The insect-eating mammal is up to 8.3 inches (21 centimeters) longer, counting the tail, and 25 to 50 percent heavier than any other elephant shrew species, researchers say.
Photograph courtesy California Academy of Sciences
You Dirty Rat
There was some pretty big rats a few thousand years ago.
January 16, 2008—An illustration (top) and sculpture flesh out the fossilized skull of the largest rodent ever found. (Read full story.)
The South American "rat" lived two to four million years ago and weighed about 2,200 pounds (1,000 kilograms), based on an analysis of its 21-inch-long (53-centimeter-long) skull, a new study says.
The rodent may have used its bulk and fearsome teeth to fend off attacks from saber-toothed cats and giant meat-eating birds, the researchers added.
—National Geographic
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