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New #book 📚🦖 Darren Naish (September 2021): Dinopedia: A Brief Compendium of #Dinosaur Lore.
https://t.co/5Mk4ffVnKS
In March 1944, Mount Vesuvius experienced its last major eruption, just amongst the battle for Italy.
Artwork by Marl McCandlis, 1994
March 4, 1972, Pioneer 10, after exploring the gas planet Jupiter, becomes the first human-made object to be set on a path out of our solar system 🪐🛰️
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February 22, 1875, died #OTD, Charles Lyell, #lawyer & #geologist. Argued that the present can explain the past, revolutionizing #geology. He also popularized this young #science & influenced generations of geologists, like Darwin ⚒️👨⚖️
https://t.co/ayl0PXt1lB
New e-#book 📚 on the plants that survived the megafauna's demise (in Portuguese)
https://t.co/lstx10N2wz
February 13, 1766, birthday of Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus. His writings on #society and #economy influenced Charles #Darwin to include the struggle for limited resources in his evolutionary theory https://t.co/H6rPO2x3tb
According to a new tectonic plate motion model, in the next 200 million years, Eurasia and the Americas will collide to form a new supercontinent 💚
https://t.co/PKO12MRsH7
February 12, 1809, birthday of Victorian naturalist and 'rockhound' aboard the H.M.S. Beagle Charles R. #Darwin
🪨🔨 #DarwinDay #darwinday2021
https://t.co/a0HJLNh1di
February 11, 1905, birthday of Czech painter, book illustrator and palaeoartist Zdeněk Michael František Burian, whose work played a central role in the development of palaeontological reconstruction 🦖🎨
https://t.co/jmsytdkFy6