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In the night from September 6 to 7, 1936, the last known #thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) died in captivity at Hobart Zoo (Tasmania)
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September 6, 1802, birthday of French naturalist Alicide d'Orbigny, pioneer of the study of microfossils 🦠🔬
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"Tsunami following the eruption of Krakatoa on 27 August 1883." Original artwork by Severino Baraldi for World of Knowledge annual, 1981. A coral boulder of estimated 600 tons was transported 100 meters inland by the up to 40 meter high waves
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August 27, 1883, in the early morning hours #Krakatoa explodes & collapses, causing a tsunami wave 40 meter high in the Sunda Strait, killing 30.000 people. The explosion boom is heard in Australia
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August 25, 2000, died #OTD, American artist & cartoonist Carl Barks. He created many beloved #Disney antihero characters like the Beagle Boys, John D. Rockerduck & also former Klondike prospector Scrooge Mc Duck
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August 16, 1869, birthday of American #geologist Mignon Talbot, the first #woman to find and describe a #dinosaur - Podokesaurus holyokensis 🦖
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August 14, 1856, died #OTD Victorian theologian & geologist William Buckland. He described the 1st #dinosaur as Megalosaurus in 1824 based on a fragmentary preserved jaw 🦖
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August 12, 1857, Victorian palaeontologists William Daniel Conybeare died #OTD. He made important contributions on the anatomy of the Ichthyosauri and worked on the geology of the British Islands ⚒️ In 1821, he described the marine reptile Plesiosaurus 🐉
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July 18, 1950, died #OTD American geologist Mignon Talbot, the first woman to find and describe a dinosaur - Podokesaurus holyokensis - now the official State #Dinosaur of Massachusetts 🦖🇺🇸
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July 7, 1947, a reporter spreads the #news of an alleged #UFO-crash near #Roswell, New Mexico 🛸
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