The La Quinta Formation is one of South America's only windows into the early like Tachiraptor and Laquintasaurus (illustrated below by Maurílio Oliveira) roamed this volcanic coastal floodplain in what is now & ~200 million years ago.

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Reconnecting headwater streams to floodplains enhanced watershed denitrification rates by 50% in a recent study. Less excess in our waterways = healthier ecosystems.
https://t.co/rIcC2RlWkr

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Our new paper is now published on !
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From habitat to genes. Understand how habitat affinity shapes genetic divergence in Amazonian floodplain bird populations during periods of intense historical environmental change.

https://t.co/wW7TeLoRIM

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The 2020 Long Preston Bird report is now available to download free from the Long Preston Floodplain Project website https://t.co/2V31lqWR6k

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I'll cheer the river as she breaks these banks and makes floodplains of us both.

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those who frequent the floodplain at night may have spotted a legion of black-clad knights, marching tirelessly through the river as if it were naught but thick fog

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Mermaids, who live in the deep waters of the ancient Dnipro river, like to swim to the Kherson floodplains in summer. They bask in shallow water and taste sweet watermelons, which they exchange for carps and pikes.

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an afternoon of wandering the floodplains

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Also: This is the coat of arms of "Ottrau" (probably means "Otter Floodplain") in the state of Hessia! This looks even more otterly. 😄

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In the monograph, it was stated that the bulk of Q. lawsoni were found in a single site- an abandoned channel lake, a body of water cut off from the rest of the floodplain. Because the absence of aquatic vertebrates but abundance of invertebrates, it was posited that...

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My entry for the A sunny morning on the floodplains of late Oligocene Nebraska.

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Sobek, the Egyptian crocodilian god of the Nile, was a protective and solar deity, warding off evil and protecting the innocent. In the New Kingdom period, he was fused with the Sun god to form Sobek-Ra, symbolizing the power of the Pharaohs and fertility of the Nile floodplains.

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Some of the submissions on the Draft Cork City Development Plan in relation to rezoning are interesting. Landscape preservation zones are of particular interest, especially those located on floodplains/marshland. Watching intently...#cork

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Way too often I feel like we look only the dispositional environment of a fossil (mostly floodplains, rivers, lagoons etc.) without asking ourselves what fantastic backdrops these animals could have inhabited besides where they were found.

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I don’t think I’ve ever shared this on Twitter before. This is my first digital painting I ever did of herrerasaurus I called “moonlit floodplain”

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