It's Sunday, Breaking Borders, Jill Pole, and things that go boom

[rthstewart]

Thanks so very, very much to everyone who commented on the latest. I am so grateful and the reason I've not responded is that I've been trying to finish up the next chapter. It's not been a good week for writing, so I'll just keep pushing. It's a good thing I'm not doing NaNo, because I'd be so far behind it's ridiculous. So, let's talk about

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[adaese]

Not strictly relevant, just wanted to alert people to lions running loose on the moors: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-15614294

[rthstewart]

This is so awesome. There was also this yesterday, about fossil remains of a 50 or 60 foot "shield croc" skull found in Madagascar. A really annoying and incomplete link is here

And, oh my gosh, the article states:
Other specimens of species closely related to shieldcroc have been described, but not since the 1920s, Holliday said. And because those specimens were found by German archaeologists, they ended up getting blown up in the bombings of World War II.

I had completely forgotten about this. It was something I was going to include in AW!

[anastigmatfic]

That annoying and incomplete link led to this lovely gallery of croodilians, mostly alligators.

Eustace, put that tentpole down.

[rthstewart]

OMG LOVE the one with the gator eating the python. I know that there's this video of some Wisconsin tourists who witnessed one of those encounters in the Everglades a few years ago. My son and I went driving the Everglades highway at dusk a few years ago hoping to see one.

What I'm looking for and just remembered is that in 1938 the Germans mounted a brachiosaurus at the Humboldt Museum in Berlin and may be the largest dinosaur ever mounted. Not sure. But when they unveiled it, they covered the display with swastikas. I would really like a picture of that -- I think Mary has one pinned up in her ballroom/laboratory. She's never seen the skeleton and feels the loss keenly and the perversion of science it represents even more.

[anastigmatfic]

I want to see that, too!