Largest fossilized flower preserved in amber could be nearly 40 million years-old! - Study Finds

https://studyfinds.org/largest-fossilized-flower-in-amber/

A 7,000-Year-Old Indigenous Australian Myth May Recount A Real Event | IFLScience

https://www.iflscience.com/a-7-000-year-old-indigenous-australian-myth-may-recount-a-real-event-67035

Katie Porter Uses Whiteboard To Explain To Dianne Feinstein Why This Her Office Now

https://www.theonion.com/katie-porter-uses-whiteboard-to-explain-to-dianne-feins-1849975873

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Democrats Turned Michigan Into Woke Socialist Hellhole On First Day Of Legislature, It Was Awesome

https://www.wonkette.com/democrats-turned-michigan-into-woke-socialist-hellhole-on-first-day-of-legislature-it-was-awesome

A Kenyan woman's startup recycles plastic into bricks that are five times stronger than concrete

https://scoop.upworthy.com/a-kenyan-womans-startup-recycles-plastic-into-bricks-that-are-five-times-stronger-than-concrete-522133

@JLong I think it would have ended up more like this

@JLong If dinosaurs hadn't gone extinct, I'm not even sure mammals would have gained a foothold. My guess is that reptilians would have filled every available niche with some version of a not-mammal.

@JLong That's what I was thinking. Millions of years to develop brains. Makes you wonder what another 65 million years would have done for their development.

Phylogenetic bracketing suggests some dinosaurs' neuron density was equal to that of modern primates

https://phys.org/news/2023-01-phylogenetic-bracketing-dinosaurs-neuron-density.html

This Artist Shows What Long-Extinct Animals Might've Looked Like In His 21 Illustrations | Bored Panda

https://www.boredpanda.com/renders-of-prehistoric-animals-paleorex-part2/ via @boredpanda

@eliredman But I want to see what's in there.

Why Archeologists Are Too Scared To Open The Tomb Of China's First Emperor

https://www.iflscience.com/why-archeologists-are-too-scared-to-open-the-tomb-of-china-s-first-emperor-67019#.Y77hMFsLKrw.twitter

JWST IMAGES TURN UP GALAXY-SIZED SONIC BOOMS DISRUPTING GAS CLOUDS IN DISTANT CLUSTER

One of the James Webb Space Telescope’s first color image targets has a turbulent inner life.

https://www.inverse.com/science/stephans-quintet-shock-wave

Yardzen's rewilding project turns lawns into gorgeous spaces

https://www.thecooldown.com/green-home/yardzen-rewilding-project/

Newly-found chemicals in fossil plants reveal UV-B radiation caused Permian mass extinction

https://interestingengineering.com/science/chemicals-fossil-uv-radiation-mass-extinction

Brazilians Terrified That Riot Could Lead To Tedious Congressional Hearings

https://www.theonion.com/brazilians-terrified-that-riot-could-lead-to-tedious-co-1849966026

@DavidKMresists I did?

Q enthusiasts are gonna have a bad day.
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Supreme Court denies case seeking to remove Biden and reinstate Trump

https://www.rawstory.com/supreme-court-trump-2020/

Humans have an astonishing intellectual similarity with their 'heavy-browed cousins'

Neanderthal cave art shows they indulged in complex symbolic thought.

https://interestingengineering.com/science/humans-intellectual-similarity-neanderthal

Could washing our clothes with detergent become a thing of the past?

https://phys.org/news/2023-01-detergent.html