Starship Asterisk*

• I remember him as if it were yesterday, as he came plodding to the
  inn door, his sea-chest following behind him in a hand-barrow--a
  tall, strong, heavy, nut-brown man, his tarry pigtail falling over the
  shoulder of his soiled blue coat, his hands ragged and scarred, with
  black, broken nails, and the sabre cut across one cheek, a dirty, livid
  white. I remember him looking round the cover and whistling to himself
  as he did so, and then breaking out in that old sea-song that he sang so
  often afterwards:
  
  "Fifteen men on the dead man's chest--
  Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!"
  
  in the high, old tottering voice that seemed to have been tuned and
  broken at the capstan bars. Then he rapped on the door with a bit of
  stick like a handspike that he carried, and when my father appeared,
  called roughly for a glass of rum. This, when it was brought to him,
  he drank slowly, like a connoisseur, lingering on the taste and still
  looking about him at the cliffs and up at our signboard.

geckzilla wrote:Yeah

makc wrote:How about we have a section (or thread) for member photos?

geckzilla wrote:
You guys keep tricking me into thinking you are younger than you are. I might just be the youngest person here.

http://www.ibtimes.com/23-million-year-old-lizard-found-mexico-new-species-discovered-trapped-amber-1336605 wrote:

[size=150][list]The Winter's Tale Act 1, Scene 2[/list] LEONTES: [b][i][color=#80BF00]Looking on the lines [list] Of my boy's face, methoughts I did recoil Twenty-three years, and saw myself unbreech'd, In my green velvet coat, my dagger muzzled, Lest it should bite its master, As ornaments oft do, too dangerous:[/list][/color][/i][/b][/size]

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23-Million-Year-Old Lizard Found In Mexico,
New Species Discovered Trapped In Amber
By Zoe Mintz, International Business Times, July 08 2013

<<A 23 million-year-old lizard belonging to a new species has been found in Chiapas, Mexico. Trapped in a fossilized amber deposit, the soft tissue of the vertebrae has remained entombed in the small piece of resin since prehistoric times.

The specimen was "a complete and articulated animal that also preserves remains of soft tissue and skin," Francisco Riquelme, of the National Autonomous University of Mexico's Physics Institute, told Efe, adding it measured about 1.8 inches and is on display at the Amber Museum in San Cristobal de las Casas.

Preliminary results found the lizard belonged to a new species of the genus Anolis, which has nearly 400 species, according to Science World Report. Known for their adaptive techniques, some species of the Anolis can change their color depending on their surroundings. With hundreds of recognized species, the genus lends itself to exploration of “evolutionary diversification,” which led scientists to choose the genus as the first reptile species to be sequenced, according to the Encyclopedia of Life.

Scientists used the date of the amber deposit to find the approximate age of the ancient lizard. Gerardo Carbot, director of Chiapas' Paleontology Museum, says the age of the amber where the specimen was found dates back to at least 23 million years ago. Amber, which by definition is a translucent fossilized resin that comes from trees, can be found with remnants of plants and animals, but it is rare to find complete vertebrates like the lizard. The oldest animals found in amber were 230 million-year-old mites discovered in northeastern Italy. Scientists analyzed 70,000 amber deposits until they found the one that contained mite fossils, Science News reports. “Dinosaurs have come and gone, but mites have hardly changed,” David Grimaldi, of the American Museum of Natural History, in New York City, said. “Their body form is quite similar to what we see in gall mites today.”>>

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makc wrote:
^ found this image while searching for random stuff on his site.