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I was studying in my room, turned around to grab something and saw this.

So, basically, this is not my cat.

But she’s all like chillin’ in my bed like she pays rent or smth.

How the fuck did she even got into the freaking house.

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ITALY’S JE NE SAIS QUOI

“The moment we walked into the hotel, we were warmly greeted by the staff with a “Bonsoir”, which I expected because of Sofitel’s French heritage.”

Andy Torres of Style Scrapbook shares her perfectly French moments while staying at Sofitel Rome Villa Borghese. Plan your next adventure in Italy with that perfect je ne sais quoi.

Book your own French inspired stay at sofitel.com

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Jackpot of fossilized pterosaur eggs unearthed in China

Hundreds of eggs belonging to a species of flying reptile that lived alongside dinosaurs are giving scientists a peek into the earliest development of the animals.

The find includes at least 16 partial embryos, several still preserved in 3-D. Those embryos suggest that the animals were able to walk, but not fly, soon after hatching, researchers report in the Dec. 1 Science.

Led by vertebrate paleontologist Xiaolin Wang of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, the scientists uncovered at least 215 eggs in a block of sandstone about 3 meters square. All of the eggs belonged to one species of pterosaur, Hamipterus tianshanensis, which lived in the early Cretaceous Period about 120 million years ago in what is now northwestern China.

Previously, researchers have found only a handful of eggs belonging to the winged reptiles, including five eggs from the same site in China (SN: 7/12/14, p. 20) and two more found in Argentina. One of the Argentinian eggs also contained a flattened but well-preserved embryo.

One reason for the dearth of fossils may be that the eggs were rather soft with a thin outer shell, unlike the hard casings of eggs belonging to dinosaurs, birds and crocodiles but similar to those of modern-day lizards. Due to that soft shape, pterosaur eggs also tend to flatten during preservation. Finding fossilized eggs containing 3-D embryos opens a new window into pterosaur development, says coauthor Alexander Kellner, a vertebrate paleontologist at Museu Nacional/Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.

The eggs weren’t found at an original nesting site but had been jumbled and deformed, probably transported by a flood during an intense storm, Kellner says. Sand and other sediments carried by the water would then have rapidly buried the soft eggs, which was necessary to preserve them, Kellner says. “Otherwise, they would have decomposed.”

Read more via Science News

Photo Credit 1: Chuang Zhao

Photo Credit 2: X. Wang et al./Science 2017