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Rhynchotus rufescens, R. maculicollis

Red-Winged Tinamou by Bruno Girin, CC BY-SA 2.0

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Name: Rhynchotus rufescens (Red-Winged Tinamou), R. maculicollis (Huayco TInamou

Status: Extant

First Described: 1825

Described By: Spix

Classification: Dinosauria, Theropoda, Neotheropoda, Averostra, Tetanurae, Orionides, Avetheropoda, Coelurosauria, Tyrannoraptora, Maniraptoriformes, Maniraptora, Pennaraptora, Paraves, Eumaniraptora, Averaptora, Avialae, Euavialae, Avebrevicauda, Pygostylia, Ornithothoraces, Euornithes, Ornithuromorpha, Ornithurae, Neornithes, Palaeognathae, Notopalaeognathae, Tinamiformes + Dinornithiformes Clade, Tinamiformes, Nothurinae

Rhynchotus is a genus of South American Tinamou, both of which are reddish in color. They also are not threatened with extinction. However, they differ extensively in ecological niche. The Red-Winged Tinamou, shown above, lives in Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay, in habitats such as marshy grasslands, forest edges, and shrubland, as well as dry savanna. It has beautiful red primaries that can be seen when it flies. It eats insects and small animals during the summer, and switches to plants such as fruits and tubers in the winter. The males, once again, raise the chicks, after a long courtship by the male towards the female. 

Huayco Tinamou by Joseph Smit, in the Public Domain

The Huayco Tinamou, on the other hand, lives entirely in the Andes mountains of Argentina and Bolivia, living mainly in semi-arid scrub fields. It has black and reddish-brown stripped feathers, and mainly eats fruit, invertebrates, and flower buds. The males will incubate the eggs of multiple females, nesting in dense brush and between roots. 

Sources: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhynchotus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-winged_tinamou 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huayco_tinamou

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Titanoceratops ouranos

By José Carlos Cortés on @ryuukibart

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Name: Titanoceratops ouranos

Name Meaning: Titanic Horn Face 

First Described: 2011

Described By: Longrich 

Classification: Dinosauria, Ornithischia, Genasauria, Neornithischia, Cerapoda, Marginocephalia, Ceratopsia, Neoceratopsia, Coronosauria, Ceratopsoidea, Ceratopsidae, Chasmosaurinae, Triceratopsini

Titanoceratops is a Triceratopsin which may have had the longest skull of any land vertebrate, at 2.65 meters long. It’s entire body was about 6.8 meters long, making it an extremely large Ceratopsian, similar to Triceratops and Torosaurus. It was also very closely related to both, and is known from a partial skeleton and mostly complete skull. It is known from either the Kirtland or Fruitland Formations, the exact formation being unknown due to the Quarry being lost. Either way, it lived about 74 to 73 million years ago, in the Campanian age of the Late Cretaceous. 

By Mariana Ruiz Villarreal, in the Public Domain

Titanoceratops was extremely similar to Eotriceratops and Ojoceratops, which lived at the same time; given the hypothesis that the short-frilled Triceratopsins were simply subadult forms of the longer-frilled forms like Titanoceratops, this seems fairly likely. More histological studies of the growth stages of Triceratopsins is necessary, of course, before this can be corroborated; I’ll be going over the “Toroceratops” controversy in the Torosaurus and Triceratops entries (though, just for the record: if Triceratops is a subadult form of Torosaurus, Triceratops was named first and would take priority. So Triceratops would stay, and Torosaurus would no longer be a valid name.) Still, Eotriceratops and Ojoceratops are both somewhat younger than Titanoceratops, so there is some doubt to the claim of their synonymy. 

By Jack Wood on @thewoodparable​

No matter which formation it lived in, Titanoceratops would have lived alongside a wide variety of dinosaurs such as Bistahieversor, which may have fed upon it; Saurornitholestes, Paronychodon, Anasazisaurus, Parasaurolophus, Stegoceras, Nodocephalosaurus, and Pentaceratops. It was originally thought to be a species of Pentaceratops before being separated out from it. Titanoceratops is also unique in its size by showing that large Ceratopsians were evolving earlier than the time of Triceratops and Torosaurus, and also does close at least a little of the gap between these forms in the evolutionary tree. 

Source:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanoceratops

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what are your thoughts on apis mellifera, also known as the common chicken

innit that the bumbledy bee

you can’t fool me 

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Aftur til fortíðar – S03E02

Aftur til fortíðar – S03E02

Í snjallsímahugleiðings dagsins skoðum við aðeins snilldartæki frá framleiðenda sem hét Palm. Þetta var fyrirtæki sem framleiddi og seldi nokkrar tegundur af skipuleggjurum og þaðan voru mín fyrstu kynni af snjallsíma.

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