Doggies! From Portugal, Africa, Australia

The Art of Lili Chin

How to tell the time, using just your hands and the sun

The Missing Scarf

Venus Fly-Trap and Nepenthessss

Carnivorous Plants from Seth Boyden on Vimeo.

Almighty Feathers!

Let's all be friends with the frilled lizard, or the wonderful Liz Climo does it again :)

Irresistible

Ah, thesaurus!

Semear a Música / Planting Music

Encontrado na Cultura Inquieta

On Cloud Nine :)

Boab Trees - a postcard from Granny Kanguru

Venomous / Poisonous - there's a difference. Peçonhento / Venenoso - faz diferença :)

Puppy!

Bel été, disent-ils... :)

The Jurassic Coast in the UK (because of Mary Anning, obviously :)

Illustrated Books about Children in Malawi

Click to buy on Amazon UK

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind... in Malawi

WILLIAM AND THE WINDMILL (official trailer) from {group theory} on Vimeo.

Earth History in 24 Hours

Surfing in Australia :)

Dolphins Surfing from Jennene & Dave Riggs on Vimeo.

Migaloo

As nossas compras na Feira do Livro / What we bought at the Book Fair

Be-a-Ba: mapa-mundi com autocolantes, plesiossauro em puzzle 4D.
Booksmile: A Casa da Bicharada.
Edicare: Dinossauros, Atividades no País Imaginário, dois brinquedos científicos.
Kalandraka: Inventário das Árvores (e o melhor saquinho de toda a Feira :)
Pavilhão dos Pequenos Editores: My First Bedtime Stories.
Porto Editora: Livro de Atividades da Ovelha Choné, Cola e Descola com As Roupas, GRU - Meu Pai, o Supervilão.

Princess Non Sequitur :)

Save the Trees

Stone Girl, Bone Girl - the story of Mary Anning of Lyme Regis

Recommended by A Mighty Girl. Click to buy from Amazon UK

Mary Anning, born in England in 1799, made an astounding discovery at age 12 when she unearthed the first full skeleton of a giant ichthyosaur in the cliffs above her home in Lyme Regis. This incident -- in which she was helped by a little dog she rescued from a cemetery -- was the beginning of a long career that saw Mary become the world's best-known fossil hunter.
Best-selling author Laurence Anholt turns Mary's fascinating life into a perfect read-aloud, while Sheila Moxley's luscious pictures vividly evoke the coastal setting and dramas of Mary's exciting life.

That Spielberg fella... :)

Disgraceful photo of Spielberg happily posing next to a Triceratops he just killed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We need to name and shame these bigshot directors, thinking they can wantonly kill innocent dinosaurs.

found at imgur

Mary Anning - Happy 215th Birthday!

(and I am finally reading Remarkable Creatures, by Tracy Chevalier)

Dinossauros às Quintas (uma quinta cheia de dinossauros? Ai...)

blogue Lusodinos, evento no Facebook

Abracinho!

... and no other food, obvs :)

Hammer Head (tubarão martelo) - the wonder of Bird and Moon Comics

Multilingual

Para o Lucas

Pixar's Egg Hunt - Happy Easter :)

Rory and Dad soon to be in a book - great news! The Art of Liz Climo :)

Liz Climo on Tumblr

Kids Crying For The Funniest Reasons Ever - some of my favourites :)

Find more at 9Gag

A (very belated) postcard from Granny... Kangaroooooo

3 Three! 3

4ª Feira de Miniaturas e Casinhas de Bonecas

E a casinha que vai ser rifada, perdão, sorteada :)

How to Wrestle a Baby

The least majestic Whales, by Bird and Moon Comics

Dia Internacional do Livro Infantil / International Children's Book Day

A postcard from Granny Angela - the Red Back Spider - Oooh...

Beijiiiinho!

Now don't Chicken Out, meet Anzu wyliei, the largest oviraptosaurus :)

From io9:

Say hello to Anzu wyliei, a newly discovered Cretaceous era dinosaur that roamed the Dakotas 66 million years ago. Measuring nearly 12 feet long and weighing over 600 pounds, it's the largest oviraptorosaur ever discovered in North America.

"We jokingly call this thing the 'chicken from hell,' and I think that's pretty appropriate," noted paleontologist Matt Lamanna of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh in a statement. His team's analysis of three partial skeletons, which were uncovered from the uppermost level of the Hell Creek rock formation in North and South Dakota, now appears in PLoS One. 

More formally, the feathered dinosaur is named after Anzu, a bird-like demon from Mesopotamian mythology, and wyliei after a boy named Wylie, the dinosaur-loving grandson of a Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh trustee.

Between the three partial skeletons, the paleontologists were practically able to reconstruct the whole thing. Living amongst Tyrannosaurus rex and Triceratops, the newly discovered dinosaur measured 11.5 feet (3.5 meters) long and almost five feet (1.5 meters) tall at the hip. It weighed an estimated 440 to 660 pounds (200 to 300 kg). Living during the Late Cretaceous, it was wiped out by an asteroid (or some other mass-extinction-inducing event) 65 million years ago along with its contemporaries. 

As noted, it's the largest oviraptorosaur ever discovered in North America — a group of dinosaurs closely related to birds who often exhibited cassowary-like crests on their heads (a cassowary being a flightless bird found in New Guinea and Australia). They were probably omnivores, foraging on vegetation, small animals, and perhaps eggs while living on wet floodplains.

And if the fossilized remains are of any indication, these things got into their fair share of scraps and mishaps. One dinosaur had a broken and healed rib, while another showed signs trauma to a toe.

Pets over Princes :), or the Art of Wrong Hands

I am the Walrus, asleep on a Russian submarine :)

If you find a Baby Songbird out of the nest, or the Art of Bird and Moon Comics

T-Rex vs Megalodon - size comparison

The Nature Connection Pyramid