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A Short History of Boots in the Vietnam War
Introduction An infantryman is only as good as his rifle and his feet, and nowhere was this truer than in the jungles and rice paddies of Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. While much has been written about American firepower… Read More ›
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Announcement: New Sundance Formation merch on Redbubble!
Hello all. I recently uploaded a new design onto my art page on Redbubble featuring the Sundance Formation. This is a geologic formation found in the center of North America which spans the middle and late Jurassic Period 170-157 million… Read More ›
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Rhamphorhynchus
Rhamphorhynchus, meaning “prow beak”, is one of those iconic creatures which appears in practically every children’s book about prehistoric life. It was a pterosaur with a 6 foot wingspan which lived in Europe during the late Jurassic Period 150-145 million… Read More ›
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Tropeognathus
Tropeognathus, meaning “keel jaw”, was a large pterosaur which lived in Brazil during the middle of the Cretaceous Period 112 million years ago. Tropeognathus was a member of a group of pterosaurs called the anhanguerids, named after the genus Anhanguera…. Read More ›
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Uktenadactylus
Uktenadactylus was a genus of pterosaur with a possible 25-30 foot wingspan which lived in North America and Europe during the early and middle Cretaceous Period 125-100 million years ago. In 1992, a man named Chris Wadleigh found the front… Read More ›
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Wellnhopterus
Wellnhopterus was a pterosaur which lived in Texas during the late Cretaceous Period 70-69 million years ago. On March 22-29, 1986, a paleontological excavation led by Dr. Wann Langston Jr. was underway at a place called Pterodactyl Ridge within the… Read More ›
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Aetodactylus
Aetodactylus, meaning “eagle finger”, was a pterosaur which lived in Texas during the middle Cretaceous Period 96 million years ago. In 2006, workers at a construction site at Joe Pool Lake in Mansfield, Texas found a fossilized lower jaw from… Read More ›
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James Yates: New York’s 18th Century Serial Killer
“Foggy Winter Cabin”. Free-to-use AI-generated image, fromhttps://stockcake.com/i/foggy-winter-cabin_1338115_976017. December 1781. The rural village of Tomhannock, Rensselaer County, New York… In the middle of the night, there came a tremendous pounding on the door of the Yates house. When the aged couple… Read More ›
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Alamodactylus
Alamodactylus was a pterosaur which lived in Texas during the late Cretaceous Period 90 million years ago. A handful of fossils of this animal were found within the Atco Formation, which contains rocks dating to the Coniacian and Santonian Stages… Read More ›
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Pteranodon
Pteranodon, whose name means “winged and toothless”, was a pterosaur which inhabited the center of North America during the late Cretaceous Period 86-79 million years ago. Fossils of this iconic prehistoric flying reptile have been found in South Dakota, Kansas,… Read More ›
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