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WAYNE BARLOW Just to round things out, I saved Wayne Barlow for last because he also creates interesting paintings that speculate about life on alien planets.he's also done film designs for harry Potter, hellboy and many other movies. His color palette reminds me of later Creepy and Eerie covers. First, some of his dinosaurs. This could be alien life but is actually Velociraptor.

Looks under graded to me. Here's mine by comparison. Yours has way better pages as well. I agree. Must be something we can't see in the inside or perhaps on the back cover. Judged purely by the front cover I think Kelholts looks slightly better. There's a bindery chip at the top of the back cover URC which likely caps the grade at 8.0. As I told Kelly, this book has one of the nicest spines I've ever seen on an early GA book. There's barely even a single tiny fleck of color missing at the staple areas... it appears unread, or very very close to it. I'll miss it, but I'm pleased it found a good home. Here is the back Yes it must be due to the bindery tear. Curious though, isn't that a production defect? Sure is a nice copy, thanks for sharing! I think it is a production defect and does completely influence the grade for cgc but not for me. I once owned a Planet 29 CGC 9.2 with a similar bindery chip on the front, but it was half the size. That time CGC did not account for the production flaw. I think if the size of the defect was half the size, this book would be a CGC 9.2 as well. My My experience bears this out as well. Look carefully and you'll see a tiny bindery chip at the top of the spine of this Fight #41. No way it would garner a NM grade if the chip were anything other. But I don't think CGC is consistent about this very common FH defect. Sometimes they disregard, sometimes not - and it doesn't seem to be a matter of size alone.

Looks under graded to me. Here's mine by comparison. Yours has way better pages as well.

Thanks - I have just been reading about the competing theories. Fascinating stuff!

And then, on December 23, 1938, the first living specimen was found off the east coast of South Africa. Museum curator Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer discovered the fish among the catch of a local angler. A Rhodes University ichthyologist, J.L.B. Smith, confirmed the fish's importance with a famous cable: "MOST IMPORTANT PRESERVE SKELETON AND GILLS = FISH DESCRIBED" I remember reading about this in childhood, in the same kind of natural history book that Richard (Yellow Kid) mentioned earlier. Like him, I read those books until they fell apart. There is a fascinating recent documentary about the discovery. The fish rotted before Smith could properly examine it. Smith was to certain it would prove the theory that the fish walked on its fins on the ocean bottom. Unfortunately for Smith, when live specimens were later observed in the wild, this was shown not to be the case.

Only known from fossils., it was believed to have been extinct since the end of the Cretaceous period. Paleontologists had a special interest in it because it was identified as an ancestor of the tetrapods. If so, it could have been the long sought missing link between fish and amphibians.

Yet amazingly nature has a way of re-evolving (so-to-speak). For example, after the Permian extinction (250 million years ago), certain species of snails completely disappeared from the fossil record, only to reappear millions of years later. Fascinating stuff! I had not heard of this. I wonder why they disappeared and reappeared? Were there any theories? Did the snail provide clues to environmental changes previously unguessed? In general terms, it seems that snails tended to survive extinctions because of their habitat, protected by water and sediment. (I was curious enough to look that up.)Do you have a link, Steve? By what you say, the snail in question would be considered a Lazarus taxon, an evolutionary line that seems to have disappeared from the fossil record only to reappear much later. Perhaps the most celebrated example of a Lazarus taxon - or 'living fossil', is the Coelacanth.

Of course, according to Hollywood, dinosaurs never died. Our fascination with them abides.

From what I remember, the landscape would have looked surprisingly familiar to us. Maple, magnolia, oak, and beech all appeared around this time. (Conifers and ferns had been around a lot longer.) Bees evolved around the same time, and in spreading pollen were largely responsible for the evolution of flowering plants, which includes the grasses, which surprisingly had not previously existed. In fact grass evolved just prior to the extinction of the dinosaurs. But for T. Rex it was much like a walk in the park.

Unfortunately we have just passed the Thanksgiving/Christmas feast season and the great Gator methane release is eminent. less than a month away you can experience it first hand Darn, and only a single ocean in between - but at least it's there.

Unfortunately we have just passed the Thanksgiving/Christmas feast season and the great Gator methane release is eminent. Sounds like a mass extinction event to me! he used to have 11 kids. Sounds like a load of old coprolite.

DINOTOPIA by JAMES GURNEY