Rhys Needham

Tiny possum and glider thought extinct for 6,000 years found in remote West Papua The discovery of two lost species is 'exceptional' and rare, scientists say

Back from the dead - a tiny possum with an extra-long finger on each hand and a ring-tailed glider with a tail that can grasp branches, have been found living in remote rainforests in West Papua after they were thought to have disappeared 6,000 years ago.

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A drone through the bathroom window will cool things down? 😁🤪

If/when another player's neck is snapped with that kind of play, the NRL shouldn't be allowed to wring their hands.

The Broncos were very much their own worst enemies tonight. Amateurish. However, I do wonder how many were from being squashed into the turf, Penrith routinely targetting the back of their necks, and dazing them into even more ineptitude.

Lord Nelson was 5ft 6in. His statue is 17ft 4in.
That’s Horatio of 3:1.

If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!

It'd probably be broadly the same in most countries outside the US - or parts of Eastern Europe. Much stronger again in most of Canada?

What few they have are some of the most unpleasant people you'll ever come across.

Gerard and Anne, too, likely. Republic supporters who did a fair bit for refugees back in the day.

A huge issue which nobody in UK politics is touching, because the minds of everyone involved been utterly warped by X (both Tory *and* Labour Right) is that about a third of 2024 Reform voters - and likely an even higher % of current Reform intended voters - think that Trump is a prick and hate him

The most seductive thing about a social media platform is its ability to create an immersive world that mimics but is different from the ‘actual’ world and in so doing teach its participants to act as if that created world is indeed the real world.

"Where's his red hat and beard? I thought he was meant to be jolly?!"

YouTube video by Alexandre Ribeiro Bee Gees - You Should Be Dancing

Counterpoint: youtu.be/_JoZS6LgqYI?....

You'd expect most warriors to best a chicken most days?

Stick them in their pyjamas and a nightcap and say they're Wee Willie Winkie?

Plenty of books where children wear casual clothes, too

Several last times.

I don't think American YouTubers would find him especially interesting, to put it mildly? Still prosecuting the Scullin and Lyons' governments responses to the Great Depression and which of 1932, 1974, or 1977 was the bigger landslide?

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This is like blatantly not real. It's an 11.7m wingspan aircraft, which would put the resolution well below 10cm

Tiny possum and glider thought extinct for 6,000 years found in remote West Papua The discovery of two lost species is 'exceptional' and rare, scientists say

Tiny possum and glider thought extinct for 6,000 years found in remote West Papua. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Still openly bitter he never got the ABC gig?

Or am I talking through my hat and/ or imagining things?

Actually, I should probably explain more. I wonder if there's some explanation for the state of politics with what might be considered a partial shift of a vulgarised moderate (?) liberal tendency to parts of the ALP and the Greens, via some of the odder parts of the Democrats?

That the likes of Peacock, Hewson, and Kennett were overtaken by someone as declasse, ordinary, and petty bourgeois as John Howard?

Plenty of local equivalents, too, seem to be what we might have got if Andrew Bolt had stayed in the ALP.

Impersonation?

Beats me how no one in Washington figured out that the logical move for anti-regime Iranians and dissident elements in the regime when faced with a military intervention led by a wildly unreliable US is to sit back and see what happens rather than go Leeroy Jenkins on day 1

Pygmy possum with long fingers rediscovered in remote rainforest A possum and a glider long thought extinct have been rediscovered in New Guinea by a group including Australian mammalogist Tim Flannery.

www.abc.net.au/news/science...

this post deserves to be presented to you by having an index card moved down word by word with photos taken of your face after every new reveal

Rob Schneider?

Partly, people up north are generally used to it. Partly, I think it partly it explains some of the weird politics.