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La mancanza totale di etica e di rispetto degli ideali da parte dei politici italiani trova una ulteriore conferma ogni giorno:

Marco Rizzo e Gianni Alemanno uniti a sostegno di Daniele Giovanardi per la corsa a sindaco a Modena.

Uno stalinista e un fascista a braccetto per il fratello no-vax di uno dei peggiori esempi di Berlusconismo

Persone che associo alla parabola Berlusconiana:

Renzi - Jovanotti - Travaglio - Santoro - Andrea Pezzi - Salvini - Bossi - Meloni - Fabio Volo - Daria Bignardi - Minzolini - Mimun - Previti - Morgan - Sgarbi - Larussa - Grillo - Conte - Dibattista - Dimaio - Gasparri - Fini - - Polverini - Vannacci - Pecoraro Scanio - Demagistris - Ingroia - Vendola - Emiliano - Guzzanti padre - Facchinetti di Eataly - Verdini - Maroni - Feltri - Belpietro - Santanche - Innocenzi - Cruciani/Parenzo - Beatrice Borromeo - Razzi - Scilipoti - Fascina - Carfagna - Veltroni - Rutelli - Samori - Minetti - Bertinotti - Mastella - Dipietro - Capezzone - Brambilla - Moratti - Don verze - Sallusti - Buttiglione - Dalema - Deldebbio - Parodi - Letta padre e figlio - Gori - Lucarelli - Scanzi - Serracchiani - Formigoni - Gramellini - Palombelli - Rita Dallachiesa - Sofri padre è figlio - Senaldi - Marcegaglia - Tremonti - Montezemolo - Lunardi - Scajola - Toffanin - Giorgino - Gelmini - Socci - Fazio - Giovanardi - Casaleggio - Vanzina - Moccia - Tarantini - Cuffaro - Solinas

Quando dicevamo che il berlusconismo non sarebbe finito con Silvio.

Relatively brief post because I imagine people won't care much about this one (nor is there that much to talk about). But newly described from the Pliocene of New Zealand we have Macronectes tinae, which we might as well call Tina's Giant Petrel. Known from a really well preserved skull and a partial humerus, Tina's Giant Petrel is a species of giant petrel, but notably smaller and less robust than the modern species, like these ones.

There might be two reasons why its smaller. One is simple really. Giant petrels stand out amongst their relatives for being ridiculously big, while all their closest kin are pretty small. So logically, an older, more basal giant petrel is expected to be smaller. The authors also speculate that living in warmer waters is another factor, but modern petrel ranges are huge so that hypothesis is less solid.

Even if it was smaller, Tina's Giant Petrel still lived a life that was likely similar to its modern relatives. Meaning it was an absolute beast of a bird. Modern petrels are well known to scavenge near seal colonies and penguing colonies, mob other birds, steal and eat the chicks of other sea birds and also hunt for fish, squid and crustaceans. Google "giant petrel" and expect to be greeted by birds either absolutely tearing apart carcasses or being covered in blood. Petrels look pretty metal. As it so happens, Tina's Giant Petrel was found in a formation that is in no short supply of potential prey. Eomonachus, a monk seal (illustrated by seal king Jaime Bran), Eudyptes atatu, a penguin (illustrated by  Simone Giovanardi), Aldiomedes angustirostris, an albatross, various petrels and an undescribed species of pseudo-tooth bird (skull illustration by Jaime Headden) all would have given the extinct petrel a lot of options.

The paper also provides an illustration of the bird itself. Notably the artist, Simone Giovanardi who previously illustrated the penguins up above, decided to give this species darker plumage, reasoning that petrels in warmer waters tend to be darker than their relatives in the colder waters further south. The illustration shows it feeding on the carcass of a seal, probably the local Eomonachus.

Link to the paper: Taxonomy | Free Full-Text | A New Giant Petrel (Macronectes, Aves: Procellariidae) from the Pliocene of Taranaki, New Zealand (mdpi.com) And obligatory link to Wikipedia: Macronectes tinae - Wikipedia

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Petradyptes stonehousei Ksepka et al., 2023 (new genus and species)

(Type specimen of Petradyptes stonehousei [scale bar = 10 mm], from Ksepka et al., 2023)

Meaning of name: Petradyptes = rock diver [in Greek, referring to the fact that its fossils were found after they had eroded out of rocky cliffs]; stonehousei = for Bernard Stonehouse [British biologist]

Age: Paleocene (Thanetian)

Where found: Moeraki Formation, Otago, New Zealand

How much is known: Five partial skeletons, together representing parts of the limbs and several vertebrae. An isolated tibiotarsus (fused shin and ankle bones) might also belong to this species.

Notes: Petradyptes was a close relative of modern penguins. Although not as big as Kumimanu, another early member of the penguin lineage known from the Moeraki Formation, Petradyptes was slightly larger than the largest extant penguin, the emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri). Like modern penguins, Petradyptes was a flightless wing-propelled diving bird, but it still retained some similarities to flying birds in its wing skeleton, which may suggest that it was less specialized for diving than penguins are today.

Reference: Ksepka, D.T., D.J. Field, T.A. Heath, W. Pett, D.B. Thomas, S. Giovanardi, and A.J.D. Tennyson. 2023. Largest-known fossil penguin provides insight into the early evolution of sphenisciform body size and flipper anatomy. Journal of Paleontology advance online publication. doi: 10.1017/jpa.2022.88

The Mega-Penguin That Stood Tall on Prodigious Limbs

Did you know it’s Penguin Awareness day? Please be aware of the following penguin: 

In 2006, schoolkids in New Zealand discovered the fossilized remains of a penguin the size of a 10-year-old child. The giant bird turns out to be a new species of penguin that, thanks to its long legs, was taller than any of its modern relatives.

Simone Giovanardi at Massey University in Auckland, New Zealand, and his colleagues compared the fossil with digital versions of bones of dozens of types of penguin. The analysis revealed that the remains belong to a new species that was similar in appearance to giant prehistoric penguins in the genus Kairuku, but had much longer legs. The researchers named the species Kairuku waewaeroa (artist’s impression pictured); the second part of the name is Māori for long legs.

Standing about 1.38 metres tall, the leggy bird was taller than other ancient giant penguins, as well as the tallest modern penguin, the 1.2-metre tall emperor (Aptenodytes forsteri). It lived some 30 million years ago, when much of New Zealand’s upper North Island, where the fossil was found, was under water.

The findings could help researchers to understand the evolution of penguins, the authors say. 

[Anonymous.  Nature; London Vol. 597, Iss. 7878 - link]

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