<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=525380" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Great Beauty Past And Present</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Think of all the great beauty <br>still remaining in this world... <br>on land beaches rivers mountains </div><div style="margin:10px 0">at sea beneath the ocean waves<br>all the species of incredible fishes<br>uncounted diverse marine life</div><div style="margin:10px 0">in the air birds the fliers <br>insects in their myriads <br>bats gliders like squirrels</div><div style="margin:10px 0">once flying also were pterosaurs <br>155 million years of powered flight <br>found on every continent except </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Antarctica yet with over sixty genera <br>discovered and flight skills equal <br>or exceeding birds (pterosaurs' had </div><div style="margin:10px 0">massive flocculi, it occupied 7.5% <br>of total brain mass, far in excess of <br>all other vertebrate, birds flocculi 1 </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and 2% of total brain mass unusually <br>large flocculi; compared to other <br>animals, a science marvel, flocculus, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">a brain region integrating signals <br>from skin, muscles, joints and <br>balance organs, sending out neural </div><div style="margin:10px 0">signals to produce small, automatic <br>movements in eye muscles, to keep <br>the image on the pterosaurs' retina </div><div style="margin:10px 0">steady; pterosaurs may have had <br>such a large flocculus because of <br>their large wing size, which would </div><div style="margin:10px 0">mean that there was a great deal <br>more sensory information to <br>process) their preserved skeletons</div><div style="margin:10px 0">must be fossilized in an iced Antarctica <br>that continent of huge undiscovered <br>fossilized marvels awaiting discovery</div><div style="margin:10px 0">research new fossil discoveries paint <br>a fuller picture of an ancient lush past<br>secrets remain hidden in cold storage</div><div style="margin:10px 0">98 percent of iced continent is covered <br>ice bound year-round by an ice layered <br>mass science will not penetrate probed</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>why laser tunneled depths publicly sealed <br>only a few islands along the Antarctic <br>Peninsula yield published finds recorded </div><div style="margin:10px 0">authorities will tell you the first fossils<br>found were plesiosaurs marine reptiles<br>on Seymour Island in 1982; a hadrosaur</div><div style="margin:10px 0">on James Ross Island in 1986, this first<br>dinosaur fossil, an ankylosaur, a duck-<br>billed dinosaur, first large plant eaters </div><div style="margin:10px 0">found outside the Americas proving <br>proving; the continents past tropical <br>or temperate climate and vegetation</div><div style="margin:10px 0">but what discoveries in Byrd Expedition? <br>(secret diary flights to land beyond poles) <br>on the sides of Mt. Weaver fossil plants</div><div style="margin:10px 0">coal beds at South Pole within 200 miles <br>formed, by plants growing in profusion, <br>Ernest Shackleton reported coal proves; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">past swampy areas, the growth of enough <br>plants, to produce an observed bed of coal <br>unknown wonders remain to be unearthed</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Terence+George+Craddock">Terence George Craddock</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=525380" data-title="Great Beauty Past And Present de Terence George Craddock" data-description="Think of all the great beauty still remaining in this world... on land beaches rivers mountains at sea beneath the ocean waves all the species of incredible fishes uncounted diverse marine life in the air birds the fliers insects in their my..."></div> </div> </div>

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