http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/www.strangescience.net Comments & Reviews of http://www.strangescience.net/ on StumbleUpon en-us Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:48:45 -0800 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:39:24 -0800 http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/www.strangescience.net http://cdn.stumble-upon.com/images/logo_su_36x36.png Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:56:58 -0700 http://ian-atkinson.stumbleupon.com/review/35223643/ ian-atkinson - A superb site packed with information.]]> http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/www.strangescience.net Sun, 14 Jun 2009 09:12:45 -0700 http://chainedjoule.stumbleupon.com/review/33581157/ chainedjoule - Not just dinosaurs - but they are here. This site has a little bit of everything odd.]]> http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/www.strangescience.net Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:29:56 -0700 http://lotus1150.stumbleupon.com/review/32295456/ Lotus1150 - From the page: The ancient Greeks realized that species changed over time, and that some fossils belonged to organisms that had once lived in very different environments.]]> http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/www.strangescience.net Mon, 09 Mar 2009 07:13:37 -0700 http://amirandasif.stumbleupon.com/review/30906041/ amirandasif - check it out]]> http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/www.strangescience.net Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:16:50 -0800 http://touchofevil.stumbleupon.com/review/28995559/ TouchOfEvil -
From the page: "The ancient Greeks realized that species changed over time, and that some fossils belonged to organisms that had once lived in very different environments. These findings, however, didn't survive the subsequent centuries intact. To medieval and even Renaissance Europeans, fossils were steeped in mystery and superstition, although the Renaissance saw a surge of interest in the natural world, and in collecting curiosities. Some aristocrats even published descriptions of their collections, like this sample of flora and fauna from the court of Emperor Rudolf II. Collections often consisted of misidentified or forged specimens, but we should be grateful for these curiosity cabinets just the same - they were the forerunners of modern museums. Strange ideas didn't end with the Middle Ages. Savants took centuries to unravel the process of fossilization, many of them suspecting that nature fashioned odd stones just for fun. Living animals often proved as puzzling as fossils when scholars had to make sense of the weird specimens that explorers brought back to Europe from other continents. And belief in monsters and omens persisted well into the Renaissance, fueled in part by the religious tensions of the Reformation. But over time, fascination with oddities led to a better understanding of the history of life. Starting in the late 18th century, Georges Buffon and later Georges Cuvier suggested that the earth was much older than anyone had previously imagined. By studying the fossil record, 19th-century geologist John Phillips divided the ages of the earth into three eras: Paleozoic (old life), Mesozoic (middle life) and Cenozoic (new life). Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species describing natural selection as a driving force in evolution. William Buckland and Gideon Mantell published the first descriptions of a certain group fossil reptiles, later to be given the much more popular name of "dinosaurs" by Sir Richard Owen."

]]> http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/www.strangescience.net Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:34:42 -0700 http://theerinyes.stumbleupon.com/review/25775136/ TheErinyes - ]]> http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/www.strangescience.net Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:04:02 -0700 http://doktor-caligari.stumbleupon.com/review/24277708/ Doktor-Caligari - Lots of strangeness here, if you go looking in the galleries. More than just comedy, this site shows the reaction of the European imagination to what must have seemed utterly alien (ie, the animals of africa and the new world) I suspect that if we ever find life on another planet, the first few depictions wouldn't be so different.]]> http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/www.strangescience.net Mon, 28 Jul 2008 02:02:21 -0700 http://seebrentwrite.stumbleupon.com/review/23824890/ seebrentwrite - Compendium of Natural Oddities]]> http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/www.strangescience.net Sat, 31 May 2008 07:01:04 -0700 http://photophor.stumbleupon.com/review/11137504/ photophor - Lucid if eclectic lead into story of how 'trench finds' (sc. fossils) gradually got to be understood. ]]> http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/www.strangescience.net