Heterodontosaurus was a dinosaur of the Early Jurassic, 200–190
million years ago. It was named in 1962 after a skull fossil was
discovered in South Africa. The genus name means "different toothed
lizard", in reference to its unusual heterodont dentition, including
small, incisor-like teeth in the upper jaw, followed by long, canine-
like tusks. Additional specimens have been found, including an almost
complete skeleton in 1966. Though it was a small dinosaur,
Heterodontosaurus was one of the largest members of its family, reaching
between 1.18 m (3.9 ft) and possibly 1.75 m (5.7 ft) in length, and
weighing between 2 and 10 kg (4.4 and 22.0 lb). The body was short
with a long tail. The five-fingered forelimbs were long and relatively
robust; the hind-limbs were long, slender, and had four toes. The skull
was elongated, narrow, and triangular when viewed from the side. The
front of the jaws were covered in a keratinous beak.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterodontosaurus>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1588:
Day of the Barricades: Under the leadership of Henry I, Duke of
Guise, Catholic Parisians arose in protest against the moderate policies
of Henry III.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_Barricades>
1888:
North Borneo was established as a British protectorate.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Borneo>
1968:
The 1st Australian Task Force began the defence of Fire Support
Base Coral in the largest unit-level action of the Vietnam War for the
Australian Army.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Coral%E2%80%93Balmoral>
1998:
Four students were shot and killed at Trisakti University in
Indonesia, leading to widespread riots and eventually the fall of
Suharto.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trisakti_shootings>
2008:
In Postville, Iowa, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
conducted the largest-ever raid of a workplace and arrested nearly 400
immigrants for identity theft and document fraud.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postville_raid>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
runcible:
(humorous) A nonce word used for humorous effect, and perhaps originally
to maintain the number of syllables in lines of poems.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/runcible>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Perhaps it is not true to speak of God as a judge at all, or of
his judgements. There does not seem to be really any evidence that His
worlds are places of trial but rather schools, places of training, or
that He is a judge but rather a Teacher, a Trainer, not in the imperfect
sense in which men are teachers, but in the sense of His contriving and
adapting His whole universe for one purpose of training every
intelligent being to be perfect. … I think God would not be the
Almighty, the All-Wise, the All-Good, if he were the judge, in the sense
that the evangelical and Roman Catholic Christians impute judgement to
him. … Our business is, I think, to understand, not to judge. What He
does is, as far as we know, to rule by law down to the most
infinitesimally small portion of His universe, not to judge.
--Florence Nightingale
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Florence_Nightingale>