Ichthyovenator is a genus of spinosaurid dinosaurs that lived in what is
now Laos, sometime between 125 and 113 million years ago. The fossils
of a single specimen were found between 2010 and 2014 and became the
holotype of the new genus and species Ichthyovenator laosensis. It is
estimated to have been 8.5 to 10.5 metres (28 to 34 feet) long and
weighed around 2.4 tonnes (2.6 short tons). Ichthyovenator is considered
a primitive member of the Spinosaurinae and would have had a long,
shallow snout and robust forelimbs. It had a sail on its back that may
have been used for sexual display or species recognition. The diet of
Ichthyovenator (meaning "fish hunter") probably consisted mainly of
aquatic prey. Spinosaurids were probably adapted for semiaquatic
lifestyles, and also ate small dinosaurs and pterosaurs. The tall
vertebral spines of Ichthyovenator's tail suggest that it may have aided
in swimming—as in today's crocodilians.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichthyovenator>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1644:
The combined forces of Scottish Covenanters and English
Parliamentarians defeated Royalist troops at the Battle of Marston Moor
(depicted), one of the decisive encounters of the English Civil War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Marston_Moor>
1917:
Amidst weeks of race riots in East St. Louis, Illinois, white
residents burned sections of the city and shot black inhabitants as they
escaped the flames.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_St._Louis_riots>
1976:
More than a year after the end of the Vietnam War, North and
South Vietnam officially merged under communist rule to form the
Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
tinge:
1. (transitive) To add a small amount of colour; to tint; (by extension)
to add a small amount of some other thing.
2. (transitive, figuratively) To affect or alter slightly, particularly
due to the actual or metaphorical influence of some element or thing.
3. (intransitive) To change slightly in shade due to the addition of
colour; (by extension) to change slightly in quality due to the addition
of some other thing.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tinge>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Granted, in daily speech, where we don't stop to consider every
word, we all use phrases like "the ordinary world," "ordinary life,"
"the ordinary course of events"… But in the language of poetry, where
every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone
and not a single cloud above it. Not a single day and not a single night
after it. And above all, not a single existence, not anyone's existence
in this world. It looks like poets will always have their work cut out
for them
--Wisława Szymborska
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wis%C5%82awa_Szymborska>
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