First Land Animal Didn't Walk On Land Using Four Legs

Source: RedOrbit

Scientists say that the 360-million-year-old animal that was first to have moved around on land did not do so using four legs. Images have shown that Ichthyostega walked on land similar to how a salamander walks around today ...
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Interview – Lucy Dyson

Source: The Design Files

Lucy Dyson is a Melbourne-born, Berlin-based artist, animator and music video director with an incredible body of work under her belt for someone born in 1981! Since graduating from RMIT in Media Arts in 2005, she has pr ...
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First terrestrial animals shuffled onto land using front limbs like crutches

Source: New Kerala

Rotating limbs and spines first evolved in sea dwellers for swimming. Later these limbs and spines were used by some animals to move on land. The transition from swimming to walking involved some awkward first steps, ...
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First creature to walk on land 'dragged itself along' - like it was on crutches

Source: Daily Mail - UK

One of the first creatures to walk on land didn’t scamper gracefully out of the waves. Instead, the creature, known as Ichthyostega, would have hauled itself up on its front limbs like it was on crutches. Previously, scientists ...
Full article at: Daily Mail - UK  More like this  1 day ago, 4:34am CDT

First terrestrial animals shuffled onto land

Source: MSNBC

The transition from swimming to walking involved some awkward first steps, according to a new study that recreated how one of the first animals, which left the sea for land, moved. The study found that that the fishy four ...
Full article at: MSNBC  More like this  2 days ago, 5:46pm CDT

Tetrapods actually couldn't walk

Source: Adelaide Now

British scientists reconstructed an ancient tetrapod into a computer 3D animation to prove that it could not walk on land, but rather dragged itself along with its two front legs. Picture: Stephanie Pierce Source: Supplied THEY have b ...
Full article at: Adelaide Now  More like this  2 days ago, 3:07pm CDT

Dream Studio 12.04 has been released

Source: LXer

Dick MacInnis has announced the release of Dream Studio 12.04, an Ubuntu-based distribution with a goal of helping users to create graphics, videos, music and websites. Dream Studio is an Ubuntu-based distr ...
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San José State University Interior Design Students Win Big at IIDA Awards with modo-generated Submissions

Source: PRWeb

modo brings my mind beyond the pencil and paper into a world of deformers, falloffs, shaders and effects that can quickly and accurately bring what I see in my head out into the real world. When words fall short, ...
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Let’s Play Rayman 3D – Walkthrough part 4

Source: 360-Faces

I like your tune its so funny kept me intersested u press b and it tells u what the levels called I have this game and i wish they would tell you the levels also. can u help wit gettin across the other passage thats what im stuck on and theres nothin ...
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