An article published in the journal “PeerJ” describes the study of the fossils of a dinosaur named Vouivria damparisensis. A team of researchers led by Dr. Philip Mannion of the Imperial College, London, re-examined these fossils discovered in 1934 in France, never identified and stored in the National Museum d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris concluding that it’s the oldest Titanosauriform discovered so far.
An article published in the journal “Nature” describes the discovery of fossils of a species of marine arthropods that lived a little more than 500 million years ago in the Permian period. Calling Tokummia Katalepsis, this species is one of the many discovered in Burgess Shale and is important because according to Cédric Ariz and Jean-Bernard Caron of the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) it shows the origin of mandibulates (Mandibulata), a group of arthropods that includes millipedes, crustaceans and insects.
The novel “Stations of the Tide” by Michael Swanwick was published for the first time between 1990 and 1991 in two parts in the magazine “Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine” and in 1991 as a book. It won the Nebula Award as best novel of the year.
The bureaucrat was sent to Miranda to capture Gregorian, a native who studied on other planets and brought banned technologies to Miranda, a world in quarantine. This on the eve of a series of strong climatic changes due to the planet’s particular astronomical configuration that will lead it to being almost completely submerged by its waters.
The bureaucrat’s investigation is complicated by a number of factors such as the unique culture that has developed on the planet Miranda. Gregorian is a magician who promises to transform the natives into creatures that can live in the ocean. To find him, one needs to understand him and the bureaucrat looks for his family and the people who studied magic with him, ending up in a relationship with a witch.
