Actress Diana Rigg passed away yesterday due to cancer that was diagnosed in March.
Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg, this is her full name, was born on July 20, 1938, in Doncaster, Yorkshire. Diana Rigg’s acting career began in the theater, and in the late 1950s, she also began to find roles in television productions. Fame came when she was cast to play Emma Peel in the TV show “The Avengers”.
The novel “The Technicolor Time Machine” by Harry Harrison was published for the first time in 1967.
Climactic Studio is about to shut down, also because its owner L. M. Greenspan has always used the income for his personal purposes. Barney Hendrickson is too poor a director to hope for a good job and is forced to come up with what seems like an absolutely insane project: shooting a movie in the past transporting the crew in a time machine created by progessor Hewitt.
L. M. Greenspan is persuaded to give Barney Hendrickson a minimal budget for a movie about the Vikings to be shot in the year 1,000. After their arrival, they capture a Viking named Ottar and, despite the language problems, convince him to work for them as a local contact to procure the services of other Vikings to act in the movie. However, complications in the present and in the past risk wrecking the project.
10 years ago the NetMassimo blog made its debut. Many things have changed, and probably many more will change in the future. After the first period of experiments, the blog started having a more defined structure in terms of themes covered, but it was never static, so it could still transform in the future in ways that I can’t even predict now.
An article published in the journal “Current Biology” reports the study of a fossil embryo of titanosaur dating back to about 80 million years ago, in the Cretaceous period, that came from Argentina. A team of researchers led by Dr. Martin Kundrat used sophisticated techniques to study it. The egg around it was dissolved by applying very carefully an acid preparation, and at that point, the embryo was scanned at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble, France, which made it possible to create a three-dimensional reproduction. The examination offers new insight into the development of sauropods, the large group of herbivorous dinosaurs, and particularly their skulls, indicating that at least titanosaurs had stereoscopic vision and a horn like rhinos that was lost in adulthood.
An article published in the journal “Science” reports the study of the fossil remains of an ichthyosaur whose almost complete skeleton includes some sort of extras in the form of the fossil remains of another reptile, a thalattosaur of the species Xinpusaurus xingyiensis, in its stomach. A team of researchers examined these fossils discovered in China and dating back to the Triassic period attributing them to a Guizhouichthyosaurus tangae, a species belonging to the group of ichthyosaurs. There are arguments among paleontologists that they could be apex predators in their ecosystems, and the fact that an ichthyosaur devoured an animal as large as a thalattosaur is considered evidence that at least that species was indeed an apex predator.
