From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #9424 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Saturday, July 30 2022 Volume 14 : Number 9424 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Quick Test: Is Your Dizziness a Sign of Brain Infection? ["Brain Cells" <] Congratulations! You can get a $100 Walmart gift card! ["Walmart Shopper ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2022 11:30:04 -0400 From: "Brain Cells" Subject: Quick Test: Is Your Dizziness a Sign of Brain Infection? Quick Test: Is Your Dizziness a Sign of Brain Infection? http://claritoxpro.sa.com/Wxm4Mj9Scj0mY7GAuAX8i-sql4gDq1O-42TzLNMnV7uGFNrrqQ http://claritoxpro.sa.com/sCW-okiqvfOZCpOhvI_oOYHIB29Dsrf-buBGPdKv6cQ1A6cBMA temperature maritime settings. In 2013, Witton agreed that the substantially larger crests of adult thalassodromids indicated that they were more important for behavioural activities than for physiology. He found the idea that the crests were used for thermoregulation problematic, since they did not grow regularly with body size; they grew at a fast pace in near-adults, quicker than what would be predicted for the growth of a thermoregulatory structure. According to Witton, the large, highly vascular wing membranes of pterosaurs would provide the surface area needed for thermoregulation, meaning the crests were not needed for that function. He concluded that the crest's blood-vessel patterns did not differ much from those seen on bones under the beaks of birds, which are used for transporting nutrients to the bone and soft tissues rather than for thermoregulation. Witton noted that although bird beaks lose heat quickly, that is not what they were developed for; the crests of pterosaurs might also have had an effect on thermoregulation, without this being their primary function. Photo of a toucan with a long, bright bill The crest of T. sethi has been compared to a toucan's bill. PC*gas and colleagues noted that sexual dimorphism in crest size and shape has been proposed for some pterosaurs; the crest shape seen in the T. sethi holotype may correlate with one sex and may have been the result of sexual selection. They suggested that both sexes could have had similar crests due to mutual sexual selection, but interpretation of exaggerated features was challenging due to the small sample size; more T. sethi specimens would have to be found to evaluate these theories. They did not think that thermoregulation correlated with crest growth relative to body size, since the bills of toucans (the largest of any modern birds) grow drastically out of proportion to body size and function as thermoregulatory structures, as well as facilitating feeding and soc ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2022 04:26:58 -0400 From: "Walmart Shopper Feedback" Subject: Congratulations! You can get a $100 Walmart gift card! Congratulations! You can get a $100 Walmart gift card! http://walmarrtsurvey.sa.com/UJbMNqsmfmwP5N-CaadwSln4oQiEtRHa9jGwSE1dsxCt6Swa0Q http://walmarrtsurvey.sa.com/mbko-YaZnbP4fLyoa_HKW9HH6sK9I4FBAarW_Pl-1NeH2RlX6A alassodromeus is a genus of pterosaur that lived in what is now Brazil during the Early Cretaceous period, about a hundred million years ago. The original skull, discovered in 1983 in the Araripe Basin of northeastern Brazil, was collected in several pieces. In 2002, the skull was made the holotype specimen of Thalassodromeus sethi by palaeontologists Alexander Kellner and Diogenes de Almeida Campos. The generic name means "sea runner" (in reference to its supposed mode of feeding), and the specific name refers to the Egyptian god Seth due to its crest being supposedly reminiscent of Seth's crown. Other scholars have pointed out that the crest was instead similar to the crown of Amon. A jaw tip was assigned to T. sethi in 2005, became the basis of the new genus Banguela in 2014, and assigned back to Thalassodromeus as the species T. oberlii in 2018. Another species (T. sebesensis) was named in 2015 based on a supposed crest fragment, but this was later shown to be part of a turtle shell. Thalassodromeus had one of the largest known skulls among pterosaurs, around 1.42 m (4 ft 8 in) long, with one of the proportionally largest cranial crests of any vertebrate. Though only the skull is known, the animal is estimated to have had a wingspan of 4.2 to 4.5 m (14 to 15 ft). The crest was lightly built and ran from the tip of the upper jaw to beyond the back of the skull, ending in a unique V-shaped notch. The jaws were toothless, and had sharp upper and lower edges. Its skull had large nasoantorbital fenestrae (opening that combined the antorbital fenestra in front of the eye with the bony n ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #9424 **********************************************