Ohmdenosaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur that lived during the
Early Jurassic epoch in what is now Germany. The only known specimen
(pictured) – a tibia (shinbone) and ankle – was discovered in
rocks of the Posidonia Shale near the village of Ohmden. The specimen is
exhibited in a local museum, where, in the 1970s, the German
palaeontologist Rupert Wild recognised it as the remains of a sauropod.
One of the earliest known sauropods, Ohmdenosaurus was quadrupedal
(four-legged) and already had the columnar limbs typical for the group.
It was small for a sauropod, with an estimated length of 3 to 4 m (10
to 13 ft). Its relationships to other sauropods remain uncertain due to
the incompleteness of its remains. The Posidonia Shale was deposited
within a shallow inland sea. Ohmdenosaurus was a terrestrial animal, so
the specimen must have been transported by predators or water currents
at least 100 km (62 mi) from the shoreline to its site of burial. It
is the only dinosaur fossil known from the shale.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohmdenosaurus>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1897:
French actress, journalist and leading suffragette Marguerite
Durand founded the feminist newspaper La Fronde.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Fronde_%28newspaper%29>
1948:
The United Nations General Assembly adopted the Genocide
Convention, which defines genocide in legal terms and advises its
signatories to prevent and punish such actions.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_Convention>
1968:
Douglas Engelbart gave what became known as "The Mother of All
Demos", publicly debuting the computer mouse, hypertext, and the bit-
mapped graphical user interface using the oN-Line System (NLS).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos>
2008:
Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich was arrested for a number
of corruption crimes, including attempting to sell the U.S. Senate seat
that was being vacated by then-President-elect Barack Obama.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Blagojevich_corruption_charges>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
tanzanite:
A trichroic violet-blue variety of the mineral zoisite mined in
Tanzania, used as a gemstone.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tanzanite>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
With thee conversing I forget all time, All seasons, and their
change; all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising
sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun When first on
this delightful land he spreads His orient beams on herb, tree, fruit,
and flower, Glist'ring with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft
showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful ev'ning mild; then silent
night With this her solemn bird and this fair moon, And these the gems
of heaven, her starry train.
--Paradise Lost
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost>
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