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More updates from larry's bday

MOre added pics...

Time to cut cake larry!!

The melted cake which i bought for larry.

They are just plain acting dumb!! haha

Now you know what the guys can do where the gals are not ard...

Clemz walked through the seasons at 6/28/2007 08:49:00 PM

Giant Ancient Penguins Liked it Hot

Huge and distant cousins of today’s ice-loving penguins might have basked in a warm climate along the Peruvian coast more than 30 million years ago, fossils of two extinct penguin species suggest.

One of the ancient birds sported a seven-inch beak and stood at five feet tall, which would have dwarfed even the heavyweights of today, the Emperor penguins. Currently, 17 penguin species inhabit the globe, ranging in size from the two-pound, 16-inch little blue penguin to the 84-pound, 4.3-foot Emperor penguin.

The skeletal bones and two complete skulls suggest the warm-weather penguins were deep divers and could “fly” through the water with the grace of their modern kin, scooping up fish along the way.

The findings, detailed online this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, call into question the established idea that penguins evolved in high latitudes and didn’t waddle close to the equator until about 10 million years ago—long after Earth cooled significantly.

“We tend to think of penguins as being cold-adapted species,” said lead study author Julia Clarke, a paleontologist at North Carolina State University and the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. “But the new fossils date back to one of the warmest periods in the last 65 million years of Earth’s history. The evidence indicates that penguins reached low-latitude regions more than 30 million years prior to our previous estimates.”

“We had known from isolated bones and limited material an array of giant penguin species from high-latitude regions,” Clarke told LiveScience, “but none from low latitudes.”

Penguin evolution

Clarke and her colleagues studied remains from two new, extinct penguin species that had been discovered in 2005 along the southern coast of Peru. The giant penguin, Icadyptes salasi lived about 36 million years ago. The second species, Perudyptes devriesi, was 2.5 to 3 feet tall and represents one of the oldest known penguin species, living about 42 million years ago.

Unlike living penguin species, the ancient, oversized birds had long, narrow beaks, with Perudyptes having an exceptionally long and spear-like beak, which Clarke said likely helped the animal gulp down large prey and attain its towering stature.

Perudyptes had features indicating a transition from wing to paddle. For instance, the giant penguin’s wing muscles were reduced compared with flight-able birds, “which basically are part of the changes to get to a paddle-like structure--you reduce these intrinsic wing muscles,” Clarke said.

To find out how the penguins landed in low-latitude regions, the scientists examined the geographic distribution and evolutionary relationships of other extinct penguins.

The results suggest the two Peruvian species result from separate dispersals, with the ancestors of Perudyptes dwelling in Antarctica before their equator-bound trek and Icadyptes originating near New Zealand.

Clemz walked through the seasons at 6/27/2007 09:43:00 AM

Larry's birthday

We celebrated larry's birthday at suntec today.

We had pasta at pastamania...

The last gathering of O one O seven was quite long ago..

I'm glad that there were still 5 of us who came down for his birthday.

That's him eating the nice cake that we bought him.

And we gave him a very unique present!!

A condom and a lubricant!!

That's the happy china boy.

The first sentence that came from his mouth was "You bastards", "who's ideal was it" haha

Obviously, his gf was beside him..

Now he can have fun and avoid unwanted pregnancies at the same time!!

Clemz walked through the seasons at 6/24/2007 10:10:00 PM

My dad just broght back a california roll back from his workplace..

This roll cost $6 each.

And it contains whole prawn!!

YUm!!

Of cos, its inside my tummy now!!

Earlier in the afternoon,

went to visit my cousin in law who had just given birth..

That's my beautiful mum, carrying the baby..

The baby is unnamed yet...

If u have nice names,

please contribute..

haha

Clemz walked through the seasons at 6/21/2007 12:38:00 AM

Desaru trip

I was away to desaru, Malaysia last sat.

Visited the ostrich farm...

The polish chicken played dead...

Surprizingly, the ostrich eggs could support my brother who's composed of 60kg of fats.

as well as mini mango farm...

Mango tree with lots of mangoes.

Mangoes for sale... Yum Yum..

Not forgetting some herbs farm...

Surprisingly, such farms were owned by residents.

Addmission is free, but the catch is,

you would be tempted to buy the stuffs they sell there...

Passed by some souveniors shops as well...

And there is really something wrong with this picture!!

Can u spot the mistake??!!

Clemz walked through the seasons at 6/18/2007 09:35:00 PM

What a shocking sight in sch!!

I was in school today,

And when i stepped into the toilet,

i discovered a shocking discovery.

Ray is actually a man!!

And i discovered Felicia naked in the toilet!! LOL!!

Hmmm....

Wonder what both of them were doing in the male toliet??

Clemz walked through the seasons at 6/12/2007 11:18:00 AM

FYP blog

My fyp team has created a website.

http://thisisfunctionalfood.blogspot.com/

Do patronise and give comments :D

Clemz walked through the seasons at 6/11/2007 01:13:00 AM

some worthless fellows stole my used shirt

My 2 SnK shirt was stolen today!!
I left it at the toilet and forgot to take it.
And when i returned to collect it,
some ugly singaporeans stole it.

How unlucky!
I have to blame my carelessness.
The only chance i had to wear it was at the fitting room.
Alrite,
to the person who stole my shirt:
Since u like my scent so much,
i'll take it that i'll donate it to u...

Clemz walked through the seasons at 6/05/2007 12:16:00 AM