There is a perfectly good palaeontology story around this week about the discovery of freshwater plesiosaurs in Cretaceous sediments in Morocco - https://www.sciencedaily.com/release...0727110711.htm
This would be interesting and exciting in and of itself, even though not by any means the first such find, but does show that things were more complicated than had been thought.
However, note both the second and closing paragraphs of that piece: gratuitous references to the nonsense that is the Loch Ness monster.
FFS, this is Science Daily...Does its target audience need that sort of rubbish to draw them in?
What is worse is the SD piece is a copy/pasta from Bath University's pubilicity piece about the paper...
The blog of one of the authors - https://www.nicklongrich.com/blog/wh...year-old-river - does not contain such idiocy.
There are worse examples out there on this story: one on the Independent the other day (no, I'm not linking to it as it's too stupid) was especially bad.
I can see some need to try to make stories " accessible", but resorting to down right idiocy of that sort? Really? We can't discuss geology except in terms of some **** a couple of hoteliers in Drumnadrochit made up pretty much a century ago?
This would be interesting and exciting in and of itself, even though not by any means the first such find, but does show that things were more complicated than had been thought.
However, note both the second and closing paragraphs of that piece: gratuitous references to the nonsense that is the Loch Ness monster.
FFS, this is Science Daily...Does its target audience need that sort of rubbish to draw them in?
What is worse is the SD piece is a copy/pasta from Bath University's pubilicity piece about the paper...
The blog of one of the authors - https://www.nicklongrich.com/blog/wh...year-old-river - does not contain such idiocy.
There are worse examples out there on this story: one on the Independent the other day (no, I'm not linking to it as it's too stupid) was especially bad.
I can see some need to try to make stories " accessible", but resorting to down right idiocy of that sort? Really? We can't discuss geology except in terms of some **** a couple of hoteliers in Drumnadrochit made up pretty much a century ago?
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