lived around 17 million years ago during the early Miocene. Fossils from
one species, S. alpinus, have been taken from rock strata in Oberdorf
am Hochegg in Austria, Karydia in Greece, and Tägernaustrasse in
Switzerland. A second species, S. bolligeri, was found at a single site
in Affalterbach, Germany. Identified from many isolated teeth, both
species were medium-sized dormice, with flat teeth characterized by long
transverse crests coupled with shorter ones. Seorsumuscardinus may be
related to Muscardinus, the genus of the living hazel dormouse, which
appears in the fossil record at about the same time, and the older
Glirudinus. Because the two known species lived at different times, the
paleontologist Jerome Prieto has suggested that the genus may be useful
for biostratigraphy, the use of fossils to determine the age of
deposits.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seorsumuscardinus>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1689:
Jacobite risings: Jacobite clans supporting the deposed king
James VII of Scotland clashed with a government regiment of Covenanters
supporting William of Orange, in the streets around Dunkeld Cathedral,
Dunkeld, Scotland.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Dunkeld>
1858:
The first of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen
A. Douglas (both pictured), candidates for an Illinois seat in the
United States Senate, was held in Ottawa, Illinois.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%E2%80%93Douglas_debates>
1945:
American physicist Harry K. Daghlian, Jr. accidentally dropped
a tungsten carbide brick onto a delta phase plutonium bomb core and
exposed himself to a lethal dose of neutron radiation, becoming the
first known fatality due to a criticality accident 25 days later.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_K._Daghlian,_Jr.>
1986:
A limnic eruption of a cloud of carbon dioxide from Lake Nyos
in Cameroon killed up to 1,700 people and 3,500 livestock in nearby
villages.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Nyos>
2013:
Syrian Civil War: Rockets containing sarin struck the
opposition-controlled portions of the Ghouta suburbs of Damascus,
resulting in at least 281 deaths.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghouta_chemical_attack>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
water of crystallization:
(chemistry) The water present in the crystals of the salts of certain
metals; it is weakly bound by electrostatic forces and may normally be
removed by heating.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/water_of_crystallization>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
All we can do is live every single day and do our best to be
present with the ones that we love and with everybody that we come in
contact with … The timing of everything seems too divine sometimes to
ignore.
--Alicia Witt
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alicia_Witt>
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