Sir Charles Lyell's historical fossils accessible online

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Sir Charles Lyell's historical fossils (London's Natural 

History Museum) accessible online, February 21, 2019, 

Pensoft Publishers

https://phys.org/news/2019-02-sir-charles-lyell-historical-fossils.html

 

Consuelo Sendino, The Lyell Collection at the Earth 

Sciences Department, Natural History Museum, 

London (UK), Biodiversity Data Journal (2019). 

DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.7.e33504 

https://bdj.pensoft.net/article/33504/

 

Although completely unrelated, the below article is

quite interesting.

 

Why Do Zebras Have Stripes? 

By JoAnna Klein, New York times, Feb. 20, 2019

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/20/science/zebra-stripes-flies.html

 

Tim Caro, Yvette Argueta, Emmanuelle Sophie 

Briolat, Joren Bruggink, Maurice Kasprowsky, 

Jai Lake, Matthew J. Mitchell, Sarah Richardson, 

and Martin How. 2019, Benefits of zebra stripes: 

Behaviour of tabanid flies around zebras and horses.

PLOS ONE. Published: February 20, 2019

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0210831

 

Yours,

 

Paul H.