Image backlog clearing
 

From the selection of stuff that I didn't think was good enough for the regular IotD ---

http://cellar.org/2003/pterosaur.jpg

In Brazil they found a new version of pterosaur which lived 100 million years ago. It would eat by skimming the water, as shown. Interesting, but just not interesting enough, I thought. Ananova story

http://cellar.org/2003/watervole.jpg

This is a water vole. Its numbers are declining rapidly in Britain because people confuse it for a rat.

http://cellar.org/2003/turnerentry.jpg

Last year we had the Turner Prize winning entry which was an empty gallery space where the lights would go on and off. I didn't see if there was a winner this year, but this was one of the entries: "The Thinker", by Keith Tyson. It apparently contains a computer. I thought this would be interesting and saved the image, but there wasn't enough information in the caption to explain the entry any further, and I never learned anything more about it.

http://cellar.org/2003/squirrelmonkey.jpg

This is a squirrel monkey and its baby. Very cute.

http://cellar.org/2003/janeausten.jpg

Apparently they had a lot of descriptions of Jane Austen but no portraits; she never sat for one. So a forensic police artist painted one up from all the available information. This is the author as she might have looked like in 1805 or so.

http://cellar.org/2003/4wingdino.jpg

This was fully covered by other places. A bunch of skeletons found in China suggest new ideas about the evolution of flight. This is a conception of what the four-winged dino might have looked like. New Sci article

Isn't that piece titled "The Thinker" one of the case towers for a Cray?

Looks like a Cray X-MP case, except I think the Cray cases were only about half that size. Maybe it's just perspective.

If that's what it is, I say just coming up with a clever title isn't art.