Megalosuaroid Therapod
Sciurimimus albersdoerferi This beautifully preserved specimen of a juvenile Sciurimimus albersdoerferi appears to have had a fluffy coat of feathers across its entire body, scientists reported last...
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Snaggletooth
Guidraco venator This snaggle-toothed skull belonged to Guidraco venator, a carnivorous pterosaur that took to the air 120 million years ago with a wingspan up to 3 meters (15 feet). Yes, we know...
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Dental exam Joseph Kerwin, medical officer of the Skylab 2 mission, gives a dental exam to commander Pete Conrad. Image: (NASA)
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Dinner Astronaut Owen Garriott enjoys a meal during the Skylab-3 mission. Food on Skylab was better than that on earlier spaceflights. Instead of squeezing liquified food from plastic tubes, crew...
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Undocking NASA's caption: Skylab 4, Skylab Multiple Docking Adapter (MDA), Apollo Telescope Mount (ATM) and solar array as the Apollo Command Module undocks and moves away. Image: (NASA)
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Mission patches Each of the three manned Skylab missions had its own patch emblazoned with the names of the crew. Image: (NASA)
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Space walk Astronaut Owen Garriott photographed during the Skylab 3 mission. Garriott had just deployed the Skylab Particle Collection S149 Experiment, the goal of which was to collect and study...
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Back to Earth Skylab was never meant to come back down to Earth in one piece. In the summer of 1979, Skylab's imminent return to Earth via managed re-entry set off a fair amount of media hysteria....
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Skylab Illustrated This illustration shows a cutaway of Skylab with all its major components. The Command and Service Module was a hand me down from the Apollo program that was used to ferry the crew...
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