[Daily article] October 28: Cetiosauriscus

Cetiosauriscus was a sauropod dinosaur that lived between 166 and
164 million years ago, during the Middle Jurassic. It was a herbivore
with a moderately long tail and long forelimbs, compared to other
sauropods. It has been estimated at about 15 metres (49 ft) long and
between 4 and 10 tonnes (3.9 and 9.8 long tons; 4.4 and 11.0 short tons)
in weight. Its only known fossil includes a hindlimb and most of the
rear half of a skeleton. Found in Cambridgeshire, England, in the 1890s,
it was described by Arthur Smith Woodward in 1905 as a new specimen of
the species Cetiosaurus leedsi, which was moved to the new genus
Cetiosauriscus in 1927 by Friedrich von Huene. In 1980, Alan Charig
proposed the current name Cetiosauriscus stewarti. The fossil was found
in the marine deposits of the Oxford Clay Formation alongside many
invertebrate groups, marine ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs and crocodylians,
a single pterosaur, and various dinosaurs, including an ankylosaur,
stegosaurs, and an ornithopod.

Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cetiosauriscus>

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Today's selected anniversaries:

1707:

The Hōei earthquake ruptured all segments of the Nankai
megathrust simultaneously – the only earthquake known to have done
this.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1707_H%C5%8Dei_earthquake>

1918:

The Czechoslovak provisional government declared the country's
independence from Austria-Hungary, forming the First Czechoslovak
Republic in Prague.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czechoslovak_declaration_of_independence>

1940:

World War II: Italy invaded Greece after Greek prime minister
Ioannis Metaxas rejected Benito Mussolini's ultimatum demanding the
cession of Greek territory.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Italian_War>

1995:

A fire broke out on a Baku Metro train in Azerbaijan's capital,
killing 289 people and injuring 270 others in the world's deadliest
subway disaster.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_Baku_Metro_fire>

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Wiktionary's word of the day:

townland:
(Ireland) A geographical unit of land smaller than a parish.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/townland>

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Wikiquote quote of the day:

  When I was a kid, the disaster we worried about most was a
nuclear war. That's why we had a barrel … down in our basement,
filled with cans of food and water. When the nuclear attack came, we
were supposed to go downstairs, hunker down, and eat out of that barrel.
Today, the greatest risk of global catastrophe doesn't look like this.
… If anything kills over 10 million people in the next few decades,
it's most likely to be a highly infectious virus rather than a war.
Not missiles, but microbes.  
--Bill Gates
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bill_Gates>

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