Latest news with #Pachycephalosaurus
South China Morning Post
22-07-2025
- General
- South China Morning Post
Food influencers with their LED camera lights at restaurants must be stopped
Let me tell you about something that happened to me. If it sounds familiar, you have my pity. I was at a restaurant in Hong Kong that will remain unnamed. Suffice to say, it is a place I like, but not the kind of place I can visit often unless my landlord starts accepting IOUs. Nestling into the plush, intimate space, I noticed one table was getting quite a lot of attention. A glad-handing session with the chef before any food had been served was enough to confirm that they were Very Important People. Now I am, at best, a Person of Ordinary Importance, and acutely aware of it. Getting special treatment makes me feel like someone's waiting around the corner with a terminal diagnosis or a jury summons. But I do not begrudge the white-glove service for others, as long as it does not affect me or the rest of the hoi polloi. So I thought nothing of it. That is, until their dishes arrived. And out came the cameras. Not the ones we all have in our pockets, mind you. No, these were the kind you have to lug around on a strap, the kind that could inflict head trauma on a Pachycephalosaurus.
International Business Times
17-07-2025
- Science
- International Business Times
Largest Mars Rock Ever Found on Earth Just Sold – The Price Will Shock You!
The largest piece of Mars ever discovered on Earth, an "unbelievably rare" piece, was sold for $4.3 million (£3.2 million) on Wednesday, July 16, at an auction in New York. According to Sotheby's, the meteorite, designated NWA 16788, is approximately 15 inches (38.1 cm) long and weighs 54 pounds (24.5 kg). The auction house said that it was found in a remote area of Niger in November 2023 and is 70% bigger than the next largest piece of recovered Mars. The rock fragments left over after an asteroid or comet travels through Earth's atmosphere are known as meteorites. The reddish-brown meteorite rock was described as "unbelievably rare" by Sotheby's auction house. Only about 400 Martian meteorites have ever been found on Earth. Cassandra Hatton, vice-chairman of science and natural history at Sotheby's, said in a video, "This is the largest piece of Mars on planet Earth. The odds of this getting from there to here are astronomically small." "Remember that approximately 70% of Earth's surface is covered in water. So we're incredibly lucky that this landed on dry land instead of the middle of the ocean where we could actually find it," Hatton added in the clip, which was shared online. Since details of the sale will be kept confidential, it is still unknown where the meteorite will end up. According to Sotheby's, additional taxes and fees increased the rock's total price to roughly $5.3 million. A late Jurassic Ceratosaurus skeleton brought $26 million at the Wednesday auction, which included over 100 items, while a Pachycephalosaurus skull brought $1.4 million.
