Rhamphorhynchus was a dinosaur of the family Rhamphorhynchidae, of the mid to late Jurassic period. Rhamphorhynchus was a pterosaur which hade evolved from earlier, similar dinosaurs over 70 million years. Rhamphorhynchus was a long-tailed flying dinosaur, various species have been identified with wing spans of between 40 cm and 175 cm, their remains having been found in Europe and East Africa. The skull of Rhamphorhynchus was large, elongated and with a pointed front end. The neck was short and compact, comprised of short vertebrae. The jaws were furnished with long, pointed teeth that curved forwards and outwards indicating they were used to catch moving prey. The arms were highly modified as wings, and an adaptation in the wrist supported a membrane which ran across to the neck and may have prevented the animal from stalling in low speed flight. Research Rhamphorhynchus
In geology a hade is the deviation of a fault plane from the vertical. The direction of the hade is the direction toward which the fault plane descends from an intersecting vertical line. Research Hade
A stola was a long, loose garment originally of ancient Greece - where it was worn as an under garment - and worn by married Roman women over the tunic and reaching down to the feet. The bottom of the stola was decorated with a sewn border. The stola was usually gathered and confined at the waist by a girdle, at sometimes decorated at the throat with a coloured border. The stola hade either short or long sleeves and was fastened over the shoulder by a fibula. Research Stola
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