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Australian earless dragon last seen in 1969 rediscovered in secret location. Victorian grassland earless dragon was once common west of Melbourne but numbers declined due to habitat loss and predators such as feral cats.
posted by chariot pulled by cassowaries at 11:49 PM PST - 8 comments

Dinosaurs have had a rich history within the film industry, brought to life on the big screen with the use of an array of methods and featuring in many different genres. [SLYT]
posted by rebent at 5:40 PM PST - 11 comments

Veteran gamblers know you can’t beat the horses. There are too many variables and too many possible outcomes. Front-runners break a leg. Jockeys fall. Champion thoroughbreds decide, for no apparent reason, that they’re simply not in the mood ... Play for long enough, and failure isn’t just likely but inevitable—so the wisdom goes. “If you bet on horses, you will lose,” says Warwick Bartlett, who runs Global Betting & Gaming Consultants and has spent years studying the industry ... What if that wasn’t true? from The Gambler Who Cracked the Horse-Racing Code [Bloomberg; ungated]
posted by chavenet at 12:12 PM PST - 38 comments

Do you know your town like the back of your hand? Then prove it, with, uh, Back Of Your Hand, a web game that asks you to identify randomly selected streets on a map and scores you on how close you got. [more inside]
posted by cortex at 10:50 AM PST - 46 comments

"Egregore," by merritt k, is a short story about what happens when you make up a guy to get mad at and the guy gets mad at you back. [more inside]
posted by babelfish at 7:51 AM PST - 52 comments

Happy Pride Month! It was the song Same Love that launched Mary Lambert [Wikipedia] into the stratosphere. The spoken word poet pivoted her career toward music, landing Secrets on top of the US Dance charts. Her most recent album, 2021's Grief Creature [Bandcamp] took five years, as she explains to Front Row Live in an interview about the album [19m]. The Advocate talked to her shortly before the album's release. [more inside]
posted by hippybear at 5:53 AM PST - 2 comments

Come, fellow MeFites, and obnixely enter texts into this fiendish and ancient device. Of anecdotes and tales, baboonery lived, stories told and untold. Of travels to the underworld, of delicacies enjoyed, of a Yule of past or a Yule to come. Be not an agelast on reading, but be wakerife and stub not thy hallux on reaching for keyboard or quill, for this threade be free...
posted by Wordshore at 3:41 AM PST - 142 comments