Selkirk has commemorated the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War with the installation of a striking outline of a British Tommy at the war memorial. Credit: Rob Gray/Alamy Live News Selkirk, War Memorial, UK. The evocative 6ft silhouette of a British soldier was purchased from the national There But Not There campaign, thanks to funding from the town's Rotary club, Fleece Bar and Kitchen, the royal burgh's casting associations, the Coulson family and other Souters.
A tribute to the fallen ahead of Remembrance Day on Friday by the Remember Them Fund of a giant poppy, created using pebbles from the beach, painted red and laid at the feet of the 1101 (aka Tommy) statue, a nine-and-a-half foot sculpture of a weary soldier by Ray Lonsdale.Sun rise at the Tommy Statue on the morning of Remembrance Day in Seaham County Durham. A service of remembrance will be held at the statue to remember the fallen soldiers.on Wednesday November 11, 2015, County Durham, England. A service Sun rise at the Tommy Statue on the morning of Remembrance Day in Seaham County Durham.
Sun rise at the Tommy Statue on the morning of Remembrance Day in Seaham County Durham. Members of the Armed Forces community including veterans attended the poignant event which marks the start of the traditional two week Remembrance period. Deputy Lord Lieutenant Mr Phil Green of the City of Glasgow led a special group of wreath-layers at the annual Opening Ceremony of the Glasgow Garden of Remembrance, in George Square. Credit: Findlay/Alamy Live News Glasgow, Scotland, UK. The Psittacosaurus' cloaca most closely resembles that of a modern crocodile, rather than the birds its more closely related to. It's covered in scales with lips on either side of the slit, but instead of converging at the bottom like the crocodile, its lips flare out in the direction of the tail resulting in it being shaped like an inverted "v.Glasgow, Scotland, UK. He discovered that, like baboons, this dinosaur's cloaca was highly pigmented and would have stood out from surrounding areas of skin, which he said likely served as a visual signal to potential mates. Research paper in the journal Current Biology.Jakob Vinther, a paleontologist who had previously worked on uncovering the Psittacosaurus dinosaur's colour patterns, revisited the specimen when he realized how incredibly well preserved its cloaca was and decided to take a closer look.
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Using a dinosaur fossil with exceptional skin preservation, a scientist from the University of Bristol in the UK was able to figure out what a dinosaur's rear end orifice would have looked like.ĭinosaurs, along with most other animals, have only a single rear orifice known as a cloaca to defecate, urinate and copulate.