Just a little while ago,
PhyloPic reached its first 1000 silhouettes! Here's the thousandth, the eusauropod dinosaur
Cetiosaurus oxoniensis, by Michael P. Taylor:
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Several contributors seem to have all been vying for the spot. Around the same time we got some other lovely contributions. Gareth Monger contributed this upside-down butterfly,
Aglais urticae:
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He missed the 1000th spot and got 1002nd. Matt Martyniuk missed it on the opposite side, with this
Lambeosaurus (hadrosaurid dinosaur) at 993rd:
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Emily Willoughby got quite close, too, and intended this rather recognizable angiosperm leaf (
Cannabis sativa) for the 1000th spot. Alas, it's 1007th:
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(As she noted, 420 would have been a good number as well.)
Thanks to everyone who contributed to the first thousand silhouettes! It took two years to get here
— may the next thousand be even faster!
Fantastic, and a well-earned milepost.
ReplyDeleteFeels good -- almost a tenth of those are yours, by the way!
DeleteCan't believe it took me almost two years to actually START contributing.
ReplyDeleteThings really took off after the relaunch at the end of March. It was around 700 then.
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