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Richard Carr

@emularge.bsky.social
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MSc in Geology with a focus on Paleontology and Museum Studies from Fort Hays State University. Works on chondrichthyan paleoichthyology and mosasaurs! He/him

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Richard Carr @emularge.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Fun fact: I just quit my job to go on a research trip to Kansas and look at mosasaurs! More to come soon…
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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 24/02/2026
There is a story behind every sign.
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Richard Carr @emularge.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Whoever made the MOR’s Saurornitholetes mount was working on the Stegoceras back in the day as well. Can’t remember the guy’s name.
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Richard Carr @emularge.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Yes.
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Maulido rmi Dwiputra, S.Ds @mightytalos.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Rostropycnodus gayeti Day 3 drawing Extinct Aquatic Creatures as part of Ngabuburit activities during Ramadhan.
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Richard Carr @emularge.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Did RCI make this mount? I saw it under construction in Livingston…
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Olof Moleman @lordtrilobite.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Nothosaurus skull almost done I think. #sciart #paleoart
Work in progress Nothosaurus skull sculpture seen in left lateral view.
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Veeloxxy Bites @the-episiarch.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Tergivelum cinnabarium is species of deep sea acorn worm which is noted for being a big fan of Junjo Ito's Uzumaki #Invertebrate 🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Four photos of the deep sea acorn worm Tergivelum cinnabarinum leaving a distinct, spiral-shaped feeding trail on the sediment.
Photo from: Jones, D. O., Alt, C. H., Priede, I. G., Reid, W. D., Wigham, B. D., Billett, D. S., Gebruk, A. V., Rogacheva, A. & Gooday, A. J. (2013). Deep-sea surface-dwelling enteropneusts from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge: their ecology, distribution and mode of life. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 98, 374-387.
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Richard Dearden @euphanerops.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Check out our new #OpenAccess paper in @commsbio.nature.com redescribing bewhiskered Jurassic shark Bavariscyllium, led by Sebastian Stumpf. Although relationships hard to pin down, its catshark-esque form shows sharks explored varied body shapes from the start. 🦈〰️ www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Flattened fossils in a pale sandstone showing a long, catshark-shaped shark from the Jurassic. Below are grey silhouettes of these body shapes and a palaeoart reconstruction of the shark in life
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Matt Friedman @friedmanlab.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
UMMP is hiring: Administrative Assistant Senior position with primary duties related to administrative support, collections and publications compliance, and museum outreach and communications work. careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...
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Administrative Assistant Sr | U-M Careers
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Benji Paysnoe @benj-art-min.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Uintatherium WIP
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Ben Miller @extinctmonsters.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Some display cases in the old brontosaur hall at AMNH (1956–1990)
Long museum case with complete phytosaur skeleton centered, larger phytosaur skull to the left, and some sort of slab to the right. Chalk drawings above.Long musuem case with Lycaenops and dicynodont skeletons, assorted therapsid skulls on the wallSquare museum case with Allosaurus, Camarasaurus, and other skulls. Header says Jurassic Dinosaurs: The Morrison Fauna.Museum case with partial Diplodocus skeleton. It's a pelvis with some dorsal and caudal verts on either side and one attached femur. A skull on a stand beneath.
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Armin Reindl @arminreindl.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Since it came up in a conversation I ended up googling if the rhinos in the Salzburg Zoo get out in Winter and not only do they, it also makes for some impressive photos Images by Manuel Bukovics
Two white rhinos standing in front of a hut in ankle deep snow. The foreground features a juvenile while an adult stands slightly behind it.A large white rhino standing in a snowy field, one leg raised slightly.A white rhino plowing through the snow, its snout and horn are covered in snow, the head in general is wet and darker than the rest of the body.
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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
look at this kind and friendly face and big silly nose
face of a sea spider, a marine arthropod. its body is very small and it is mostly legs. it has a long proboscis and two tiny brown eyes facing the viewer
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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Platecarpus & Hoploscaphites
Platecarpus is a mosasaur, an extinct marine reptile with four flippers. This one is covered with colorful squares like a quilt, beginning dark teal at its back and fading towards light blue and yellow on the underside. Two Hoploscaphites, ammonite cephalopods, are swimming nearby.
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Matt Friedman @friedmanlab.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Out now: latest addition to the Grande volume! Guang-Hui Xu reevaluates Guizhoubrachysomus from the Middle Triassic of southern China. Interpreted as a "luganoiid" in the past, this work argues Guizhoubrachysomus is instead an early dapediid, a group most famous from Jurassic deposits of Europe.
Three-panel figure of a deep-bodied fossil fish. Upper panel shows complete specimen of articulated fish. Bottom left panel shows a close-up photo of skull. Lower right panel shows interpretive drawing of the skull with labeled bones.Large phylogenetic diagram of actinopterygian fishes, emphasizing neopterygians. Each terminal is associated with a small line drawing depicting the taxon.
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Alberta Claw @albertonykus.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Sensory biology and evidence for nocturnality in the extinct Hawaiian ibis Apteribis: academic.oup.com/icb/advance-... 🪶🧪 (📷 @evolsara.bsky.social et al.)
The skull of an extinct bird with a long, curved bill. Close-ups show features relevant to interpreting its sensory biology.
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Ben Miller @extinctmonsters.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
I was asked yesterday to post a walkthrough of Life Over Time, the shortest-lived and generally weirdest iteration of the Field Museum’s fossil halls. If you visited between 1994 and 2004, this is the version you saw. I’ve got some time, so let’s do this.
A carnival-like exhibit entrance with a dinosaur skull, coelacanth model, and pantodont skeleton in cases under freak show-style banners labeling them as "Mesozoic terror" and "the fish that wouldn't die'
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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. @arctomet.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Growth dynamics, skeletochronology, and histovariability of the theropod dinosaur Berthasaura leopoldinae - Souza - The Anatomical Record - Wiley Online Library anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Growth dynamics, skeletochronology, and histovariability of the theropod dinosaur Berthasaura leopoldinae
Osteohistological sampling on different bones of theropod dinosaur documents discrepant age record, growth, and metabolism. This could result unprecise paleobiological inferences if samplings are bas....
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Richard Carr @emularge.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
That bottom part of the wing is where chicken nuggets come from
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Andrew Christopher Knapp @knapprew.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
New paper! Here we look at shape evolution of the mandible in Pelagiaria, a group of open-ocean fishes that includes tuna and mackerel. We find that shape disparity accumulated rapidly at the origin of the clade at around the K/Pg boundary... academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...
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Adaptive radiation of pelagiarian fishes at the K/Pg boundary led to rapid diversification of mandible morphology
Abstract. Mandibles represent a key evolutionary innovation that has enabled jawed vertebrates to adapt and diversify in response to a range of food source
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Krista Koeller @kristalerista.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Finally have time to upload things to Sketchfab. Here's the dead eel I found at an aquarium store! Thanks to the generosity of the store owner, everyone can see the scary extra jaws these guys have! sketchfab.com/3d-models/sn...
A snowflake eel CT scanned skeleton. it has scary extra jaws behind its skull that look like a bow with teeth.
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Richard Carr @emularge.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Wow, look at how detrimental an effect world wars 1 and 2 had on the progress of taxonomy. Not the type of signal I thought I’d see.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 08/12/2025
Fact-Checking Trump On Affordability theonion.com/fact-checking-trump-on…
Claim: The cost of living is low.

True: The cost of living is much lower than what it will be in a few months.
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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
A large mosasaur finds a meal in a Komoksodon kwutchakuth. Named in honour of the K'ómoks people of BC and the word for shark, kwutchakuth, in the Comox language. The diving birds are Maaqwi cascadensis whose fossils were found on Hornby Island here in BC. Ma'aqwi means "water bird" in Coast Salish.
A digital painting depicting an ancient underwater predator called a mosasaur with a shark in its mouth. The ocean is blue, however red blood is coming out of the shark's mouth. A school of small fish are eating the blood while diving aquatic birds hunt after the fish. Rays of sunshine filter through the water screen right.
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Ben Miller @extinctmonsters.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
We can all relax now, ROM put out some press photos over the weekend! Basically, the space between the Jurassic/hadrosaur hall and the T. rex/Cenozoic hall has been opened up, and now houses the real Zuul fossil plus the cast Gorgosaurus vs Zuul created for a temporary exhibit in 2019.
Stark white museum hall contains an angular white platform. Flat ankylosaur fossil in jacket to the left, dynamically posed casts of ankylosaur and Tyrannosaur to teh right. Mastodon visible between some angled pillars.Better look at the cast Zuul and Gorgosaurus. A projection of an animated green Zuul on the wall behind them.The Zuul fossil, which is a flat armored carapace with a clubbed tail in a jacket. Negs are not visible. Rail in front has a bronze touchable tail club.Wendiceratops cast with Gorgosaurus mounted skeleton behind. Zuul vs Gorgosaurus casts visible on the other side of angled pillars.
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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 08/12/2023
An (ecto)parasitic #Crustmas. This is Dolops (above), which swims around and attaches to fishes (below), but unlike its relative Argulus, which has suckers, it has hooks to hold on. Also, is bizarrely cute! 🧪🦑
Top: Dolops striata (Bouvier, 1899), preserved young (INPA 2277) removed from freshwater stingray Potamotrygon leopoldi (ANSP 197001, 440 mm maximum disk width) collected in rio Xingu ca. 54 km southeast of Altamira, 3°33'10.7"S, 51°51'22.2"W, 10 Mar 2014. Bottom: Dolops discoidalis (Bouvier, 1899), live specimens (INPA 2274) attached to large redtail catfish, Phractocephalus hemiliopterus (ANSP 198243) collected in rio Xingu channel, 3°24'54.3"S, 51°42'42.1"W, 8 Nov 2014. Photos by M. Sabaj. 

https://bioone.org/journals/proceedings-of-the-academy-of-natural-sciences-of-philadelphia/volume-166/issue-1/053.166.0105/Annotated-checklist-of-parasitic-and-decapod-crustaceans-from-the-middle/10.1635/053.166.0105.short
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Cam Clow @camthecowboyman.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I love mammoth (painted this one having zoomies) 🦣
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The Palaeontological Association @thepalass.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
A new mid-sized pareiasaur from the upper Permian Naobaogou Formation of China & implications for the phylogenetic relationships of pareiasaurs onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Photographs of two fossil skulls and an artist's reconstruction of the Permian pareiasaur Yinshanosaurus angustus from North China. The reconstruction focuses on the head of the animal with equisetaleans in the foreground and background. Image created by X.-C. Guo, © IVPP.
Top left, holotype IVPP V33181 (Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences). Bottom left, paratype SXNHM V0010.12 (Shanxi Natural History Museum, Taiyuan). Scale bar at the bottom is 50 mm.
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Justin Waraniak @marathon-rana.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
I have a new paper out in Environmental Biology of Fishes on the effects of parasites on the life history of White Sands Pupfish! The two main findings being: 🧵(1/3) rdcu.be/eptDZ
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Life history trade-offs mediated by digene parasites in the protected White Sands pupfish (Cyprinodon tularosa)
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Tom Astle @tjalamont.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Please enjoy this ridiculously cute butterfly, which was about the size of my pinkie fingernail. It's in the butterfly family called metalmarks (Riodinidae). Males, like these, have reduced front legs and perch using only the rear 4 (females can use all 6). Sarota acantus; Costa Rica 🐙🌿 #insects
A macro photo, front three-quarter view, of a little butterfly perched on a green leaf. The butterfly has pale green eyes with black speckles, legs covered in thick yellow fuzzy hair, and orange wings sprinkled with metallic light blue patches. It is very cute.A macro photo, side view, of a little butterfly perched on a green leaf. The butterfly has pale green eyes with black speckles, legs covered in thick yellow fuzzy hair, and orange wings sprinkled with metallic light blue bands and patches. It is very cute.
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Dr. Sarah Signor @signor-molevol.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Everything is on fire but we have an awesome new lab logo from @nepeteaa.bsky.social who you should definitely have make one for your organization!
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Sophie M. @sophiesaurus98.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Nothing like a visit to the dentist costing more than double what I expected. 😭 Commissions and, if you’re feeling generous, donations would be hugely appreciated right now. Get in touch if you want me to draw some dinosaurs or other creatures for you!
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Support Sophiesaurus
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John P. Friel, Ph.D. @friel.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. @arctomet.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
J.T. Voris et al. 2025 Ontogenetic Changes in Endocranial Anatomy in Gorgosaurus libratus (Theropoda: Tyrannosauridae) Provide Insight Into the Evolution of the Tyrannosauroid Endocranium Journal of Comparative Neurology 533: e70056 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Ontogenetic Changes in Endocranial Anatomy in Gorgosaurus libratus (Theropoda: Tyrannosauridae) Provide Insight Into the Evolution of the Tyrannosauroid Endocranium
Changes through growth (ontogenetic) in the braincase of the eutyrannosaurian tyrannosauroid Gorgosaurus libratus are discussed. Most notably, brain cavity endocasts of immature Gorgosaurus are found....
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John P. Friel, Ph.D. @friel.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Bumping to the Fishes! and Science feeds.🐟🧪
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John P. Friel, Ph.D. @friel.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Cool new study on Deinosuchus just dropped.🐊🧪 www.cnn.com/2025/04/23/s...
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Scientists discover how a ‘terror crocodile’ became a dinosaur-eating giant | CNN
One of the largest crocodilians that ever lived preyed on dinosaurs. New research has found the fearsome Deinosuchus had a key trait that modern alligators lack.
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Emily Troyer @fishfetisher.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
To celebrate Earth Day, here are some CT scans of several fabulous fishes that live on our planet.
CT scan image of Caprichthys gymnura, the rigid boxfish. It is, unsurprisingly, a box-shaped fish. CT scan image of Triodon macropterus, the threetooth pufferfish. CT scan image of Pervagor aspricaudus, the orange tail filefish. It has a long spine on its head.
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Skye McDavid @skyemcdavid.com · 02/04/2025
Bloat and Float
Diorama of a decomposing Dryptosaurus being scavenged by a shark
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Skye McDavid @skyemcdavid.com · 02/04/2025
"gentle giants"? I don't think so. Get smushed, theropod. Acrocanthosaurus vs "Astrodon"
Diorama is a sauropod crushing a theropod, closeup of the foot crushing the neckDiorama is a sauropod crushing a theropod
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Heard Island Government @heardislandgov.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
We take tariffs on our beautiful Heard Island very seriously. We will be consulting all mammals and flightless birds and will make an announcement in the near future detailing our response. #heardisland #tariff #mcdonaldisland #trumptariff
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Ben Miller @extinctmonsters.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Can someone please explain why journalists have stopped pointing out that the executive branch has no constitutional authority to end these programs?
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Florida Museum of Natural History @floridamuseum.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
#SciArt Spotlight 🎨 Florida Pliocene Scientific art helps to illustrate Florida's evolving ecosystems, bringing life to the fossils we display in our exhibits. 🗝️ Check out the art + key and bonus fossils for gomphotheres, early artiodactyls and more: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/exhibits/blo...
a painting of an open landscape with a few large oak trees and a number of animals that resemble elephants, zebras, alligators, huge sloth and birds, and a numbered key to the illustration positioned below it reflecting the list in the post
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Bob Nicholls Art @bobnichollsart.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology... 2022 Korean translation of Locked in Time (by @deanrlomax.bsky.social) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. Here's "The Transient Oasis," showing a colony of #Crinoids drifting on deadwood. #SciArt #PaleoArt #Ichthyosaurs #JurassicWorld
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Richard Carr @emularge.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Also @museumguyscott.bsky.social with an extremely impressive bust of Jane the juvenile T. rex lol
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Richard Carr @emularge.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
New Plioplatecarpus peckensis skeletal mount 🤩🤩🤩 love to see Bearpaw mosasaurs and ESPECIALLY plioplatecarpines getting the limelight. I’m super lucky to have consulted a bit for this and some other upcoming mounts… Stop by the MOR the first week of July for the rest!
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Richard Carr @emularge.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
It’s a long story but as far as I am aware, the part specimen of the holotype is not currently in MT (though it sounds like that should be changing soon!) and totally agree on CM vs CMNH,
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Richard Carr @emularge.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
and still played a huge roll in my thesis, so close enough.
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Ben Miller @extinctmonsters.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
This isn't the first time a branch of government has attempted to control Smithsonian exhibit content. In 1994, a draft script for a National Air and Space Museum exhibit featuring the Enola Gay (the plane that dropped two atomic bombs on Japan) was circulated among interested parties. 🧵
Partial fuselage of a silver plane with landing gear behind a barrier in a museum hall.
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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
how come in Japan you can get cool figures of every weird animal ever for literally ~ 2 USD, why can't we be a proper country and have Shrimp Figures
plastic figure of a fairy shrimp, mostly shades of green with large eyes and an orange tail. included is a black plastic stand for the model and a circular backdrop to mimic a microscope viewplastic figure of Opabinia, a cambrian period stem arthropod with many swimming paddles on each side of its long body. it has five eyes and a trunk or grabbing organ on its front. the model is colored in shades of teal and has a brown "stone" base
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