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Looks a little like DJ Utah!

The Federal Fish and Wildlife Service announced yesterday that a total of seven South American bird species were placed on the endangered species list. Most of these birds inhabit Forests on Brazil’s Atlantic Coast and were already considered protected under Brazilian Law, but Brazilian protection is considered insufficient. This rufous-vented ground cuckoo looks a little bit like a great, great grandson of DJ Utah and now he’s in danger of extinction too. Other birds that were placed on the list yesterday include, the cherry-throated tanager, the fringe-backed fire-eye and the black-hooded antwren. These dudes all live in one of the most bio-diverse places in the world. Brazil’s Atlantic Forest is twice the size of Texas and an amazing place. Sadly, only about 7% of it remains intact. These little bird friends of ours are struggling with the same problem as the polar bears. They’re losing their habitat. Massive deforestation has destroyed most of this beautiful place. Placing these species on the endangered list will help get money to the region faster and hopefully the Brazilians can regenerate this impressive place. What do you think about this issue? What would be the best way to restore this amazing forest?

-Mio

What does the new year mean to you!?!?

Hey gang! It’s Cave Contest time, this week we’re going to be focusing on another abstract idea, the new year! What does the new year mean to you? It could be about a New Years Resolution you might have, some thoughts on the season, wishes for the new year, WHATEVER! Horns is just looking for creativity here. As long as you can somehow tie it to the new year, anything goes. I think I have a good idea about what I want for the new year and I’m going to make my cave new yearsy early next week, so stop by if you need some inspiration. We’ll give contestants a week to finish decorating, so Horns will be going from cave to cave next Wednesday, January 5th. Good luck to all of our contestants!! Make sure to comment on this blog post if you’d like to participate!

-Mio

Hey gang, you may be aware that we recently started having weekly Blogosaur Meetings on Fridays to discuss Blog related issues and to talk to dinos about how to become a Blogosaur. Well, we are going to continue to do this and have Blogosaur Meetings every Friday. Because of the New Years celebration that is going down on Friday, we are going to have only one Blogosaur meeting this week at a special time.

Where: Jurassic Fort

When: Friday, December 31st – 14:00 WST

Server: Prehistoric

-Mio

Ohhhh Yeaaaaahhh!!

Mic check one, two, one, two. That’s right y’all it’s time for a good old fashioned throw down. I was cruising around the Island the other day and I ran into Pterryosorus and Pterryo was like, “Yo Mio, I challenge you to a battle sucka!” and I was like, “Say whatttttt?” and then Pterryo was like, “Ya!” and I was like “Ya?” and Pterryo was like, “YA!” Anyway, that went on for a while, long story short, we’re going to throw down old school style on the first day of the New Year. Give Pterryo all the credit for the battle idea and also credit for making us this sick logo for the blog! What do you think about it? Maybe we can get our old pal MC Rex to show up and lay it down for us, we’ll just have to see! We’ll be giving out old school CHEESY TROPHIES for those with the sickest lyrics. We’ll be flowing in the illest hangout on the Island, the Lizard Lounge on Webo Ridge, so get your rhymes tight and come on out this Saturday!

Where: Lizard Lounge – Webo Ridge

When: Saturay, January 1st – 12:00 – 14:00 WST

Server: Jurassic

-Mio

Hi-yah! Karate Chop!

Hey gang, it’s the LAST week of 2010! Are you going to miss it?!? We’re going to celebrate 2010 and bring in 2011 with a bang! We’re going to be counting down the clock all the way to 12:00… NOON Webos Standard Time that is! Thats right we’re going to have this party on Friday from 10 -12 WST so that hopefully some of our International friends can join us as well. Guess who else is going to join us?? Well you can probably tell from the picture, but our buddy Pterry is going to be there too! I haven’t heard from any of the Webosaurs recently, I think they’ve been working on some interesting/secretive things (hmmm), especially Pterry. Hopefully he’ll  have more answers as to what’s been happening recently on Webosaurs Island.

But that’s not all Pterry’s got up his sleeve, he’s going to bring around a whole bunch of 2010 items to give away to dinos that can answer his 2010 trivia correctly. So think back on everything that happened and be ready to answer some questions about it! Then at 11:55 WST, Pterry will lead everyone back to the Gushing Geyser to watch the big clock strike 12:00 Noon! Hey, it’s midnight somewhere is Russia, that counts right? Looking forward to seeing you there!

Where: Bluggin’ Beach Bunker – Jungle Beach

When: Friday, December 31st – 10:00 – 12:00 WST

Server: Jurassic

-Mio

BEEFY!

Hey gang, Game of the Week time! This week coming by way of a request from our very own homedog Doggy! That’s right, it’s Patagonian Power Lifting! Treat yourself to a little too much holiday grub? Feeling a little green around the gills? There nothing better for that than a little good, old fashioned exercise. Grab that giant bar and lift it over your head as many times as you can, or at least move two of your fingers as fast as humanly possible, either way, you’re bound to burn a few calories.

As usual our Game of the Week will be cranking out extra coins this week. That’s like going to the gym and getting paid for it, what would be better than that?? Not much that I can think of. So head on over to Hillside Canopy ASAP and get your lift on, we’ll be having Mini Power Lifting Tournaments all week long so don’t miss out on the fun!

-Mio

If you aren’t familiar, we encourage our Protectosaurs to meet up as a group once a week to discuss issues on the island and other items of interest. However, the meetings aren’t closed off to only Pros – they are more like Town Hall style meetings for everyone to discuss island business. Everyone has an equal stake in Webosaurs and we would love to hear what is on your mind. Topics that are on the agenda for this week:

UPCOMING EVENTS AND PARTIES

Where: Dr. Nanosaurus Secret Lab

When: Tuesday, December 28th – 12:00 WST and 16:00 WST

Server: Prehistoric

New Pros: Mucsler

-Mio

Serious Talent!

Hey gang! Well, Christmas weekend has come and gone and we’re pretty much on the other side of the Holiday Season. All that’s left for me is New Years, but there might be some sneaky holidays in between that I don’t know about. How was everyone’s Holiday Weekend? I’d love it if you shared some of your favorite moments here as comments. The best part for me was spending time with my family and some close friends, it’s amazing how the holidays bring everyone together.

I also had a chance to spend some time with some of my close friends on Webosaurs this weekend! We had an amazing (but chilly) Snowball Battle on Friday and yesterday we had a crazy Webosaurs Got Talent Groups Party in the Giant Umbrella. Webosaurs has some SERIOUS talent and I want to take a moment to congratulate our winners:

Third Place: Squirrulboy

Runner up: Irvine

Winner: Randomlol

All of our winners will receive Raptor Trophies in their caves and thanks to everyone who showed up and showed off some of their awesome talents, everyone could have gotten a trophy for their awesome talents, but we had to choose a couple of winners. We’ll be rocking on the Island all week this week and will have some great parties this weekend. Be on the lookout for a new scavenger hunt coming in the next couple of days! See you around the Island!

-Mio

brrr cold snowball!

Happy Holidays Webosaurs! I hope everyone is celebrating the holidays and having a great weekend. Chief, Wally and I were all over the Island yesterday and we even had a great snowball battle at Hillside Canopy. Those snowballs are too cold dudes, I was freezing after getting nailed with a couple of those suckers. Mayhem! We’ll be giving out special holiday presents to everyone that came, so be on the lookout for those. Make sure you’re ready to show up tomorrow with your group and your talent for our Webosaurs Groups Party at Noon WST. We’ll be partying in the Giant Umbrella tomorrow and I’ll be around the Island this afternoon, I can’t wait to see you all soon, have a great day!

-Mio

We bounce back!

Hey gang, another Weekly Dino Fact coming at ya! More exciting news out of China (do they get all the best dino updates or what?), this time it’s about the largest mass extinction in history. 250 million years ago during the transition from the Permian to the Triassic Period there was a MASSIVE extinction event. Basically 75% of all life on earth was wiped out during this one event. Researchers are not sure what happened. There could have been deadly gases that rose up from the sea floor or a massive volcanic event, but whatever happened wiped everything out. That is what is really cool about this new discovery in Yunnan Province, in China, the massive cache of fossils proves how amazingly quickly life bounced back and new species evolved after such a massive wipe-out. After only 10 million years (a really short amount of time if you think about it) life was able to bounce back to pre-extinction levels. From the intense marine predator Saurichthys to all different types of crustaceans, fishes and bivalves, in a relatively short amount of time life was back to normal (almost) on earth. What’s really interesting to think about, is what type of life would take over earth if something were to happen to humans. If we all became extinct with one catastrophic event, we can be pretty sure that something would take our place in about 10 million years! What do you think about the power of evolution? It’s amazing that life can grow out of the smallest things.

-Mio