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"Expect the unexpected" was what I came to expect in Abu Dhabi, and this applies to tidal flats in particular. There are all sorts of goodies left behind by a receding tide.

And this is none other than a World War II fighter plane which crashed into the sea. Or So I Heard. Debatable nature aside, it still made a great excuse for a bunch of paleontologists to splash out and take photos. The mudflat was immense and Daliesque. The plane was impressive. Good times were had by all.

There are many things rusting in peace in Abu Dhabi. There was also a 1960s car marooned in the middle of a sabkha, apparently having reached a point where it got permanently stuck. Four-wheel-drives: they're good for you.

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Some day in the future, techno-palaeontologists will produce dozens of reconstructions and identify hundreds of "models" or species from machine fossils like this.

"Fossil automobile genera of Eurasia?" :)
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I love this stuff; there's something about the skeletons of our civilization that makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside. I don't know why. They're sort of soft, yellow to orange, and have a low, gentle droning tone about them.
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:lol:

Heh, I once did a faux natural history of characteristic Beirut wildlife, including the tyre plant that grows wild upon the beaches, gasoline-draining woodpeckers, electricity-absorbing land-anglers, and toothy toads disguised as hamburgers.

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Yup. They're poetic, in a way. Either that or they're pollution. :)

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For various biological musings and sundry notions, visit my blog, the quixotically-titled The World We Don't Live In.

Knowledge = Power = Energy = Matter = Mass
---- Terry Pratchett

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