By now, everybody's heard of the study done on some chilean chicken bones.DNA analysis and radiocarbon dating shows they're definitely South Pacific in origin...
... Who says they didn't.......... ____________________________________________________________________________________ Fussy? Opinionated? Impossible to...
Originally written off as selkies, the South American selters have recently been given their own subfamily, Notolutrinae, after a careful review of genetic...
... There seems to be fighting in Lebanon again. It's hard to understand what exactly is going on, I am residing in Germany and the german media does it's...
... Yes, but the reporting makes me cringe. "The fossil is that of a small, long-necked, insect-eating reptile that lived 250 million years ago and became...
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Jun 12, 2007 9:19 pm
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... As are mine. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for a deal? Find great prices on flights and...
... Hmm, liking so far...What about the otter-sized selkies of NA and the Old World?I thought the consensus was that they were also to be selters. ... nice. ...
... Selters are strictly a Central/South American group, and I intend on keeping it that way. ... *Imagines being pinned to wall by Ice Queen with icicles* You...
... Ok. ... Hmm good point. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Luggage? GPS? Comic books? Check out fitting...
... KilledThreads@yahoogroups.com, "johannes.hilmes" <johannes.hilmes@...> ... Thank you very much. Always look on the bright side of life, as I always say....
... Yay for the most part, but, as others mentioned before me, crocs and various other Spec jungle predators aren't small potatoes. I assume whatever eats...
Alright, this is probably old news by now, but get a load of this: http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2007/06/its_big_bird_no_its_gigantor ap.php Any...
... AFAIK ... But what kept the - very Phorusrhacid-like - Sophiornithids small, if the large predatory ground bird niche wasn't already occupied? Ziphodont...
... KilledThreads@yahoogroups.com, "johannes.hilmes" ... already big on ... the ... Coooool Looks plausible for Spec a gigantic omnivore, perhaps on SA?...
... South America got grassland in the late Eocene or so. There it makes sense to have a cursorial predator. In a paratropical rainforest like that around ...
David Marjanovic
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Jun 16, 2007 11:14 am
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"... In a paratropical rainforest like that around Messel and Geiseltal (and apparently about half of the world's land area in the middle Eocene...)" Imagine...
http://app.pan.pl/acta52/app52-217.pdf The pediomyids -- or at least their third molars -- have been unraveled. Pick and choose. (Note that this paper uses the...
David Marjanovic
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Jun 16, 2007 2:50 pm
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... Keep that in mind next time you read about how the diversity of life has steadily or even exponentially increased......
David Marjanovic
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Jun 16, 2007 3:20 pm
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I got around to fiddling around with the ol' jewel gecko pic on Photoshop. Colors better now, guv'nor? http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/57715397/ And a...
