Paleontology
epub |eng | 2020-06-14 | Author:Anthony J. Martin

17 Tracking That Is Otterly Delightful Writing about a place, its environments, and the plants and animals of those environments is challenging enough in itself. Yet to write about that ...
( Category: Fossils June 29,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-07-16 | Author:Bergman, Jerry & Snow, Philip & Sherwin, Frank & Johnson, Fred & Stuart, MaryAnn [Bergman, Jerry]

Furthermore, to evolve a fish from a worm, the worm nervous and vascular systems would need to be flipped over because the major fish organs are upside-down when compared to ...
( Category: Fossils June 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-08-23 | Author:Mark P Witton [Witton, Mark P]

Fig. 7.11 The relationship between extra-oral coverings and tooth size in living and fossil animals. Blue lines shows extent of lip tissues. (A-C) Extinct species typically restored with exposed dentition. ...
( Category: Paleontology May 12,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-05 | Author:John Conway & C.M. Kosemen & Darren Naish [Conway, John]

Ouranosaurus was a large iguanodontian ornithopod that inhabited northern Africa during Early Cretaceous times. Several other distantly related dinosaurs from the same location also have elongated vertebral spines, including the ...
( Category: Paleontology May 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2007-01-30 | Author:William J Broad [Broad, William J]

Still, de Boer felt Hale’s question was fresh and worth exploring. Who knew what they’d find? Maybe a novel mechanism would come to light. He sensed that an answer might ...
( Category: Geology April 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-22 | Author:Roberts, Neil

Southwest Asia Southwest Asia (alternatively known as the Near East) is probably the earliest and arguably the most important of all the global centres of domestication. From the Neolithic farmers ...
( Category: Environmental Science April 2,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Maier, Gerhard;

Parlett and Kershaw arrived at Tendaguru on October 31 as planned. They were toured around the area the next day, and Kershaw began mapping at M12, which had yielded part ...
( Category: Vertebrate April 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-03-14 | Author:Mark P. Witton;

Cretoxyrhina and Pteranodon (Cretaceous) WE TEND TO PORTRAY THE MESOZOIC ERA AS THE TIME OF GREAT sea reptiles—ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, mosasaurs, and so on. While there is little doubt that these ...
( Category: Paleozoology March 30,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2019-11-02 | Author:Thomas H. Rich;Patricia Vickers-Rich;

9.7. Karina Kelly, ABC commentator on Quantum and Catalyst, assisted by Leaellyn Rich arranging for a shot. Photographer Cindy Hann. At Monash University, the two possible fossil fragments found in ...
( Category: Fossils March 30,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Weishampel, David B.

TWENTY-ONE Pachycephalosauria TERESA MARYASKA RALPH E. CHAPMAN DAVID B. WEISHAMPEL Pachycephalosauria, often called dome-headed or thick-headed dinosaurs, is a group of bipedal ornithischians with thickened bones of the skull roof. ...
( Category: Geology March 25,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jamie L. Clark & John D. Speth

Materials and Methods Taxonomic and skeletal element identifications made in this study are based on the reference collection of the Laboratorio di Paleontologia del Quaternario e Archeozoologia of the Museo ...
( Category: Ecology March 25,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Davis, Richard Arnold.;Meyer, David L.;

Stylophorans For many paleontologists, stylophorans surpass even the cyclocystoids as some of the most bizarre fossil echinoderms. For a minority of specialists, stylophorans are considered not even to be echinoderms, ...
( Category: Geology March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-03-20 | Author:Anthony J. Martin

Here we have an instance of that inability to sum up the effects of a continually recurrent cause, which has often retarded the progress of science, as formerly in the ...
( Category: Dinosaurs March 21,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jolyon C. Parish

After dinner it was arranged that we should start in boats at midnight, the tide then serving, for the caves on the south-west side of the island. We eventually got ...
( Category: Ornithology March 19,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Lukas Rieppel

Faking Photographs Much as Doyle’s performance at the Society of American Magicians’ annual dinner confounded audiences by bringing extinct creatures to life on the screen, the text of The Lost ...
( Category: Fossils March 18,2020 )