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Giant fossils challenge 'lilliput effect' in animals after greatest mass extinction
Seattle :: WA :: USA | about 1 month ago
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The team�s results have drastically changed paleontologists� current thinking regarding evolutionary dynamics and the way the biosphere functions in the aftermath of a mass extinction event. The history of life on Earth has been punctuated by numerous...
Tags: mass extinctions, lilliput effect, greatest mass, Seattle, Environment, Triassic, Fossil, Extinction event, Astronomy, Geology, Paleontology, Planetary science, PermianTriassic extinction event, Permian, Nature, Biology
Alligators breathe like birds: Scientists!
Noida :: India | 2 months ago
Credibility Updated on Sunday, January 17, 2010, 23:45 IST Washington: Alligators have a one-way path for breathing that is similar to birds, says a new study, which could explain how dinosaurs' ancestors rose to prominence on Earth after the planet's worst mass...
Tags: alligators breathing, India, Noida, Environment, Origin of birds, Crocodilia, Dinosaurs, Archosaur, Paleozoology, Paleontology, Permian, Pterosaur
Dinosaurs surface at dam
Cape Town :: South Africa | 2 months ago
Credibility A resident of the area discovered the first set of teeth of an ancient animal during the construction work last month. A palaeontologist, Dr Gideon Groenewald, was then appointed as a consultant on the site. About 19 tons of rock was blasted and removed...
Tags: South Africa, Cape Town, Environment, Dinosaur, Eskom, Ingula Pumped Storage Scheme, Paleontology, Permian
How to survive a 'fearful age'?
Chicago :: IL :: USA | 3 months ago
Credibility The other day I attended a preview screening of "The Road," the new film of Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic 2006 novel of the same name. It made for harrowing viewing, imagining a wasteland Earth from which, following an unspecified cataclysm, almost...
Tags: masses extinctions, Earth, extinctions event, Jorg Frobisch, global warming, Kombuisia, fear age, kombuisia antarctica, triassic extinctions, Chicago, Environment, Extinction, Triassic, Evolutionary biology, Permian￢ﾀﾓTriassic extinction event, Extinction events, Impact events, Planetary science, Permian
Extinction rates higher in open-ocean settings during mass wipeouts
Thiruvananthapuram :: India | 4 months ago
Credibility For many years, paleobiological researchers interested in the history of biodiversity have focused on charting the many ups (evolutionary radiations) and downs (mass extinctions) that punctuate the history of life. Because the preserved record of marine...
Tags: mass extinctions, Arnie Miller, extinctions rates, ocean settings, Michael Foote, epicontinental sea, rates higher, India, Thiruvananthapuram, Impact events, Biology, Permian￢ﾀﾓTriassic extinction event, Extinction, Permian, Extinction events, Planetary science, Evolutionary biology, Environment
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