Adelaide researchers have made a world breakthrough in treating premature babies at risk of developmental disorders. A six-year study led by Dr Maria Makrides ...
http://www.nal.usda.gov/awic/pubs/MarineMammals/cetaceans_anatomy.htm Aroyan JL 2001 Three-dimensional modeling of hearing in Delphinus delphis Journal of the...
http://scienceblogs.com/notrocketscience/2009/02/single_gene_allows_glowing_bacteria_to_switch_from_fish_to_s.php bacteria give light to fish & squid also note...
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Lees, S., D.B. Hanson, and E.A. Page (1996). Some acoustical properties of the otic bones of a fin whale. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 99(4,...
"The distribution of the crocodiles is restricted to particular parts of the forest where essential factors of water, pH, prey, soil and cover are found." ...
The skull lacks SC fat, the scalp hair somewhat insulates in air, not water. Dolphins have rich myelin neuronal networks and a fatty sonar melon, but not much...
MV primates can open mangrove oysters LO So can a seagull ... No, AFAIK a seagull cannot open mangrove oysters, they can open unattached bivalves by dropping...
Review - Gorilla habitat: fresh & salt water plants, sedges, (maybe the crocs inland lost their saltwater tolerance, avoid salty bais?) Western lowland...
"In 1995 Tobias declared at a large conference "The Savannah Hypothesis is no more" after it emerged in sites in south and east Africa that some early hominids...
Monday, February 2, 2009 Our Earliest African Ancestor by Marcel F. Williams In 2002, Nature magazine announced to the world that French paleontologist, Michel...
Marine Mammal Science 7, 331-368 HYDROSTASIS IN THE SIRENIA: QUANTITATIVE DATA and FUNCTIONAL INTERPRETATIONS DP Domning & V de Buffrénil 1991 Are the heavy...
... Thanks, DD. Molar enamel thickness and dentine horn height in Gigantopithecus blacki AJ Olejniczak cs 2007 AJPA ... Abs.thickness = thickest of any fossil...
... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/7863997.stm ... My thoughts too. But what parallels exist today or recently? Humans don't...
... Yes, that's probably a problem of streamlining: there's no place around the skull for a thick SC fat layer. ... - Are myeline sheaths thermo-insulating? -...
... Thanks a lot, Marcel. (hominin = Homo, ie, without apiths) The earliest hominids (sensu vs.pongids) seem to have lived in S-Europe 12-8 Ma: Dryo-, Ourano-,...
... I guess so, but the whole bone can be rel.thicker or thinner, or the medulla (marrow, cancellous bone) can be rel.narrower or larger. ... Is this so, DD? ...
... around the ... There is no Need for a thick SC fat layer around the skull, since the neural network is internally insulated, I guess. The torso needs a ...
... Myelin is basically a form electrical insulation, not thermal. It significantly increases the speed at which an impulse can travel along a fiber. In terms...
... medulla ... Sorry I should have said 'not specifically the ossicles', according to one of the articles which you linked about cetaceans that claimed faster...
... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/7863997.stm ... hanging-floating? ... I don't know, bonobos group up to 100, do lemurs group...
... air, not ... Incorrect, it insulates both electrically and thermally, just like insulated wire AFAICT. This means the rest of the body can be cool, but the...
Woman back from dead after she survives record low temperatures By Jeremy Laurance, Health Editor Friday, 28 January 2000 A woman has been brought back from...
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