Well, having seen the American debut of The Future is Wild, I have only this to say: We can do better. Even through the murky smoke cast by the half-baked...
OUTSTANDING! Did we agree on my idea on giving them an ornithichian style ascending process on their jaws to let them process limited food resources more ...
... Wow!!! But. It's always a pity when such beautiful images are incorrect. The hands are too symmetric. In all theropods they look more human, the thumb...
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Jan 2, 2003 5:37 pm
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... process on their jaws to let them process limited food resources more effectively?<< Umm...yes? Would it change the picture, at all? If so, then we'll...
... I'd rather expect bigger claws. Especially on the thumb -- the thumb claw is traditionally the biggest in theropods. ... Ah. ... Hm... it's much more...
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Jan 3, 2003 12:27 am
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... Yes, I hear they're a terrible nuisance in Alaska, since they hang around anywhere where people dump trash---like giant seagulls with claws. In the wild,...
... I wouldn't say this means that they scavenge the same amount in the wild. ... Of course. Because there is hardly anything else to eat for a bear, except ...
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Jan 3, 2003 9:55 pm
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... Really?!?<< Yes. I saw it on TV ('oooh'). I don't remember which species it was, though. Small seals. Dan...
"Tomorrow", I wrote last year. Tomorrow never dies. There is already an *Ichthyoconodon*, a tooth from Morocco with uncertain affinities which _could_...
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Jan 4, 2003 9:53 pm
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... practically colored the same, which must be an adaptation) must have yellow fur. << Of course. :) ... Shall we assume that they survived both in SA and NA,...
... Hm. Opossums have never been outside SA. Neither have xenarthrans, now that *Eurotamandua* has turned out to be _something_ else. Maybe we could have ...
... Yes, recently. Was mentioned on the DML. For example, it doesn't have the namegiving extra joints on the vertebrae. The very useful new placental order ...
David Marjanovic
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Jan 6, 2003 11:24 pm
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... *Eurotamandua* has turned out to be _something_ else. << Oh, I hadn't heard of that. ... trikes in Laurasia that were killed off at the Eocene-Oligocene or...
Finally, got myself connected. Lots of reformating on Spec---check out the Notes page for particulars. I've added a couple of species based upon pictures sent...
Okay! The Notes section will take you to see the Valley Singer, one of Erik's great almost-photos. It will also take you to the slowly congeling remains of ...
... However, given the diverse therian fauna of the Hell Creek Fm, which includes such big beasts as *Didelphodon* and *Cimolestes*, maybe we should assume ...
David Marjanovic
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Jan 8, 2003 8:50 am
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I hope this gets sent along with yesterday's e-mail!!! ... Wow. However, the moliarty pics are not there, and lots of other pics hide behind text now. Having...
David Marjanovic
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Jan 8, 2003 8:50 am
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Original Message by David Marjanovic Wednesday, 8. January 2003 09:43 ... Worked at last. However, I forgot to express my surprise that the docodonts have...
David Marjanovic
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Jan 8, 2003 9:37 am
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Hi Wow, Spec has received good stuff. Specially the new Valley singer pic. Dan: All my pics got a little pixelized? Can't you improve them? As with the...
Joao Boto
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Jan 8, 2003 4:34 pm
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... Damn. ... behind text now.<< I'll work on that problem. ... much, much bigger pics. << Click on the small pictures and you will see the large ones. This ...
Sorry, I must have skipped over this message. You'll have to take up your rhynchoraptor problems with Brian. They're his prerogative, and unless he wants to...
Hi No Dan, no new groups, it's just a simple report with (I hope) new pictures of the Chuanlong and the (Greater and Lesser) Baluong, spec's giant cryptid ...
Joao Boto
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Jan 8, 2003 11:10 pm
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... No Dan, no new groups, it's just a simple report with (I hope) new pictures of the Chuanlong and the (Greater and Lesser) Baluong, spec's giant cryptid ...
I must say that those new pictures are amazing!!! good job! I start to correct my images. I have made some progress with my drawings, and when i look some of...
i like the new format :) ... *shrugs* lots in Arel too - Hyraxes, rodents, reptiles, owls, muttonbirds, penguins, mustelids, etc, etc, etc ... maybe i should...
... And he (Prof. Salvini-Plawen, just for name-dropping, if someone happens to know literature on the phylogeny of Metazoa) didn't have much of an idea, but ...
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Jan 9, 2003 2:00 pm
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I hope this gets sent along with yesterday's many e-mails... ... I don't know of a reconstruction, but I have the pdf of the paper on the newest *Shuvuuia*...