<shit-stirring about epoch naming, blah-blah> Okay, it's easy to see that the epoch names of the cenozoic COULD become somewhat obsolete in such a different...
Yes, it's me again. Give your opinions on the treeguana and sandipede pics on you-know- which site (alright, www.eobasileus.blogspot.com) (and tell me that I...
Brava and kudos on the new pics! They are beautifull! ... Only nes that it can swallow whole with no problem, IE young ones or small species under 30cm in...
... And we're glad to here from you:-) ... The treeguanas are quite interesting,The sandipede scares the hell outta me! ... ok. ... hmmm, um why?I mean the...
I posted this response to some little shit on LJ vouching for the Spinosaurus winning against the Tyrannosaur in JP3, tell me what you think: "If you like the...
... you ... you, ... pop- ... advisor ... a ... larger ... nowhere ... outmanouvered ... would ... Don't get me started on JP3 - I may not have been able to...
... I have to agree, as soon as the T-rex<thumbs nose at Spielberg> bit down on the Spinosaur's neck it was game over. Yes, rants are very,very fun! ...
... Yeh, good point. But seriously, if spino had out-manouvered rex and torn out it's hamstrings or throat, I'd have liked it. But it did that stupid...
... Excuse me... fuck pop culture. If *T. rex* bites your crunchy neck, you're dead anyway. Period. Full stop. End of discussion. Not the slightest need to ...
David Marjanovic
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Sep 12, 2006 8:00 am
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Hello¡ I send a painting of a possible swamp coelacanth, in the niche of HE Dormitator spp. gobies, (indeed based on D. latifrons), forming a worldwide Spec...
Gobies? Coelacanths are top predators. Do you know the size of Latimeria? The beast is 1.5 m long, and it bites. The picture is beautiful, showing (once again)...
David Marjanovic
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Sep 14, 2006 9:42 pm
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... They're beautiful pictures, but you need to give a reason why goby-niches aren't taken by goby-like teleosts, which are better suited for it anyways. When...
In the new APP issue out, there's some interesting work on early mammal limb posture based on lacustrine sedimentary deposits. Basically, the authors state you...
... Um, good question, as the monotreme-man (sorta), I say that such groups could independantly evolve different postures. Bear in mind, the monotreme bones...
... I still haven't read the paper, but I really hope this is not the only argument!!! All specimens of *Microraptor* are preserved sprawled -- because the...
David Marjanovic
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Sep 17, 2006 8:48 am
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... yeah, they don't specify on that, but they do state that modern monotremes aren't derived sprawlers. <runs away, and hides> ... ...
... Certainly not!They compare limb morphology of therians with non therians.However, the illustrations of the two early K therians compared to the eight non...
... Well, sea-lions come close to being analogous to plesiosaurs of some sort, seeing as they mainly bottom feed. There is probably a reason that there haven't...
... Seals do swim with lateral undulations. Of course, though, their "tail fin" is composed of the feet....
David Marjanovic
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Sep 17, 2006 2:24 pm
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... thank you,but some search engines screw it up occasionally,don't ask me why, google alone gives me 4,090 hits for _castorcauda_.I google imaged ...
... bellies ... Respectfully, I don't see how that theory has any implications for Spec. (for one thing, what about critters who keeled over, or were bowled to...
... Well, first off, you gotta read the pdf at Acta Paleontologica.The whole thing is free<yippee!> The authors are also careful to take those kinds of...
... http://app.pan.pl | Current Issue ... They don't, actually. And they can't because not enough specimens are known for statistics. ... Yes, but that's...
David Marjanovic
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Sep 25, 2006 4:52 pm
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... Really?I thought they were referring specifically to their examination of early K and eocene lake deposits. ... agreed. ... I hope so!Seriously, it may be...
Hello... anyone alive here? (Tiina especially...?) I was very busy over the last several weeks, and now I'm ill. I'm reading this year's SVP meeting abstracts,...
David Marjanovic
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Oct 11, 2006 10:58 am
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... over the ... there is... *Deity rises from the southern ocean* Yeh, what? Oh, activity, ooh! ... & Michael ... tooth from ... are probably ... Oh, crap,...
... Yep. ... Fever, stuffed nose, the usual thing that I have every autumn and/or spring. ... Burnout? Burnout can very easily be prevented by sheer refusal,...