... I wasn't aware of the latter. A second arctotitan species, or maybe a super-gantua? ... I thought it was only 1,5 tonnes, my sources may be outdated. We...
... Sadly underdeveloped. There is at least one whole clade of forest jackalopes meant exclusively for SE Asia, but not much has been written about it. There...
... The rise of the therizinosaurs has been dated to the Pleistocene in the history section. ... Why would they? Think parrots with fingers, not apes with...
... Well, I certainly won't shed any tears. Brian and Dan twisted my arm to get me to draw that thing - just so that they could steal my design for a ...
... A segnosaur that has, by means of dyslexia, converged on Russian snow. :-) ... Ah. But then we should probably come up with at least suggestions, because ...
David Marjanovic
david.marjanovic@...
Jan 1, 2008 11:26 am
18790
... Well, it was worth a shot =) I didn't know Brian was behind it, but I did know that ornithomimids were killed off to make the world seem different...
... I've gathered as much. What's the ETA on his returning? ... Sounds interesting. I was thinking the Bullroarers would evolve a Koala analogue, as they'll...
... Never heard of bonnacons and I don't see them in the archives ... mammals seem ... takes over ... I don't see colugos as being one mutation away from being...
... This is unfortunately correct. ... What about the biggest kangaroos? ... The size estimates for this beast have shrunk drastically in the last decade. It...
David Marjanovic
david.marjanovic@...
Jan 1, 2008 4:02 pm
18794
... It's not clear how terrestrial the mekosuchines really were. Given their distribution all the way to Fiji -- I forgot if it's known if the Miocene NZ croc...
David Marjanovic
david.marjanovic@...
Jan 1, 2008 4:09 pm
18795
... Either sounds fine to me. Of course, as the climate warms, the east Asian and European habitats are going to fuse eventually into one realm. ... don't...
... We don't even know if the bats really evolved from gliders. ... (We don't actually know that. We couldn't tell from teeth, but we aren't going to find a...
David Marjanovic
david.marjanovic@...
Jan 1, 2008 4:20 pm
18797
... The Basque Country and Freedom? ~:-) ... There aren't supposed to be djads in Australia, but there was at least one multi in the Late Cretaceous of South...
David Marjanovic
david.marjanovic@...
Jan 1, 2008 4:42 pm
18798
... Apparently no larger than 500 kg. ... you ... It's true from what I've read the situation was even worse at the last glacial maximum. Still, that only...
... I dunno. Possibly, but the Cimolesta page is now down on the "new site" ... Yeah, it would be an interesting reason for the sudden evolution of bats at...
... burrow. ... Morrison ... didn't know that. might tall termite mounds return? (even if not 30 meters) and while the Alvies go for the lower parts, what...
... That's the point I forgot to mention: dinosaurs generally (...euclasaurs excepted, IIRC...) are r-strategists that lay lots and lots of eggs into a big...
David Marjanovic
david.marjanovic@...
Jan 1, 2008 11:51 pm
18802
... Oh. I'll rectify that ASAP. ... Well, they evolved into an empty niche. Whether that niche had been occupied before the mass extinction or not doesn't...
David Marjanovic
david.marjanovic@...
Jan 1, 2008 11:53 pm
18803
... australidelphians from ... that in ... Genetic comparison of species between the two worlds? I'd have to research Bandicoot morphology to see if there's...
Whew! I'm off-line for a couple of days and brooooo! anyways.... 1.) r-selection in paraselenodonts. Karl, these are p-glires who live among an _abundance_ of ...
... The birds simply never needed it; they'd only need it if they started sophisticated echolocation, and those niches are occupied by the bats. Also, your...
David Marjanovic
david.marjanovic@...
Jan 2, 2008 11:44 am
18807
... Don't kangaroos have something along these lines, too? ... The placental mode of reproduction requires a major trick with the immune system. Basically,...
David Marjanovic
david.marjanovic@...
Jan 2, 2008 11:56 am
18808
... None less than the Duke said, years ago, that if he got a finished and illustrated page describing the anurognathids, he'd consider it. I won't get around...
David Marjanovic
david.marjanovic@...
Jan 2, 2008 12:04 pm
18809
... Birds had been around since the Jurassic, bats only appeared in the Paleogene, so the niches that required sophisticated echolocation were not occupied by...
... Maras have 1-3 young per litter, though they do only have three month pregnancies, but they also nest communally and stay in the creche up to 4 months....
... AFIAK, no, though their greater size may simply afford them the ability to have larger, more-developed young. Here's an interesting link from google books...
I've been going through the archives, trying to figure out what groups from the web pages are no more. So far I've come up with Certain: Alvies - the bigger...
... month ... Well....yeah.Why would it be otherwise? These are ... indeed. ... per ... Well, my native cotton-tails aren't burrowers either, and they dig out...
Having problems with message search?
Fill out this form to ensure your group is one of the first to be migrated to the new message search system.
