Off-topic: http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2008/02/a_moose_of_a_different_color.php LOL. ... Which is almost certainly the case. The Sahara is only a few...
David Marjanovic
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Mar 1, 2008 11:58 am
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... Well, here's a paper suggesting the Sahara was a barrier as early as the Miocene. Of course, its data point is only a genetic tree of elephant shrews, so...
So... I have Frontpage, and, at long last, I put the Metatheria and Deltatheroida pages into some kind of shape. Then I clicked "publish". I was asked to enter...
David Marjanovic
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Mar 1, 2008 5:58 pm
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... Thanks for the links. We have a Science subscription in the lab, so I'll check it out on Monday. ... They have low-crowned teeth, are built as tall and...
David Marjanovic
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Mar 1, 2008 6:35 pm
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... I think there's been suggestions they used their downward curving tusks both for digging up roots and stripping bark off of trees, which would give them a...
... Yes, except that, to get to a root, they'd have needed to lie down first -- at least. ... Fine....
David Marjanovic
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Mar 1, 2008 7:19 pm
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Yacumama Constrictodon prodigiosus (Amazon Basin) The largest hybodont on earth, the Yacumama are up to 2.2 meters long and weigh 100 kilograms. They are only...
And the young Yacumamas fill the salamander niche with is empty on HE i donīt know if characins are anterior on time to the SA catfishes to take over algal...
... brainfog indeed. I've come down with a bad case of flu, been bedridden for three days. ... Hmm, the latter explanation, especially if the Old World segnos...
... Yep, a fascinating animal that is far too little known. ... At least some of them have a fossil record, though... aren't there K cichlids? ... That said,...
David Marjanovic
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Mar 3, 2008 9:52 pm
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... They are an outgroup to Euhybodonidae, but closer related than they are to the backscratcher. I'm thinking about maybe two more species, but we don't need...
... Nope. Earliest known cichlids are from the Eocene (around 45 MYA). Of course, almost all scientists assume the group actually evolved in the early...
... (sighs) Pulling a covering clade order name out of my ass...hmmmm How about Dulcundaselacha (freshwater shark) or something to that effect. I'm thinking...
Some (hopefully) good news, I should be getting some broad-spectrum antibiotics this week. Now all I need to hope is that the cause of my illness will be...
... Yay! ... Three things. 1. Glucks, to the degree their herbivorous, are more browsers than grazers, with the exception of the nostrich. I'm assuming it's ...
... I'd ... (sighs) Okaaay, hrmph. The amazonian hybodont would either pre-date the oligocene teleost radiation event in NA or be another off-shoot of that...
... spectrum ... my ... Good wishes to thee O Ice Queen (bows) ... sprawl? like furry sausages with platypus legs and lizard feet. ... completely ... bit...
... Sounds good. ... I don't think we use ranked based nomenclature anywhere in Spec as it is - for good reason. Dromaeosauridae from the Cretaceous works ...
... There isn't, unless you make one up. But why bother??? If you want to give a clade a name, just do it! Ranks don't mean anything anyway. We have a tree on...
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