... *snip of neat info and speculations* one tiny question comes to mind: would these new catfish be related to the ones already created for Spec? (ref: the...
... Sadly no. but while searching on-line, I ran across Ostariophysi the clade on wikipedia (yeah I know :P ) but so far as I can ascertain. at least four...
... That's it for that clade, but the tropics are almost certainly going to have cichlids and "killifish" as well, as both groups are found on both sides of...
... Absolutely no neotenic frogs. Frogs have the most drastic metamorphosis of all vertebrates, with a strict separation of what happens before, during, and...
David Marjanovic
david.marjanovic@...
May 2, 2008 10:46 am
19754
... Somebody will have to change the part about the larger carnivorous zhelestids resembling trikes, now that the trikes are bobunked :( ... ...
... I am a bit leery with a corresponding lack of actual pre-K fossils but so far this position with regards to those two clades seems to make sense. I'm not...
I've now read the paper on the platypus genome and its News & Views article. Platypus eggs are laid 21 days after fertilization and then hatch only 11 days...
David Marjanovic
david.marjanovic@...
May 10, 2008 9:00 am
19763
... Old news, anything about the milk being used to moisturise the eggs? _That_ would be news! The change in protein composition sounds interesting, though not...
... metamorphosis of ... during, ... frogs in HE ... stage might ... Dave, saying that something "must be the reason" is tantamount to creationism in my honest...
Tim, ... So is pushing for an unlikely result without good explanation and against established facts. ... Look, amphibians are pretty diverse today. They even...
... None taken. ... I dont see any established facts about neotenic frogs being impossible, Paul knows loads about evo and he has neotenic tadpoles. I think...
... Ponder the fact, then, that every small Pacific island had a species of flightless rail (and the big ones had two or more), while the only known flightless...
David Marjanovic
david.marjanovic@...
May 15, 2008 10:11 am
19768
... and a ... has ... stomach ... _this_ ... Okay, I stand 100% corrected. If we can have fishy-frogs with simply a short imago stage, I'll be 100% satisfied,...
... Fine. ... _DOCTOR_ Evil! I haven't studied at Evil Medical School to be called 'Mister' by you!...
David Marjanovic
david.marjanovic@...
May 16, 2008 12:57 am
19770
This is _very_ preliminary work on the SA radiation of the Spelks. Most SA spelks will be btw 10-100 kilos in weight. They _only_ got so speciose because a...
I've placed the Caribs within their own Tribe, *Hallucigenicervini* as a sort of NA boreal/cold temperate counterpart to the OW annelks.... Please don't rain...
... No. A lot can happen in ten million years, especially if those 10 Ma are the Paleocene of HE....
David Marjanovic
david.marjanovic@...
May 18, 2008 11:35 am
19774
This essay, and the one on the caribs, sound great. Except for one thing: the tusks. Paraselenodonts are bunny-toothed. They are sorta kinda p-rodents....
David Marjanovic
david.marjanovic@...
May 18, 2008 11:41 am
19775
... http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0000265/Spec/Paraselenodontia.htm ... I know, I was hoping to derive the tusks of the SA Spelks from the rear pair of upper...
... Strikes me as highly implausible. ... No. Especially not because the first remaining pair of upper premolars is the second-to-last one. ... Yes... though...
David Marjanovic
david.marjanovic@...
May 18, 2008 11:08 pm
19777
Just letting you know that I'm finally coming back to doing spec ideas and some small spec writing stuff again. But since I've contributed so much already, I...
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