... Another name I didn't ever read closely enough to notice the spelling of =) ... essay > yet). I'll be posting a slight revision soonish. ... I wondered if...
... Sounds fine so far. ... So is the mating structure promiscuous or polyandrous? ... This sounds more like serial monogamy. ... months. The whole pride could...
I think we've figured out fairly well the ecological back-story of the two mostly island continents (South America and Australia), I want to take a bit to...
... My main problem is who's going to feed the brooding female/male during the nesting season? The notion of solitary Sabertyrants is quite romantic...but.... ...
... Very broad brush! However, when it comes to the coelurasaurs tyrants, metacanids and pokemurids, Tiina already laid down some foundation on complex social...
... Zimmerman" <Spunkmeyer7654321@...> wrote: Just noticed some typos in myself...shouldn't type extemporaneously. ... I of course mean abelisaurids and...
... The positive of a large clutch is all of the males could theoretically be the father of some of the eggs. Once established, this sort of mating system...
... Well, the draks not only have to be smarter than scalies, but smarter than the other raptors on the planet as well. The Cenozoic is going to be chock full...
... Hmm, it could be a combination of several factors. Perhaps they have more ecological flexibility. Look at platypus and water rats. both have a similar...
... Yes, this seems to be the best bet for now. ... Hm, too unlikely for now. ... True enough, though it may be likely that terrestrial dinosaurs that ground...
... Just a few more thoughts. In a species where the male to female balance is heavily tilted towards the male, the ability to spring back from population...
... crashes ... larger ... as ... the ... perfectly reasonable, wolves, lions, etc. do exactly the same thing when expanding into new territory. ... grow ... ...
I'm hoping I got most of Tiina's phylogeny correct. I decided the lemeks should remain in kentronychinae though with an explaination of the controversial...
... indeed, so do many insects, eusocial mole rats some social australian birds and so on. Even humans can be subjected to this somewhat if resources are...
... Bravo! ... Is this a radiation, and then a winnowing, just for the heck of it? Or is there some climatic backstory to why there is a winnowing then? ...
... I wanted to keep *Neonychus* as an Eocene taxon, but I can re-work things so that the segnosaurs are a rare, bizarre breed in both the Eocene and the...
... The ghost of the Poogod lingers on like a trojan on a computer... you just can't get rid of it without installing Service Pack 3. Now let's just hope I'll...
David Marjanovic
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Sep 9, 2008 11:20 am
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... I wonder if an albino sloth would have green fur, due to all the algae naturally in its fur? Anyway, theoretically I could see any white-haired mammal in a...
... Thanks, it doesn't. Finding them isn't the problem, finding the time to read them all is....
David Marjanovic
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Sep 9, 2008 8:29 pm
20152
... So we now have a definite record of a carcharodontosaurid from the Maastrichtian? Upper Maastrichtian even? ... That might solve a couple of very big...
David Marjanovic
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Sep 15, 2008 10:18 pm
20153
... Are we sure it wasn't reworked from older sediments? Still, if anywhere retained carcharodontosaurids at that point, I'd expect it to be South America, as...
This is mainly for Raymond to revise the ancestry of Spec's ovies, but perhaps David et al will also have comments. My understanding is that Caenagnathidae is...
See here: http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2008/09/phylogenomic_evidence_for_mult.php?utm_source=readerspicks&utm_medium=link They found tinamous inside...