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Forum Post Avian evolution
Hi, I would like to know - what are the main debates in the argument for the evolution of birds from dinosaurs? What are the main points that generate disagreement? I am asking this as I am doing ...
Forum Post Mammalian Evolution in Annamite Mountains
Interesting article on mammalian evolution in unique environment found in Annamite Mountain range between Vietnam/Laos. Six new large mammals have been found there in last decade.
Forum Post State BOE descides against evolution in Kansas
...belief could become a fact simply by virtue of the number of people who believe (and how strident they are). Evolution is the cornerstone of biology, and genetics is its underpinning. Taking away evol...
Forum Post WATER AND HUMAN EVOLUTION
Symposium 'Water and Human Evolution'. April 30th , Ghent, Belgium Speakers: prof. Tobias, prof. Langdon, Elaine Morgan and others. Information at: http://allserv.rug.ac .be/~mvaneech/Progr...
Forum Post Body Mass in Evolution
This is a popular and persistent myth. Ask any gardner about insect problems with cycads. Our own potted Stangeria (a cycad) has a persistent problem with scale-insects. There *are* gymnosperms which ...
Forum Post The Origin and Evolution of Birds, 2nd edition
Even though I ordered the book, I got impatient and went to the library. Here are some excerpts from the book: P. 378 Illustration of a dissected Varanus salvator tail with hair-like collagen ...
Photo Comment Lyme Regis - The Jurassic Coast
Incredible!! DInosaur evolution of that area. :o :o
Forum Post Meteor impact or prolonged volcanic eruption?
...he earth's turn 66 MYA. Things are rarely as simple as we humans would like them to be. Creation or Evolution, Evolution or Catastrophism, Decan Tramps or an astroid. Jim Klein...
Forum Post chicken egg question
What if the offspring in only slightly differnt? Isnt this the way evolution works? Do you subscribe to the evolution 'theory'? If all 'differnt' offspring didnt survive, you would...
Forum Post any evidence that T-rex may have hopped like a kangaroo?
I disagree. The more massive the body the more it has to deal with gravity. Evolution is continuously aware of gravity. I am not one for any generalisation but I think that in this specific case evolu...
Forum Post Moon nearer the earth during the mesozoic
...n thinking about extinctions, you must think about more than one factor. Just about ANYTHING could alter the evolution of organisms, but there's also no way of knowing what kind of effect it woul...
Forum Post Dinos from space?
...verse is vast and certainly anything is possible. There may be a twin planet to Earth going through the same evolution life on Earth went through, just behind us. Get it? Go there and we see the secre...
Forum Post Did the Size of Dinosaurs Change over Time?
... say! Based on the gaps in the fossil record, it would be very difficult to know what paths an animal's evolution took. However, when more specimens come to light, the more we'll know. ...
Forum Post Paleontology Chapter Removed From Kansas History Textbook
...paleontology from a Kansas history textbook in response to the State Board of Education's vote to leave evolution out of science standards. The story, 'Book on state history altered afte...
Blog Comment Anyklosaurs the forgotten successes
This evolution probably, also, happened to the carnosaurs and the Dromaeosaurs. BTW, the Ankylosaurs are, for some wierd reason, usually overlooked, except for the Ankylosaurus. I'm not sure why, but ...
Forum Post Random scientist inc, How can dinosaurs and birds be closely...
...es and birds are not related in any way, and neither are primates and dinosaurs. You're dealing with an evolution known as "Macroevolution." Basically, there are two types of evolut...
Forum Post Bear question
...s (1989). References cited Hunt, Jr. RM, Ursidea, IN (C.M. Janis, K.M. Scott, and L.J. Jacobs, eds.) Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p 17...
Forum Post dinosaurs still live underwater!
ya see what evolution do to you? dinosaurs only come out in Japan, the locals call her Gojira
Forum Post Would Dinosaurs be able to live in todays environments
...ifferent as well an there would be occurences of variation and speciation. That is how Charles Darwin viewed Evolution. In that time, we wouldn't even have the same species of dinosaur as whe...
Forum Post Living Dinosaurs (re: mountain species)
...y efficiency than the extant crocs (Ruben et al. 1999 Science). So this feature may have arisen early in the evolution of the thecodonts or basal archosaurs. Their similarities are most likely evidenc...
Forum Post Purpose of in human genome Re: Occurrences of complexity before simplicity
In the above conversation about simple and complex organisms to distinguish between the validity of Darwin Evolution theory and Superdeterminism theory. I may have stumbled upon the 'purpose'...
Forum Post Did sea monsters survive
I think that's 'evolution', Kenobi. Creatures adapting to the environment... Or not?
Forum Post Earliest feathers fan controversy
... hooklets most likely evolved after the first feathers (air foils) evolved. We shouldn't expect quantum evolution, unless of course you are a creationist. By your sig, you keep referring to god. ...
Blog Comment A Note on Spinosaurids
... back 145 mya. I also think I mentioned somewhere it seemed to me they "branched" off at some point in their evolution. I feel as though the Spinosauridae is one theropod family that is just enshroude...
Forum Post Whats your favorite Dinosaur?
I know they wern't that smart but after millions of years of evolution they would most likely be more intelligent than us. But still even if whatever killed the dinosaurs didn't happen rapto...
Forum Post onithischia vs saurischia, warning bird-dino question!
...liensis. American Museum Novitates, 3282:1-45. Padian, K. and L. M. Chiappe. 1998a. The origin and early evolution of birds. Biological Reviews 73:1-42. Sereno, P. C. 1999. The evolution of di...
Forum Post How come the Spinosaurids developed such special features?
...ne of the problems with this is that we really do NOT have enough fossil evidence to say for sure what their Evolution was. We barely find enough complete skeletons of single species, so I'm afra...
Forum Post do you think this is possible? http://www.foxnews .com/story/...
do you think this is possible? http://www.foxnews.com/story/0 ,2933,244603,00.html?sPage=fnc.science/evolution a double headed marine reptile??
Forum Post Post K/T birds
I would recommend the excellent book I recently bought entitled : THE ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF BIRDS by Alan Feduccia (1996) Yale University Press Howard
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