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...evolving but still. Reality is explained as rational most of the time. This is not the case in field of modern physics that seem to wonder in the land of casualness at least to a degree. I've read...
...t and reaching sexual maturity at a very young age means that the defense by numbers were not invented by modern animals. Each creature is most vulnerable when it is a young cub if the growth proces...
...o CT-scan the fossils is a nice new addition, but in fact there are lots of things that an eye trained in modern systematics will see that someone many years ago may have missed. Of course, in science...
...der," settles a long and hot debate over the origin of frogs and salamanders. The fossil that links modern frogs and salamanders proves the previously disputed fact some modern amphibians, frogs...
... degree independent of the first and uses a different set of signals. Wolpert et al. have noticed this in modern embryos: Go here for the full explanation. It is an interesting one. ...
...s how a branch of reptiles gradually acquired both the unique anatomy and flying adaptations found in all modern birds. It is a transitional fossil in that it shows both reptile ancestry and bird spec...
...ime alive now? Or is there some monster from the past? I know that pythons and their relatives are pretty modern snakes, so it would not surprise me to learn that there have never been bigger snakes t...
...erium,(and other incidental meat eaters) though it seems to have scavenged dead Glyptodonts now and then. Modern hippopotami eat meat sometimes too....
...s' cannot cross is a biologic principle that has never been successfully challenged. Even with the aid of modern laboratory techniques and manipulation, no new 'kinds' have been formed. From the ear...
Misdirection noted. next you are going to say we need to find a modern dinosaur to falsify creation ;-) Manpanzee Casper the friendly ghost? Ah yes the wolly wonderful non-peered-reviewed faqs.
... important in their analysis are the upper canine and lower third premolar that turned up. All fossil and modern apes, particularly males, have large, tusklike canines that are continually honed again...
...t many researchers believe the capacity for true symbolic thinking arose much later with the emergence of modern humans, Homo sapiens . The 8cm-long bone was unearthed at the Kozarnika cave in north...
...al Science, counters the idea proposed by some scientists that Cro-Magnon, who were physically similar to modern man, supplanted Neanderthals because they were more skilled hunters as a result of some...
...ke us' By Paul Rincon Neanderthals were shedding their sturdy physique and evolving in the direction of modern humans just before they disappeared from the fossil record. Newly-identified remains fr...
...a. We have begun investigating the roles of these passageways in bidirectional migrations of anatomically modern humans, by analyzing 45 informative biallelic markers as well as 10 microsatellite loci...
...re-humans would then invade Africa and thence the rest of the world. (3) And the third major mistake of modern Anthropology is that they refuse to recognize that Stone-throwing or Rock-throwing woul...
Not acording to some who have reply to the thread. When does a form cease to be modern? can the the two interbreed? that is my point.... Science is claiming that these faulty remants are 100% accu
Neanderthals 'not close family' By Paul Rincon The Neanderthals were not close relatives of modern humans and represent a single species quite distinct from our own, scientists say. 3D comparisons o
...I felt that the best definition of Aves was that which refers to the common ancestor of Archaeopteryx and modern birds, and all of its descendents. However, perfectly good birds, which predate this sp...
...similar to what you find in flies today. The wings and legs and head, and even the cells inside, are very modern-looking.' And a report in The Globe and Mail of Toronto commented: 'In 40 million years...
...ings.' But innumerable fossils are found in ancient strata that, like the lungfish, are identifiable with modern species. Imprints of leaves of oak, walnut, hickory, grape, magnolia, palm, and many ot...
... in fossil hominins. Now, you define meat-eating dental traits as any dental trait which is shared by all modern humans to the exclusion of all modern apes. Thus any human traits of a fossil hominin a...
I do not see early hominids able to domesticate a cat due to its nomadic and traveling lifestyle, however a dog domestication would fit nicely with the lifestyle of early hominids. What is the oldes
...he means and method of determining whether they are humanlike is whether the humerus has more crests than modern day apes in conjunction with the degree of grooves in the femur for bipedalism. Befor...
...nes? Hopefully it does? And is the Medial Epicondyle of Oreopithecus or Orrorin highly more advanced than modern day chimpanzee? And, if no elbow bones of Oreopithecus or Orrorin were found as of ye...
...It weighed more than 50 tonnes - eight times heavier than tyrannosaurus rex - and hunted the ancestors of modern sharks and aquatic reptiles such as ichthyosaurs. It would have been capable of killing...
...r connections with the later hominid lineages of Africa. You're making gross oversimplifications. Put a modern fish, even a lungfish, on land and watch it behave - look, no legs. Nor in its descenda...
...ocomotion, the hindlimbs of these earliest known snakes must have been functional for some other purpose. Modern pythons use their vestigial hindlimbs during mating. Undoubtedly, the hindlimbs in Haas...
... the Pleistocene period was like in Australia from 1.8 million to 10,000 years ago. They also tell us how modern faunas evolved from some of the most specialised creatures on earth.' Thylacoleo grew...
Dear All, Part of the problem with bird origins is that Archaeopteryx and modern birds may have descended from different groups of 'dinosaurs'. It may sound preposterous to suggest that Archaeopteryx
...y with feathers on its back only! If avian feathers indeed evolved this way, it can certainly explain why modern feathers are invariably arranged in rows, since this would simply be a feature inherite...
The statistics comparing one Neanderthal mitochondrial DNA sample with 1600 plus samples from modern humans fails to exclude this family member. It is two ticks within the range of variations within t
... that many people realized stonethrowing was important, but they fail to realize its true importance: ' Modern evolutionists concentrate on what they can see and measure. This is good, but only up t...
...e been wondering about the biomechanics involved. Without an allula, could Archy even land on a branch as modern birds do? Or would he have to hit the ground running? Also, could archy's foot be expla...
... (That's right, Little Sally! This here giant beaver needed 7 inch gnawing teeth and expanded versions of modern beaver molars in order to eat cattails! GMAFB!) Eric G. Taylor...
...y may have reared up on their hind legs to crop leaves and browse tall trees when they roamed what is now modern-day Patagonia some 80 million years ago. Coria, paleontologist Luis Chiappe of Los An...
...ro-evolutionary 'leap' is. The one evident 'gap' in the sequence is between a fully-aquatic but otherwise modern scorpion and a Eurypterid that is still so close to being a scorpion itself as to be pe...
Where did modern birds (Neornithes) come from? When did the modern groups arise? Joel Cracraft presents an impressive array of evidence that _all_ the modern groups survived the K/T extinction in the
...ne it closely. It showns a very forward jutting face and, most strangely, significant brow ridges. Many modern skulls show no brow ridges. These are quite primitive in appearance. I have been told t...
The modern ginkgo tree, _Ginkgo biloba_, is interesting in all sorts of ways. It sits alone in its own phylum, last surivivor of a Paleozoic group that once included hundreds if not thousands of speci
...stems like eyes, gills, circulatory system, and advanced physiological structures no different from their modern counterparts. For instance, the double-lensed, combed eye structure of trilobites is a ...
...ertain extent. However, the fragile construction of the skull of snakes tends to refute this theory. If a modern snake tried to borrow[sic] and find its food underground, its skull would probably brea...
...pantherines split from the felids and developed the non-ossified epihyal. Even the most pantherine of the modern felid cats - the puma - cannot roar. How likely is it that the machairodonts also evolv...
...vironments is known for crocodiles and alligators, which nest among aquatic or floating vegetation. These modern analogues occur in periaquatic species. Terrestrial species do not nest in drowned habi...
...illions of years earlier than previously thought, according to scientists who studied the genetics of the modern-day descendants of these terrestrial pioneers. RESEARCHERS AT Pennsylvania State Univer...
...e other birds matches the turkey 100%. Does that mean that Triceratops is closer to the turkey than other modern birds are? That of course is hardly possible. Besides, even the most dogmatic bird-dino...
...ep seeing a few certain words I haven't encountered before... •Simplesiomorphic •New synthesis or modern synthesis •Frame shift What do these mean? Also, so I don't have to ask in the fu...
...e the only division I know of between them. I think that's how they determined the difference between the modern lungfish that are fish and those that are amphibean, isn't it? Would this creature stil...
... structures which indicate the animals used their beaks to sieve food from aqueous environments much like modern flamingos instead of using them to capture prey....
...son for asking this question is that the relative constancy of the wing/pterothorax length in ancient vs. modern mayflies has been used to assert that the ancient atomosphere had about the same densit...
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