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What modern day animals are throw backs to the dinosaurs?
What modern day animals are throw backs to the dinosaurs?
are modern birds more related to archaeopteryx or to the fir...
are modern birds more related to archaeopteryx or to the first reptiles?
Did most birds survive the K-T extinction? (was: KT Catastrophe)
I may add that pushing modern bird radiation back to the Early Cretaceous only MOVES the 'problem' (high rates is NOT a problem for me, only for Cooper and Penny) of very high evolutionary r...
how strong do you thin a neanderthal or cromagnon would be
Cro-Magnon man was essentially the same as modern humans. I believe they were on the average slightly larger and more robust than most modern populations, but aside from that, and whatever advantages ...
dogs domesticated long before cats by perhaps millions of years Re: cat gut the best natural str...
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 old...
How smart was the dinosaurs?
Just my $0.02 worth. . . . . . Might be hard to generalize on the IQ of dino's vs any modern animals. To be a 'genius' in that time was maybe a bit less tasking that it is today, an...
Ancient Atmosphere Giant Insects
Aren't you basing this on the assumption that modern dragonflies are 'maxed out' in their ability to have increased size in the present atmosphere and oxygen percentage? Are you sure th...
Warm blooded Ornithischians?
...rus_ and the theropod _Spinosaurus_) from the same time & place have long dorsal spines. Since no modern animals have such structures, I don't think this can be said with any confidence. ...
What is the largest historical snake?
... six foot skeleton was named Dinilysia patagonica, and it shares many anatomical characteristics with the modern boas and pythons, which are usually considered to be the most primitive of the living s...
Does the Charcaradon Megladon Shark still live today
One of two things happened: either they are still out there in the deep or they evolved into modern day sharks and the rest of the megladons died out.
have there ever been prehistoric seagulls?
Do you know if there were ever any flying reptiles that roamed the seas like modern seagulls?
The shark Hybodus - a transition? Just asking . . . . .
...t & the teeth of this creature are often found to be still very sharp! According to darwinism all modern sharks descended from this group known as the hybodonts — that is, until recently. To...
Re dinosaur hearts
...en used to argue the same. The inescapable fact is that dinosaurs have the characteristic growth rings of modern ectothermic reptiles. The fact that the Mesozoic was much warmer than the present clima...
Were there any unusual Ice Age sea creatures?
...ything TOO exotic lived in the seas of the Pleistocene epoch of the Quaternary....just Larger versions of modern species. Wierd enough for you, ...
What was the Biggest Mammalian land predator of all time?
...erium,(and other incidental meat eaters) though it seems to have scavenged dead Glyptodonts now and then. Modern hippopotami eat meat sometimes too....
Raptor Resonating chamber
...a deino-kazoo, and sounded like it came out of a cereal box. It was recently theorized that certain Modern Humans had resonating chambers in their abdomen, but that was shot down once they reali...
9 thousand years and brow ridges
...latively large brow ridges. (I'd rather not get into the multiregional vs. uniregional hypotheses of modern human origins, or the differing ideas about Neandertals. . . nor am I saying that Austr...
Scipionyx samniticus (evidence that birds are not theropods)
...bly complete fossil shows that theropods had a diaphragm like mammals and crocodilians, not air sacs like modern birds. This is yet another nail in the coffin for the birds are theropods hypothesis. S...
Inaccuracy in Jurassic park movies?
...as intelligent compared to most dinosaurs but (correct me if i'm wrong) was only about as smart as a modern day chicken ...
Agriotherium
...l I know is it was an ancient bear with big feet. It looks like it could have walked upright easier than modern bears. I don't think it's an ancestor of mine, I used to have big canines an...
Ratites, Previously Terror Birds
<<They (the shorebirds) then had an explosive evolution producing all modern linages within about 10,000 million year>> ten thousand million years? I'll assume that this is a typo...
Most Primative Extant Bird
I'd go with ratites as being the most primitive group of modern extant birds. This is the same group that includes ostriches and emus.
hi tyler, we find hundreds of sharks teeth, not to mention o...
...were only allowed pretty much within a few blocks radius of the hotel. ...And I didn't even find any modern shark teeth while on the beach. Oh well... I guess it's still shells and spo...
100 Most Important Science Books
...'> How revealing.... '> '> The list only contains _European_ authors. Where would modern science be '> without the contribution of Arab civilization? '> �...
Fossil bones
click click or thump or thud.. its modern. If the water has tannins in it, the bones will change color fossil or not. We found a pair of deer bones in December that way in the Peace River.
gasropods??
A dictionary is a fine idea. Tyler, all gastropods are snails and they can be modern (extant) or fossils (extinct). They can also be a fossil specimen of a species that has continued on... They can...
odd impressions ID help sought
...s. I think she brings up a good thought. I haven't ruled out ancient animals. If she says ancient or modern mollusca or gastropod, then she might know more about that group than I do. Sorry ...
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