are modern birds more related to archaeopteryx or to the first reptiles?
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...
Normally modern bones are white, but in FL we're blessed with modern bones and tannins in the water as well as in state, especially over by Clewiston, being a mineral rich ground. We've found ...
That looks similar to a modern day nautilus. 8)
I thought that the root and enamel would have been white like their modern day relatives... :?
Nautiloids are not squids. They are related to the modern-day nautilus. They had a hard shell. Google for pictures and you will see it looks just like one.
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...
I'm with dazza on this one I wouldn't want to run into their modern day relatives or get my feet wet :lol:
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 ...
...I know what you are saying but am I right in saying that,you can quote me wrong,Paleontologists today use modern animal behavior as comparisons to what dinosaur behavior may have been like.
You are, ...
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...
... the family of ostrich like dinosaurs) were tightly packed together in the foot LIKE those in the feet of modern bones...
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...
... 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...
...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. ...
...to revert it from feathers back to scales, and ricky, the meg is supposedly the same kind of color as the modern great white....
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.
Do you know if there were ever any flying reptiles that roamed the seas like modern seagulls?
...erium,(and other incidental meat eaters) though it seems to have scavenged dead Glyptodonts now and then. Modern hippopotami eat meat sometimes too....
...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...
...ything TOO exotic lived in the seas of the Pleistocene epoch of the Quaternary....just Larger versions of modern species. Wierd enough for you, ...
One possibility which I`m sure they are considering is that the snake was after the eggs. Modern egg snakes can break thier jaws open almost 180 degrees to allow the egg to get past it. Other snakes s...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...as intelligent compared to most dinosaurs but (correct me if i'm wrong) was only about as smart as a modern day chicken: :...
...inchmeg.html ....THE RECOGNIZED NATURAL LENGTH WORLD RECORD MEGALODON TOOTH combined for sale with a HUGE MODERN GREAT WHITE SHARK JAW WITH 2 3/8 inch TEETH. This listing is something that only one co...
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