#palaeontology

Hunting for Dinosaurs in the Canadian Badlands

I was at the paleontological research centre in Villa de Leyva. as you can see, the saga of that magical place continues. There, once you arrive and pay the entrance fee, there is a guide who interprets

Come join me on my palaeontologist expedition this weekend and follow my journey through my country,.

The second part of a resumed history about prehistoric animals throughout the art.

The first part of a resumed history about prehistoric animals throughout the art.

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Hallo Leute, ich habe es endlich geschafft. Ich konnte das Rätsel um mein Fischfossil beinahe vollständig lüften. Am siebten Januar dieses Jahres fand, wie immer am ersten Mittwoch des Monats, der

A rescent find from the Gobi Desert in Mongolia. Notice how more and more Dino pics are getting feathers these days and looking more and more like later flightless birds. source

Here we have a fossil skeleton of a velociraptor. Of Jurassic park fame protecting a clutch of eggs. source

Two species of papionins which are found in the Awash region only, primarily at 4.4 million year strata in Aramis , that have been classified Kuseracolobus aramisi and Pliopapio alemui (Frost, 2001), are

The horse evolutionary lineage also maps to the counter-clockwise rotation of Danakil[1], descendant from Miocene "forest horses"[2] and filled a niche as a grazer on the "open grasslands"

The coast-line on Danakil as an open grassland led to the speciation of grazing horses, where Eurygnathohippus woldegabrieli , the descendant of Miocene E. feibeli which lived and ate in forests, co-existed

The coast-line on Danakil where both the Australopithecus and Paranthropus genus speciated, would have been different from the surrounding regions in that it was an open landscape, where the field of vision

Scally et al shows that 30% of the gorilla genome exhibits incomplete lineage sorting with the human genome and chimpanzee genome, with 15% of the gorilla genome being closer to human than to chimpanzee,

The Galapagos of the Great Apes Iguanas became otters on the Galapagos, finches took on every single bird niche, birds on New Zealand lost their wings, the Kiwi bird became the equivalent of a pig, a ground

Mitochondrial DNA is inherited separately from nuclear DNA (the chromosomes. ) Fragments of mitochondrial DNA are known to get inserted into nuclear DNA to form NUMTs, i.e. nuclear pseudogenes of the mtDNA.

The gorilla lineage may be a result of the Ethopian plateau forming, from compression of the contintental crust at the Afar tripple junction, which later by extension formed the Afar rift as well as the

Gorillas have plenty of subcutaneous fat, where Zihlman et al report 13% and 16% in two female gorilla from a paper in 2000[1], and total body fat up to 44% (Zihlman and McFarland, 2000). The water-adaptations

Only coastal animals would leave a fossil record in Afar[1, 2], that is, animals living along the coast on south-western Danakil, and whatever lived up in the mountains would be lost (fossils are not as