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Afarensis is a 3.5-2.8 million year old hominin from the Kada Hadar member of the Hadar formation in the Middle Awash, Ethiopia. He is approximately 41 inches tall, weighs approximately 60 pounds and has a cranial capacity of a whopping 410 cc (approximately). Afarensis is currently considered to be transitional between apes and humans and displays some traits of both. Since he spends a lot of time on the couch watching monster movies, some observers question whether he is an obligate biped (although no one has observed him climbing a tree). He also has a blog called Transitions:The Evolution of Life His previous blog can be found here.
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Category: Spiders
According to New Scientist a new species of spiders has been discovered that lives in groups and cooperates when hunting: According to Avilés, there are over 39,000 identified spider species. While she has seen just over 20 species cooperate, she...
Posted by afarensis, FCD at 9:58 AM • 7 Comments •
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You naughty, naughty people! Come looking for kinky spider lovin ! Come on admit it, thats why you here! Although I have posted some nasty buggers, it's not that kind of nasty!...
Posted by afarensis, FCD at 6:26 PM • 4 Comments •
Category: Paleontology
Awhile back I mentioned the discovery of a 120-115 million year old orb weaver trapped in amber. National Geographic and New Scientistboth have a story on a spider web trapped in amber. The find dates to about 110 mya....
Posted by afarensis, FCD at 8:46 AM • 1 Comments •
Category: Spiders
Science Daily has an interesting article on spiders trapped in amber. This is a subject I have blogged about previously here. According to the article 671 species of spiders, dating to approximately 30 million years ago, from the Baltic and...
Posted by afarensis, FCD at 7:35 PM • 5 Comments •
Category: Spiders
According to the California Academy of Sciences nine new species of assassin spiders (such as the one pictured above) have been discovered in Madagascar: These tiny arachnids in the Archaeidae family are only about 2 mm (less than 1/8...
Posted by afarensis, FCD at 10:28 PM • 9 Comments •
