Reconstructing Cambrian Food Webs
Category: Ecology
A walk-through of a recent PLoS paper that models food webs from the remains in the Burgess and Chengjiang Shales.
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A Link Between Dugongs and Elephants
Category: Animals
A comparison of carbon/oxygen isotope ratios from the tooth enamel of two early proboscideans, Moeritherium and Barytherium to other animals of the same era (circa 37 mya) revealed to researchers the possibility of a ancient, semi-aquatic animal, linking the speculated...
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Before Predation, the Sex Was Great
Category: Ecology
There's a neat study being published today in Science discussing the reproductive potential of ecological systems 570 mya. The findings are based on the new discovery of a "tube-like" organism (so say the PRs) called Funisia dorothea, which apparently was...
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Why Spiders Aren't Insects III: Opportunity in the Wake of Mass Extinction
Category: Animals
So far we have established that spiders are distinct from insects for two reasons: physiology (mouth parts, body plan, respiratory structures) and more importantly, evolutionary history (or phylogeny, as scientists call it). But where did spider's come from? How did...
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Why Spiders Aren't Insects II: A Primer on Cladistics
Category: Animals
So how is it that spiders are more closely related to horseshoe crabs - marine arthropods that haven't changed much in the past 250 million years - than to a more obvious choice, the insects? The answer to that question...
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Walcott vs. the Cambrian, Dawkins vs. Gould vs. Fortey
Category: Paleontology
A bit of random science history.
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What Color Was Ailuropoda microta, the Pygmy Giant Panda?
Category: Animals
Evolutionary history and bed stories...
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The Evolutionary History of the Red Panda
Category: Animals
Day three of Red Panda Week: Ancestry.
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Oekologie #5: Looking Back at Ancient Arabic Ecological Writings
Category: Carnivals
A ton of great posts on the latest edition of the traveling ecology and environmental science blog carnival.
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And You Know What Big Antlers Mean, Megaloceros
Category: Paleontology
European researchers at several institutions have found evidence that supports another one of Darwin's speculations: A male roe deer's antlers are representative of the individual's attributes, and thus play a central role in sexual selection. Jean-Michel Gaillard comments, "Our results...
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