Reconstructing Cambrian Food Webs
A walk-through of a recent PLoS paper that models food webs from the remains in the Burgess and Chengjiang Shales.Posted on April 29, 2008 11:50 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Paleontology:
A Link Between Dugongs and Elephants
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...Posted on April 21, 2008 7:00 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Before Predation, the Sex Was Great
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...Posted on March 21, 2008 10:40 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Why Spiders Aren't Insects III: Opportunity in the Wake of Mass Extinction
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...Posted on July 13, 2007 11:15 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Why Spiders Aren't Insects II: A Primer on Cladistics
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...Posted on July 12, 2007 11:05 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Walcott vs. the Cambrian, Dawkins vs. Gould vs. Fortey
A bit of random science history.Posted on June 25, 2007 10:55 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
What Color Was Ailuropoda microta, the Pygmy Giant Panda?
Evolutionary history and bed stories...Posted on June 19, 2007 10:22 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Evolutionary History of the Red Panda
Day three of Red Panda Week: Ancestry.Posted on May 30, 2007 11:24 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Oekologie #5: Looking Back at Ancient Arabic Ecological Writings
A ton of great posts on the latest edition of the traveling ecology and environmental science blog carnival.Posted on May 15, 2007 12:17 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
And You Know What Big Antlers Mean, Megaloceros
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...Posted on March 23, 2007 8:29 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
