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K.W. Gobalet, T.A. Wake, and K.L. Hardin. 2005. The Archaeological Record of Native Fishes of the Lower Colorado River; How to Identify their Remains. Western North American Naturalist 65( ... Foundation 66:237-252. T.A. Wake, M.H. Wake, and R.G. Lesure. 1999. First Quaternary Fossil Record for Caecilians from a Mexican Archaeological Site. Quaternary Research 52(1):138-140. T.A. Wake, ...
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Biodiversity Article - What is Biodiversity, No of species, losses, why conserve.
Species have been evolving and dying out ever since the origin of life. One only has to look at the fossil record to appreciate this. However, species are now becoming extinct at a greater rate than at any previous time in geological history, almost entirely as a direct result of human activities. In former geological times, species which became ...
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Harrison Institute - Centre for systematics and biodiversity
Madsen, P. Bates, S.J. O'Brien, and W.J. Murphy. 2005. A molecular phylogeny for bats illuminates biogeography and the fossil record. Science, 307 (5709): 580 - 584. Thong, V.D., S. Bumrungsri, D.L. Harrison, M.J. Pearch, K.M. Helgen and P.J.J. Bates. 2006. New records of Microchiroptera (Rhinolophidae and Kerivoulinae) from Vietnam and Thailand. ...
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Kind Planet Environmental Info - Biodiversity - Part of Our Environmental Forum
In the 5.5 billion years of Earth's existence, there have been five mass extinctions recorded in the fossil record. These episodes all took place during the last 500 million years, when large complex organisms have populated the land and oceans, at intervals of between 20 and 140 million years. The most recent, which occurred about ...
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Evolution, Mass Extinctions, and Mass Speciations
RNA undergoes direct and indirect mutations from ionizing radiation, as well. One indirect effect ... Extinct is Found Growing in Australia. Whether this is a long overlooked phenomena -- a living fossil -- or an example of a extinct species reemerging -- the Lazarus Effect -- is not clear at ...
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Reviews published in Global biodiversity by the Canadian Museum of Nature
G. Norris, W.A.S. Sarjeant, D.I. Wharton, G.L. Williams. Classification of living and fossil dinoflagellates (D.M. Jarzen), 4(1): 43. Fenton, M.B. Bats (C.G. van Zyll de Jong ... options (Larry Speers), 8(2): 34. Haynes, G. Mammoths, mastodonts, and elephants: biology, behavior, and the fossil record (C.R. Harington), 4(3): 40. Henley, T. Rediscovery. Ancient pathways - new directions. A guidebook to ...
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Rare Spinosaurus bones at Canadian Museum of Nature.
German palaeontologist Ernst Stromer in Egypt during the early part of that century. In contrast, the fossil record for T. rex is much more complete, with a number of skeletons mounted and on display ... fishes in the shallow lagoonal waters that covered parts of North Africa at that time. Nature's fossil collection includes bones of a 3-metre-long coelacanth and a large gar-like fish that were ...
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Water: The Hub of Life
Oxygen appears _______ 2,000,000,000 ______________________________________________________________ 208 days 03 June Unicellular forms predominant; algal mats in fossil record 2,700,000,000 ______________________________________________________________ 281 days 22 March Unicellular forms predominant; first eukaryotes (anaerobic forms without mitochondria) 3,000, ...
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The Pelagic Shark Research Foundation - Biology
As it is presently understood, sharks (and rays) go back through the fossil record some 400 million years. As far as the fossil record shows, selachian sharks represent the Earth's first fully jawed vertebrates. Taxonomists and others enlessly debate the particulars. Sharks have survived at least four global mass extinctions that knocked 80% of the planets mega-- ...
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The Pelagic Shark Research Foundation - In the News
Today, they are mostly catching thornback rays, a primeval-looking animal that is straight out of the fossil record. The muddy brown thornback looks like a hybrid of a shark and ray, with three rows of sharp little spikes that run from ...
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