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Fish Feet: Boneyard #6
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Monday, 1 October 2007. Welcome to Fish Feet, host of the 6. 8226; Visit The Other 95%, where Kevin and Christopher have composed a beautiful melody about Receptaculites. A problematic Palaeozoic fossil. 8226; Chris at the Catalogue of Organisms, debates the true nature of the same organism, the enigmatic Receptaculites. Is it a plant or an animal? 8226; Julia at the Ethical Palaeontologist describes an amazing find: a Psittacosaurus. Dinosaur Nursery from the Cretaceous Yixian Formation in NE China.
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Fish Feet: Why does a platypus lay eggs anyway?
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Monday, 30 April 2007. Why does a platypus lay eggs anyway? Children are taught many ‘rules of thumb’ to help them identify animals, for example: mammals, are furry (or hairy), give birth to live young, make milk and take care of their children. So why does the furry platypus lay eggs? The discovery of this bizarre, egg-laying, duck-billed, web-footed mammal initially baffled naturalists, but now we understand them much better because we know much more about their special place in the tree of evolution.
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Fish Feet: Why does my baby have a tail?
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Monday, 20 August 2007. Why does my baby have a tail? As I’m having a baby my mind has recently been turned to thoughts of the very weird and wonderful world of developmental biology. As a new parents tracks the progress of their child, you can’t help wonder about some of the really bizarre stages it goes through. 8226; By the fourth week a clear tail is seen in the human embryo. It recedes after a few weeks and these tissues form what is commonly known as the tailbone (coccyx). When is he/she due? Respo...
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Fish Feet: What were T. rex’s tiny little arms for anyway?
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Tuesday, 17 April 2007. What were T. rex’s tiny little arms for anyway? American palaeontologist Henry Osborn first described T. rex. But initially expressed doubts that the diminutive arms he found belonged to this enormous animal. After investigating further and finding it to be true, he considered their purpose and advanced the first theory in 1906: that they were used as ‘graspers’ or stabilizers during copulation. To add to the confusion it seems that the muscular of the T. rex. 8217;s two fingers.
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Fish Feet: Scientific Nomenclature: Advice for Early Career Scientists
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Thursday, 20 June 2013. Scientific Nomenclature: Advice for Early Career Scientists. This post is inspired by my good friend and fellow scientist Graeme T. Lloyd. Stage 1: Undergraduate / Masters. You are compelled to choose something unique and memorable so people will recognize your great potential. Having developed a dark sense of humor after several years of grad school, you decide to choose a truely mad scientist name. Stage 3: Post Doctorate. Stage 4: Tenure Track. Woohoo, you are on track! What we...
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Fish Feet: Polar Bears Hunt Belugas
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Thursday, 20 September 2007. Polar Bears Hunt Belugas. Feeling a little uninspired today, I hope you don't mind a repost from March on an amazing topic that few people believe until they see the footage (the most popular source is David Attenborough's Planet Earth). If you find this post interesting I encourage you to also check out Darren Naish’s very cool post on Wolf-Hunting Eagles. More information can be found at Polar Bears International. 18 October 2007 at 14:16. 23 October 2007 at 21:34. Some wee...
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Fish Feet: Fish Feet Word Cloud
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Thursday, 30 December 2010. Fish Feet Word Cloud. Word clouds are a simple visualization tool used to display text. Words that appear more frequently in the source text greater prominence in the cloud. This is a word cloud created for Fish Feet. Word clouds can be easily creating using online tools such as Wordle. Which allows you to make clouds from text or URLs with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Subscribe to Fish Feet. From No...
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Fish Feet: Rainforest collapse: Good for reptiles, bad for amphibians
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Tuesday, 30 November 2010. Rainforest collapse: Good for reptiles, bad for amphibians. A quick blurb about a paper published in Geology this week by myself and colleagues, Michael Benton of the University of Bristol and Howard Falcon-Lang of Royal Holloway, University of London. Changes in climate and environment through slow earth process gives animals time to adjust and thrive in a new environment, shifting balances and even increasing diversity, but the rapid changes in our environment driven by human...
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Fish Feet: This week...
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Thursday, 26 August 2010. We hadn't expected for the publicity on our paper in Biology Letters to be quite so extensive and controversial. And we certainly hadn't intended to be cast opposite to Darwin. On the one hand we have had some unfortunate exaggerations, most notably the Huffington Post which writes Darwin May Have Been WRONG. Seriously does the editor think putting it in all caps makes it true? But on the positive end we have had some more fair minded reporting of the research, a few examples:.
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Fish Feet: I was supposed to go see James Watson talk today ...
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Thursday, 25 October 2007. I was supposed to go see James Watson talk today . And quite frankly I am pretty pissed off that his lectures have been cancelled. James Watson, Nobel Prize winner and cofounder of the structure of DNA told the Times of London that "there is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically." So guess what? Forensic scientists can identify the likely race and sex of a ske...