Coelacanth; A prehistoric fish once thought to be extinct found living in modern times. The Coelacanth Rescue Mission strives to preserve these remarkable fish from the danger of extinction they now face.
A large, but by no means complete, list of transitional fossils that are known. Use this article to counter the common creationist canard that there are no intermediates in the fossil record.
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The portal for fossil and dinosaur enthusiasts on the web. Featuring news, events, links, articles, and interviews with paleontologists.
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Welcome to the wonderful world of ichthyosaurs! TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Basic knowledge of ichthyosaurs. 3 Features Three strange things about ichthyosaurs. Forefin of ichthyosaurs How the forefin of ichthyosaurs evolved. Eyes of ichthyosaurs Find out about the biggest eyes on earth. Vertebrae of ichthyosaurs Why the hockey-puck shaped vertebrae Size of ichthyosaurs How big were they, ...
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5 Questions Hawkins Images The Plesiosaur Site Home More Research Taxonomy Collections Stratigraphy Distribution Conferences Q & A Links Email me This site is intended to give serious and detailed information on the order plesiosauria, to provide a forum for discussion and for the presentation of ideas no matter how wild and fanciful on the palaeontology, taxonomy, biomechanics, biology and ...
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Site about the fossil mammals known from the Paleocene epoch. Contains an introduction to Paleocene mammals and a list of genera and species with their classification and taxonomy.
M.J. EVERHARTS MARINE REPTILE REFERENCES: MOSASAURS, PLESIOSAURS, TURTLES AND OTHER FAUNA Copyright by Mike Everhart 2001; 2002 Updated 08/07/2002 NEW! ePapers: Scans of older paleontology papers on the Web - For other Cretaceous fossil references, go HERE To look up publications about vertebrate paleontology, go to John Damuth's Bibliography of Fossil Vertebrates. NOTE: I have copies of all ...
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Home Prehistoric Gallery Cloning The Coelacanth The Thylacine Mammals Birds Reptiles Amphibians Fish Resources Welcome to ExtinctAnimal.com Learn about prehistoric and recently extinct species of animals, and some of their stories. Over the months to come, we will be adding more profiles on some of the species listed in our prehistoric, extinct, and endangered sections. In the meantime learn ...
MOSASAURS IN ARKANSAS THE FIRST MOSASAUR CRETACEOUS PERIOD TROPHIC LEVEL LOCATIONS OF MOSASAURS SWIMMING ABILITIES MOSASAURUS FOUND IN GUM SPRINGS, AR CURRENTLY AT ARKANSAS TECH UNIVERSITY PLATECARPUS FOUND NEAR DELIGHT, AR CURRENTLY ON DISPLAY AT SOUTHERN ARKANSAS UNIVERSITY IN WILSON HALL REFERENCES ...
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Reptiles of the Ancient Seas An Ichthyosaur (bottom) makes a lucky escape from the jaws of an eighty-foot-long Liopleurodon. (Copyright Lee Krystek, 2000) Perhaps sea serpents don't exist today, but they certainly did in prehistoric times. While dinosaurs ruled the land, their relatives, the great sea reptiles, ruled the ocean. In 1811 the fossilized skeleton of a monster was found embedded in a ...
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PALEONEUROLOGY: THE STUDY OF BRAIN ENDOCASTS OF EXTINCT VERTEBRATES Relation between Brain Weight and Body Weight of Living Vertebrates Fossil Endocasts reveal similar relationships: Larger & more complexly evolved animals have larger brains Prepared by Harry J. Jerison Department of Psychiatry, Univ.of California, Los Angeles In collaboration with the National Museum of Health and Medicine ...
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Mesozoic mammals Early Mammals The mammals first appeared at the same time as the dinosaurs, in the late Triassic, about 230 million years ago. Their ancestors were the mammal-like reptiles. During the first two thirds of mammalian history, when the dinosaurs ruled the Earth, the mammals were small, nocturnal animals about the size of mice and rats. When the dinosaurs died out 65 million years ...
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Localities of the Carboniferous: Dendrerpeton and Joggins, Nova Scotia In the early part of the Carboniferous, during the Mississippian Period, crustal plates were pulling apart in the northern Appalachian Mountains of eastern North America. This resulted in the formation of several basins separated by highlands. These basins filled with non-marine sediments that include sandstones, siltstones, ...
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Fossil name Fossil group Locality Age Ichthyosaurus sp. Marine_reptiles Kongressfjellet, Svalbard, Norge Triassic Ichthyosaurus sp. Marine_reptiles Roslagenfjellet, Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norge Triassic Ichthyosaurus sp. Marine_reptiles Svalbard, Norway Jurassic Nothosaurus sp. Marine_reptiles Germany Triassic Ophthalmosaurus sp. Marine_reptiles And ya in Vester len, Nordland, Norway Late ...
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Boulder Beach, Mangahouanga Stream (Lower Cretaceous, New Zealand), 13 Jan 1995. Photograph Copyright Joan Wiffen, Used with Permission Mesozoic Marine Monsters of the Mangahouanga ....and elsewhere In New Zealand New Zealands Sea Reptiles From the Time of the Dinosaurs, and Their Fossil Remains Copyright 2000-2002 by Mike Everhart and David Lewis Last updated February 4, 2002 Introduction: ...
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A fossil site of international significance left intact for public viewing. Hundreds of skeletons of prehistoric animals have been found in a volcanic ash bed buried beneath the rolling farmlands of northeastern Nebraska. Some of the best-preserved fossil rhinos, horses, camels, and birds known anywhere have been, and are being, excavated by museum crews working in the Ashfall Fossil Beds in ...
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Pterosaurs in Texas A Quetzalcoatlus had a 50 foot wingspan. (Copyright Lee Krystek 1996) Policeman Arturo Padilla of San Benito, Texas, was driving his police cruiser through the wee hours of the morning in 1976 when something unusual appeared in his headlights. It looked like a big bird. Only a few minutes later fellow officer Homer Galvan reported it too. A black silhouette that glided ...
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Adaptation...Mammoths To Man Packet A INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT THE WOOLLY MAMMOTH The Age of Mammals Small mammals were alive when dinosaurs roamed the earth. No one is quite certain why dinosaurs died out. Some scientists think it could have been a change in the climate. Others have said that there might have been a major disaster, like a comet crashing into the earth. With these large creatures ...
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The Functional Anatomy and Evolution graduate program at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine is a premiere center for the study of many aspects of organismal and evolutionary biology, including morphometrics of the craniofacial complex, biomechanics of vertebrate herbivory, mode and tempo of evolution, locomotor biomechanics, human evolution, and functional morphology of dentitions.
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Fish and Amphibian Galleries Fossil Fish from the Niobrara chalk (Kansas) Fossil Fish of the Green River Formation World's biggest Fossil Shark Jerry MacDonald discovers Permian Trackways Copyright 1999 by Pan Terra Inc., PO Box 556, Hill City, SD, USA 57745. All rights reserved.......Tel or fax 605-574-4760 ...
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In the Field: Canadian Museum of Nature palaeontologist Jaelyn Eberle tracks a story of life and death when digging for fossils of mammals that survived the Great Extinction Event, near Denver, Colorado.
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An Evolutionary Breakthrough: The Discovery of a Fingered Fish By Gabrielle Two fossil-hunting paleontologists named Ted Daeschler and Neil Shubin from North central Pennsylvania discovered a fossil of a fish with fingers in its fins. They found this rock near the Susquehanna River by the side of a road in 1995. This finding could cause the rewriting of textbooks all around the world. Throughout ...
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University of Bristol EARTH SCIENCES Data on basal tetrapod/ amphibian trees List of cladograms tested for their correspondence with stratigraphic data. Cladograms are listed alphabetically. For each group, data are listed in order, as follows: Group name Tree size (number of terminals) SRL, Standard range length, the total time represented by known fossil ranges MIG, Minimum implied gap or ...
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Requires RealPlayer Central Pennsylvania Legacies: Fishing for History Airdate: Thursday, February 24, 2000 By Cindi Deutschman Mammals came out after dinosaurs and this is 140 million years before dinosaurs began. The stage we've gone through includes fish, amphibian and branches off into reptiles. - Doug Rowe Concerned about the possibility of a rockslide on Route 120 in Clinton County, the ...
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SUNY Brockport FOSSIL PREP LAB FAQs Frequently asked questions about the Lab. Current Projects The Brockport Sea Monster. People Meet the folks in our Fossil Prep Lab. Contact Us Send us your questions and comments! Earth Sci Dept. Visit the SUNY Brockport Earth Sciences Dept. Links Try these links for more info on paleontology. Home ...
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Home Browse Search Help Tree Contents Extras Terrestrial vertebrates Stegocephalians: Tetrapods and other digit-bearing vertebrates Michel Laurin * Modified from Carroll (1995), Laurin and Reisz (1997), and Laurin (1998a-c). The position of Whatcheeria follows Lombard and Bolt (1995). The position of the poorly known Devonian taxa (those in which the presence of digits is uncertain: ...
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