Evolution Diary

Your Inner Fish: Teaching Tools

admin — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:46:38 +0000

Neil Shubin and his artist, Kalliopi Monoyios, have made available sets of Powerpoint slides from Your Inner Fish. (...)

New T. Rex Cousin Suggests Dinosaurs Arose in S. America

admin — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:30:36 +0000

The discovery of a dog-size T. rex ancestor may rewrite dinosaur evolutionary history, a new study says. (...)

Prehistoric Pygmy Sea Cow Discovered in Madagascar

admin — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:24:12 +0000

A new species of extinct pygmy sea cow (illustrated above with skull inset) is one of the first fossil mammal species found in Madagascar from the mysterious time period between 80 million years ago and 90,000 years ago, experts say. (...)

PHOTO: Biggest Trilobite Sea Beasts Found … in Swarms

admin — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:20:06 +0000

Swarms of up to a thousand giant trilobites—extinct marine arthropods such as this 35-inch-long (90-centimeter-long) fossil specimen—roamed shallow prehistoric seas, new fossils show. (...)

Venomous Dinosaur Discovered–Shocked Prey Like Snake?

admin — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:15:52 +0000

Jurassic Park was packed with pseudo-science, but one of its fictions may have accidentally anticipated a dinosaur discovery announced today—venomous raptors. (...)

Ancient whale sucked mud for food

admin — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:49:17 +0000

Mammalodon probably lived by sucking small animals up from the seafloor An ancient “dwarf” whale appears to have fed by sucking small animals out of the seafloor mud with its short snout and tongue, experts say. (...)

Creationist Cartoon – How to brush away Evolution evidence

admin — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:07:11 +0000

Japanese researchers film rare baby fish ‘fossil’ (coelacanth)

admin — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:51:41 +0000

Japanese marine researchers said on Tuesday they had found and successfully filmed a young coelacanth — a rare type of fish known as “a living fossil” — in deep water off Indonesia. (...)