First of all, only the existence of the caecilian species is odd by itself. When we think of amphibians, our mind goes to frogs and toads; some may also think of newts and salamanders. But who would suspect the tropical caecilians, resembling a combination between a snake and an earthworm, to be amphibians, sprouted ... |
12 February 2008
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This top comprises animals you may have never heard about. EDGE (Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered) comprises animal species evolutionarily isolated. Most of them are extremely endangered (in fact, even their vulnerability makes the group or the sole species isolated from other lineages) and require rap... |
26 January 2008
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This is a 290 million years old Russian doll, on a pattern shark-amphibian-fish. An extraordinary fossil preserved both the predator's last meal, and also the last meal of the prey, in a period long before the emergence of the dinosaurs, being the oldest snapshot of a vertebrate food chain, described in a new re... |
9 November 2007
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290 million years ago we couldn't speak of 'crime scene', but researchers managed to correlate preserved trackways of that age to two species of reptile-like ancient amphibians. Fossils of Diadectes absitus and Orobates pabsti were recently discovered in the Tambach Formation in central Germany. Close ... |
13 September 2007
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Rapid Reality Studios have just revealed through an official press release, the launch of their first MMO game, Phylon. It's already available for you to buy on the game's new, redesigned official website. Basically, Phylon combines a traditional shooter's gameplay elements with those found in the MMO ... |
20 June 2007
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The ferocious bites of a tiger or crocodile haunt our imagination. But the biting ability is an adaptation to life on land. The question is: when did biting evolve?A new study shows that ancient fish could have evolved in ancient bony fish.Bony fish predominantly catch their prey by suction, easy to see if you watch... |
17 April 2007
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Today's Antarctica is the most inhospitable place on Earth: it detains the records of cold, being covered by the largest ice pack of the planet (that harbors 90 % of the ice on Earth), haunted almost all year round by chilly winds. Moreover, it is also the most isolated continent, located at thousands of kilomet... |
3 April 2007
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We all know chameleons, especially for some of their performances, like the ability of changing color or for their special hunting technique. While the ability of changing color is not so singular in the animal world (many fishes, cephalopods like octopuses and squids, or even other lizards have it), their technique ... |
7 March 2007
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