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The Other Expired Marine Monsters

October 30, 2009

There’s been news on the giant marine predators front. Now, don’t get me wrong, they’re still extinct and all (I know, I know). But  . . .
… this week New Scientist’s cover story took a closer look at the four major taxa of marine reptiles, in all their incarnations from the Permian to the Big [...]

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Nice Legs

June 28, 2009

Sometimes evolution moves quickly and groups of organisms change radically over very short spans of geologic time. Think of modern horses, which evolved from dog-sized creatures over the course of the last few tens of millions of years. Or take humans — we only evolved about 150,000 years ago, and if you look at our [...]

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