Natural Science Forum / Biology / Paleontology / June 2006

I am wondering, on Dunkleosteus terrilli: was the bone head shield the
outermost surface, or was there skin (or muscle and skin) over the
bone?  I assume if there were muscles, the attachment points could be
seen.

Gopherwood Range Theory
John Denke, Biologist
University of North Texas
Fall Semester, 1999

The Discovery Channel aired a show about impacts throughout the ages,
offering a new hypothesis about how Chixilub could have caused such a global
result. The claim is that as the impact debris rained down through the
atmosphere it generated sufficient heat to raise the ...

Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 246 (1-2): 41-54 (15 June 2006).
Oxygen isotopes from biogenic apatites suggest widespread endothermy in
Cretaceous dinosaurs
Romain Amiot, Christophe Lécuyer, Eric Buffetaut, Gilles Escarguel,

On Pliocene Paradox
The following points are made by A.V. Fedorov et al (Science 2006 312:1485):
1) The early Pliocene (5 to 3 million years ago) was similar to and also very different from the world of today. The intensity of sunlight incident on Earth, the global geography, and ...

http://members.iinet.net.au/~sejones/PoE/pe13anml.html#nmlsmlslwhltrnstn
4. Land mammal-whale transition
Evolution has a major problem with the land mammal to whale transition. The
creationist zoologist, Douglas Dewar,