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Movie Review: Ice Age 3 - Dawn of the Dinosaurs

travelingwithjim wrote 2 months ago: Synopsis: Manny, Sid, Diego, and Ellie are back in this third film in the computer-animated Ice Age … more →

Tags: Movie Review, traveling with jim, Movie, twj, Hollywood, Animated, Comedy, ice age, manny

Rancho La Brea

Meena wrote 11 months ago: The  Rancho La Brea Tar Pits is located  off the Wilshire Boulevard, in the heart of  Los Angeles, C … more →

Tags: Travel, La Brea Tar Pits, la brea, Rancho La Brea, Page Museum Los Angles, Mammoth, Pit 91

City of angels

rideyourpony wrote 1 year ago: A recent excursion to Los Angeles was very welcome after two months of Auckland’s solid rain. … more →

Tags: Travel, vegetarian, Restaurant, Food, wacko, tar pit, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, la luz de jesus

The Evolution of Feliform Saber-Tooth Skull Shape14 comments

Nimravid wrote 1 year ago: Finally back for some discussion of saber-tooth cats, nimravids, and barbourofelids. There are two c … more →

Tags: Evolution, barbourofelid, Cats, convergence, Felid, machairodont, nimravid, saber-tooth cat

Thylacoleo, a Unique Extinct "Super-Predator"2 comments

Nimravid wrote 1 year ago: WHILE MANY NICHES are ever-present in vertebrate-dominated ecosystems, sometimes we find an extinct … more →

Tags: Paleontology, convergence, Evolution, hypercarnivore, Marsupial, Morphology, niche

Pop Science Journalists Cause Mental Anguish2 comments

Nimravid wrote 1 year ago: ABOUT A MONTH ago I reported on a better-resolution metazoan tree of life. This week the article cam … more →

Tags: Phylogenetics, Cladistics, Evolution, evolutionary trees, pop science

Simocyon, a Unique Extinct Carnivore3 comments

Nimravid wrote 1 year ago: THERE ARE certain niches that seem to be filled by one species or another at any time period. In my … more →

Tags: Paleontology, bear dog, convergence, Evolution, Panda, panda's thumb, preadaptation, saber-toothed cat

Big Cats in Britain

Nimravid wrote 1 year ago: ALL SABER-TOOTH and big cat fans should step over to Tetrapod Zoology, where Darren Naish reports on … more →

Tags: Paleontology, big cat

The Diet of Saber-Toothed Cats2 comments

Nimravid wrote 1 year ago: ORIGINALLY PEOPLE thought that the long canines of saber-toothed cats were intended to pierce the th … more →

Tags: Paleontology, Evolution, machairodont

The Face of a Saber-tooth9 comments

Nimravid wrote 1 year ago: I HAD PLANNED on writing about protostomes and deuterostomes today, but Christopher Taylor of Catalo … more →

Tags: Evolution, barbourofelid

Nimravidae: Definitely Not Cats11 comments

Nimravid wrote 1 year ago: SINCE I STARTED this blog I have received an increasing number of hits from search engines. Unsurpri … more →

Tags: Phylogenetics, Evolution, nimravid, Paleontology, Science, sloppy taxonomy

A beautiful nimravid skull! 2 comments

Nimravid wrote 2 years ago: TODAY I WAS poking about at Bone Clones (their slogan is “Only Mother Nature Does it Better … more →

Tags: Paleontology, nimravid, false saber-toothed cat, saber-toothed cat, Hyena, sloppy taxonomy, Bone Clones


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