tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3467242881996852098.post3637208170697023873..comments2024-01-08T08:39:39.026-08:00Comments on The Open Source Paleontologist: Restoring that sense of wonderAndyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16171447306687358664noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3467242881996852098.post-91422576578081943512012-03-05T08:04:45.714-08:002012-03-05T08:04:45.714-08:00Mike:
Deng, T., Wang, X., Fortelius,M., Li, Q., W...Mike:<br /><br />Deng, T., Wang, X., Fortelius,M., Li, Q., Wang, Y., Tseng, Z. J., Takeuchi, G. T., Saylor, J. E., Säilä, L. K., and Xie, G. 2011. Out of Tibet: Pliocene woolly rhino suggests high-plateauo origin of Ice Age megaherbivores. Science 333 no. 6047: 1285-1288 (DOI: 10.1126/science.1206594).Ianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13070313059790440078noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3467242881996852098.post-82485071906651791312012-02-23T12:55:17.702-08:002012-02-23T12:55:17.702-08:00Doug, got a ref for that Tibetan hypothesis?Doug, got a ref for that Tibetan hypothesis?Mike Keeseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00147156174467903264noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3467242881996852098.post-37952881149437020322012-02-13T10:54:56.848-08:002012-02-13T10:54:56.848-08:00Dinos are cool, but I'll show the mammals some...Dinos are cool, but I'll show the mammals some love:<br /><br />The possibility that ice age megafauna may have developed in the frigid highlands of Tibet and radiated from there when the climate cooled in the rest of the world.<br /><br />Fossils from the Chilean Andes show that 30 million years ago South America was home to an open grassland ecosystem, a few million years before they showed up elsewhere. <br /><br />And don't forget using isotopes to try and figure out what ancient animals ate!Doughttp://accpaleo.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3467242881996852098.post-55634717967534590392012-02-09T11:59:31.292-08:002012-02-09T11:59:31.292-08:00Great post. Little reminders of how vert paleo is ...Great post. Little reminders of how vert paleo is awesome and how far it has come are always appreciated.<br /><br />It's not exactly new, but my 8-year-old self would be impressed by the more global understanding we have of dinosaur evolution and ecology. Old ideas, like sauropods being phased out as dominant megafaunal herbivores at the end of the Jurassic, turned out to be limited to North American fossils and totally wrong.Benhttp://dinosours.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3467242881996852098.post-22725497603358115732012-02-08T22:57:28.380-08:002012-02-08T22:57:28.380-08:00As a corollary to the second one, I can have my ge...As a corollary to the second one, I can have my genome compared to that of Neandertals and see that ~3.0% of my DNA is of Neandertal origin. How mind-blowing is that?Mike Keeseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00147156174467903264noreply@blogger.com