- I posted the information that you sent to my other paleontology groups. It is essential that they get the right information. Thanks for telling me about the...
Lehun is an interesting archaeological site of the ancient Near East. It is located in Jordan and was occupied by the Moabites for a while. There are several...
The ancient Phoenicians were famous for making a red-purple dye which they used to color items such as clothing. They obtained the chemical for this dye from...
Tyrian shekels were coins generally made of 92% silver. These coins were widely circulated in the Middle East, especially in Syria, Galilee, Judea, Phoenicia,...
Thoth was one of the major deities of ancient Egyptian mythology. He was associated with mathematics, writing, learning, medicine, and the judgement of the...
Cheops was an Egyptian pharaoh. He ruled 2551-2528 B.C. Cheops was the second king of the 4th Dynasty in the Old Kingdom. He was the son of King Snofu and...
The Great Pyramid originally had a marble casing. During the course of time, the casing was lost through erosion and removal. As a result the pyramid lost 33...
Photographs of fossilized spiders can be found on this web site: www.thenaturalcanvas.com/Spiders Clicking on the photographs will show enlarged images and...
In this posting I will discuss the magic that was practiced in ancient Egypt. A popular amulet used by the Egyptians was a small figure of a frog. It was...
Thylacoleo is often referred to as the "marsupial lion". This creature was a carnivorous mammal that lived in Australia 1,600,000 - 40,000 years ago. That time...
A painting of Mesonyx can be seen on this web site: copyrightexpired.com/earlyimage/prehistoriclifeafterkt/mesonyx01.html Neal Robbins P.S. A drawing can be...
Mesonyx obtusidens was a species of mammals that lived 50-40 million years ago, which was during the Eocene. It was of a family called Mesonychidae. This...
A large scale project pertaining to coal and algae was recently done in China. It involved the study of 56 coals that were examined by transmission electron...
Smilax is a genus of plants; it is in the family called Liliaceae. One of the species is called Smilax ornata. It is from this plant that sarsparilla is...
Smilax is a genus of plants; it is in the family called Liliaceae. One of the species is called Smilax ornata. It is from this plant that sarsparilla is...
This creature was a mammal-like reptile that lived during the Permian period. It was a Therapsid. Moschops was 5 m. (slightly over 15 feet) long and weighed...
Moropus is an interesting anomaly of mammals that lived long ago. It lived during the Miocene period (26-7 million years ago). Fossils of Moropus have been...
The taxonomy of Moropus is: Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Perissodactyla (odd toed ungulates) Suborder: Ancylopoda Family:...
Miacis was a genus of mammals that lived long ago. It first appeared about 54 million years ago, which was at the beginning of the Eocene period (54-38 million...
A drawing of Planetetherium can be seen on this website: www.angellis.net/Web/DFG-mam/Planetetherium.htm Neal Robbins ... Do you Yahoo!? Y! Messenger -...
Planetetherium was primate-like mammal of the Paleocene period (65-54 million years ago). Many fossils of planetetherium have been found in Montana. This...
Ophiderpeton was a genus of amphibians that lived during the Muscovian subperiod (311.7 - 306.5 million years ago) of the Pennsylvanian division (359 - 299...
Struthiocephalus was a reptile with certain mammalian characteristics. It lived during the Capitanian subperiod (265-260 million years ago) of the Permian...
Synapsids were mammal-like reptiles that lived in the Permian period. They were essentially reptilian, but had these points in common with mammals: A single...
In this posting I will discuss some additional types of Synapsids; these are of the order Therapsida. I will talk about the teeth of them, since that is an...
In some ways, Pelycosaurs were different from other Synapsids. The legs of Pelycosaurs were sprawled out. Dimetrodon is a Pelycosaur that I will discuss in...
Undorosaurus was a genus of Ichthyosaurs. Fossils of them have been found in Undora, a region in thecentral part of European Russia. Undorosaurus lived from...
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