Torosaurus was a dinosaur that lived 71-65 million years ago, which was in the Maastrichtian, the last subperiod of the Cretaceous. This dinosaur was a...
Placodonts lived during the Triassic period (250-205 million years ago). These reptilian creatures were semi-aquatic and thus spent time both on land and in...
A piece of artwork depicting a Placodont can be seen on this website: http://www.oceansofkansas.com/placodnt.html Neal Robbins ... Do you Yahoo!? Better first...
A piece of artwork depicting a Monoclonius can be seen on this website: http://www.prehistory.com/monoclonius.htm Artwork of a Torosaurus is on this website: ...
Liaoxiornis delicatus was a bird species that lived in China. Fossilized remains of this small bird have been dated to the Barremian (130-125 m.y.a.), which...
This excerpt is from an article by Steven Wroe. It is titled The Bird From Hell? and was published in Nature Australia, Volume 26, no 7:56 - 63. "With his...
Paramblypterys gelberti was a species of ancient fish. It lived during the Permian period. Fossils of this fish have been found in the Jeckenbach Formation in...
K. Dietze brings up some important points about the Permian fish genus Paramblypterus in an article published in The Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 1999,...
Loons have been on Earth for quite a while. These birds are of the order called Gaviiformes. The earliest fossil species that has been positively identified as...
Asa Clifford Thoreson gives some very important data and insights on the palaeornithology of auks in his book Auks of the World. He states this point at the...
An article was written on Australonycteris in The Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. It was published in 1994 and is 14(3):375-381. The authors are Suzanne...
Australonycteris clarkae was a species of bats that lived in Australia about 54.6 million years ago. That was on the boundary of late Paleocene/early Eocene....
Skara Brae is the name given to a neolithic settlement by the bay of Skaill on the main island of Orkney. That island is near northen Scotland. The village was...
Photographs of Confuciusornis fossils can be seen on this website: http://www.dinosauria.com/gallery/paul/paul.htm Neal Robbins ... Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small...
The topic of this message is the paleontology of civets. One of the main sources for it is Evolution of the Vertebrates, 4th edition. The authors are E.H....
Stenoplesictis was a genus of Civets that lived during the Oligocene period (38-26 million years ago. An article on a recent find of Stenoplesictus fossils in...
Palaeoprionodon was a genus of civets that lived during the Miocene (26-7 million years ago). There is an article by H. Hoelder about Palaeoprionodon in...
In the message on Civet-Hyena transition, I should state that the author is also saying that Palaeoprionodon is also an important genus. Neal Robbins...
The Tell Hassuna people had a neolithic culture in northern Mesopotamia. Their culture flourished about 6000-5250 B.C. We do not know what these people called...
Photographs of Tell Hassuna pottery can be seen on this website: http://www.minervamagazine.com/exclusives/iraq_03.php Neal Robbins P.S. I have some books with...
Tell es-Sawwan is an impressive archaeological site in Iraq. It is located on the Tigris River and is a 118 kilometers from Baghdad. Archaeologists have found...
In the message on Tell es-Sawwan I said that Level V has been dated to the Samarra and the Halaf. Samarra and Halaf pottery were contemporary with each other. ...
Grabous are members of a bird family called Tinamidae. They resemble quails and grouse, but are not closely related to them. In fact, the Tinamidae family is...
Icarosaurus siefkeri was a type of lizard that lived 175-200 million years ago, which was during the Triassic period. Thus this little lizard existed when...
An Icarosaurus fossil photograph can be seen on this website: http://www.baystatereplicas.com/reptiles.htm Neal Robbins ... Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small...
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