Monday, June 04, 2007

A Case for Fish Feet

One of my favorite blogs is Fish Feet . Rather than have me tell you about why I like this site on evolutionary biology go and read a couple of entries yourself. It may make it to your favorites list.

Fish Feet

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Primitive fish had genetic wiring for limbs

From Reuters:

Primitive fish already may have possessed the genetic wiring needed to grow hands and feet well before the appearance of the first animals with limbs roughly 365 million years ago, scientists said on Wednesday.

Monday, May 21, 2007

Born Today May 22 Oliver Perry Hay

From: Today In Science History

American paleontologist whose catalogs of fossil vertebrates greatly organized existing knowledge and became standard references. From 1912, he conduct his research at the United States National Museum where he assisted in working up and describing the museum's collections in vertebrate paleontology. Hay's primary scientific interest was the study of the Pleistocene vertebrata of North America. He is renowned for his work on skull and brain anatomy. His first major work was his Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America (1902), supplemented by two more volumes (1929-30). Hay also wrote on the evidence of early humans in North America.«

Mastodon and Man

From: Today In Science History

In 1979, the discovery of a Clovis type projectile point found in association with mastodon remains provided the first solid evidence of the coexistence of humans and the American mastodon in Eastern North America*.