http://nimravid.wordpress.com/2008/02/26/extinct-mammal-groups/ Hunting down the past one discovery at a time. Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:18:08 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://nimravid.wordpress.com/2008/02/26/extinct-mammal-groups/#comment-386 Equal rights for monotremes! « Nimravid’s Weblog Thu, 08 May 2008 16:21:18 +0000 http://nimravid.wordpress.com/?p=17#comment-386 [...] Of course this discovery has led to more bad reporting, and from reading the news outlet articles it looks like the scientists involved are contributing to some of it! Some of the things they are saying are not wrong, but possibly misleading. I’ll go into that a little bit tomorrow. For now let’s say I keep seeing the word “primitive”, and the New York Times refers to monotremes as “offshoots of the main mammalian lineage”. Well, I personally think the placentals and marsupials are branches off that most noble main mammalian lineage, the sadly extinct multituberculates. [...] [...] Of course this discovery has led to more bad reporting, and from reading the news outlet articles it looks like the scientists involved are contributing to some of it! Some of the things they are saying are not wrong, but possibly misleading. I’ll go into that a little bit tomorrow. For now let’s say I keep seeing the word “primitive”, and the New York Times refers to monotremes as “offshoots of the main mammalian lineage”. Well, I personally think the placentals and marsupials are branches off that most noble main mammalian lineage, the sadly extinct multituberculates. [...]

]]> http://nimravid.wordpress.com/2008/02/26/extinct-mammal-groups/#comment-127 Simocyon, a Unique Extinct Carnivore « Nimravid’s Weblog Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:01:09 +0000 http://nimravid.wordpress.com/?p=17#comment-127 [...] niches that seem to be filled by one species or another at any time period. In my recent post on mammalian evolution, for instance, I mentioned Castorocauda, a Jurassic mammaliform that seems to have fit into the [...] [...] niches that seem to be filled by one species or another at any time period. In my recent post on mammalian evolution, for instance, I mentioned Castorocauda, a Jurassic mammaliform that seems to have fit into the [...]

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