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Jan 4 2018, 07:28 PM
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Also bear in mind the ecological pressures that dictated the form and size of the eagle. Haast's eagle hunted in a similar manner to how other eagles hunt, and so required very strong and powerful wing and leg muscles to give it enough power to fly fast, manoeuvre rapidly, and bring down very large prey items with its talons. This musculature would weigh it down more, and while perhaps the bird could have weighed as much as other giant birds, the eagle could not afford to reach the same linear dimensions, especially considering it had pretty short wings relative to its body size for an eagle.
Haast's eagle was a compromise of both size and power, and other giant birds like the teratorns and pelagornithids had to sacrifice their overall body strength, particularly so in the legs, for them to reach the sizes they did. Neither teratorns or pelagornithids had particularly powerful legs, teratorns could at least walk quite comfortably on theirs but they had none of the same strength and power built into them as the eagle's legs. It's speculated that the largest teratorns in South America could only get so big due to the winds being blown in from the sea before the Andes got in the way to lift them off the ground, compared to the eagle which would be capable of launching itself into the air from a standing start with a good jump. I can't imagine a bog-standard eagle could reach the same wingspans as giant teratorns and pelagornithids without changing the way they're built, and how they behave, and they wouldn't just be a scaled up eagle in the manner of Haast's eagle.
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Jan 4 2018, 08:47 PM
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Could chitons evolve camera eyes with an aragonite crystal lens??
Also I still don't get shipworms, how does it eat the wood shavings if there is a shell (the rasping thing) in the way? Sorry I haven't slept for 24 hours and this might be a really stupid question
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Are the Indian and African Plates being subducted under the Eurasian Plate?
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Jan 5 2018, 11:21 AM
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Did all of the small long tailed pterosaurs (forgot their name) die out before the end of the cretaceous?
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Jan 5 2018, 11:47 AM
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The only non-pterodactyloid pterosaurs ("rhamphorhynchoids") with a record extending into the Cretaceous at all are the anurognathids, and they stil have short tails, whether that be a shared trait with pterodactyloids or evolved convergently. In any case, none of traditional long-tailed pterosaurs are known from the Cretaceous, let alone the very end of it.
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The only non-pterodactyloid pterosaurs ("rhamphorhynchoids") with a record extending into the Cretaceous at all are the anurognathids, and they stil have short tails, whether that be a shared trait with pterodactyloids or evolved convergently. In any case, none of traditional long-tailed pterosaurs are known from the Cretaceous, let alone the very end of it. Yeah, non pterodactyloid would be a better term. Thanks.
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It would be appreciated if you avoid making unhelpful fragment posts like this. I don't want to get picked on as usual ,like today,but that question have been answered a quadrilion times.About indian plate,it's still ramming into Asia.African plate,by popular belief,is believed that this plate is going lately to combine with europe,which we can't be sure.
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It would be appreciated if you avoid making unhelpful fragment posts like this.
I don't want to get picked on as usual ,like today,but that question have been answered a quadrilion times.About indian plate,it's still ramming into Asia.African plate,by popular belief,is believed that this plate is going lately to combine with europe,which we can't be sure. Doesn't matter if the question has been answered before, a two word answer like that isn't helpful.
Anyone know where I can read more about the fauna/climate of the Eemian interglacial? It's such a fascinating period
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I don't see how that question has been answered many times, it's not really that a lot of people ask the same, and in any case, it does not cost much to share the most common or most accurate answer, or if you feel it's annoying to answer, just do not answer it in the first place.
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by popular belief,is believed that this plate is going lately to combine with europe,which we can't be sure.
The plates are not combining, the African plate is diving under the Eurasian plate by subduction.
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More like europe is driving under africa,not africa under europe.
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Err... no. Subduction doesn't work both ways.
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So this was made in 2011 but I found an article discussing the subduction zone between the African and Eurasian plates. It seems the former was going under the latter but apparently due to differences in tectonic mass and thickness there is a switch going on. So I guess it looks like Eurasia is going under Africa now
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Actually, that's an interesting idea: What if you had two c-shaped plates that hit each other at the points of the c, so that each was both subducting and being subducted under the other? (And yes, this isn't all that relevant to the specific Africa-Eurasia collision.)
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About Me I will often say things that are irrelevant, jar the ongoing discussion, seem rude, or are just plain wrong. I'm not good at integrating into communities. I don't do well in many text-based situations due to the speed and the fact that I like to quintuple check what I write. I like to quintuple check everything and often refrain from saying things due to worry. I like eating lemons whole (except the peel).
Obligatory Quotes Wait so it won't just vaporize the atmosphere? -Zorcuspine
Geese are crustaceans -Tet
They get rid of their children by exploding their eyes. -Inceptis
THE CORGODILE -Mr. Sir
Dentists use their Secret Tooth Powers to obtain forbidden knowledge and blackmail the world governments. -Mr Mysterio
THE OPABINIA HAVE ESCAPED AND ARE SCOOPING PEOPLES EYES OUT! -ÐK
I've said it before and I'll say it again: We're in the middle of a vast maelstrom of interstellar warfare, unaware of the currents of destruction around us. What we pick up are short emergency bursts. Something out there is plunging our galaxy into chaos and all we can do is listen to the scraps we can detect, oblivious to the carnage that is threatening to consume all life in our universe.
I choose to believe. -Flisch
Spec Dreidel 2D World Project Project concepts Hermes: Planet with 3:2 spin-orbit resonance. Tumble: Planet with 90º axial tilt. Horseshoe: Planet in horseshoe orbit around a binary star. Lagrange: Planet in Lagrange point of a binary star. Not Tatooine: Planet in orbit around a red dwarf in orbit around a sun-like star, tidally locked to the dwarf. Plant Planet: Earth without animals, and the various ways plants and fungi evolve without pressure from them. Bigworld: An infinite expanse of nutrient-filled air, without gravity. Life expands out from a single point, devouring everything. 2D World: A 2D world with realistic inverse distance forces. What.: Life in a pulsar planet, and how it deals with the absolute hideousness of the environment. Horizons: Life and physics in an extremely hyperbolic universe. Inspired by Greg Egan's Orthogonal trilogy. Newton: A universe with Newtonian physics. Lamarckia: A world where, somehow, Lamarckism works. Endless: The world is flat, and all the many consequences. Flung: Life in a less hostile version of space. Alternis Vita: Building a 2 dimensional cell from the ground up, and exploring complex regulatory shorthands. Skyless: Water world with no magnetic field and little atmosphere, and how life has managed to make the most of this. Expansion: The evolution of artificial intelligence as it spreads across the Local Group. The World is Flat: Society and evolution on a horosphere
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