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| lamna | Jun 15 2018, 04:38 PM Post #751 |
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Madagascar is large enough that it's essentially continental. I mean, it would probably have trouble supporting 80 ton sauropods, but otherwise, life there can get as big as it can anywhere else. I do wonder if birds are limited to the sorts of sizes we expect, less than 500 kg or so, physiologically. Because lots of theropod dinosaurs were much larger. The only argument I can recall hearing is that dinosaurs had long tails for balance, while birds don't. But that doesn't sound very likely to me, as far as I know dinosaur tails had more to do with locomotion than balance. Edited by lamna, Jun 15 2018, 04:41 PM.
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| Archeoraptor | Jun 15 2018, 04:47 PM Post #752 |
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"A living paradox"
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about the bacteria thing, have to say archeans are mor e related to eukariotes than to bacteria |
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| Holben | Jun 15 2018, 05:24 PM Post #753 |
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Rumbo a la Victoria
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Archaea were originally referred to as archaebacteria, so often when people are being loose with terminology they will talk about archaeans as bacteria. |
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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| Akurian452 | Jun 15 2018, 06:00 PM Post #754 |
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Repeating and rewording a question I asked earlier. Would higher gravity pose problems for burrowing animals (e.g. hi-G causing burrows to collapse and crush those who made them)? |
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| beingsneaky | Jun 15 2018, 06:09 PM Post #755 |
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Adolescent
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can wheelbugs diversify and take on more niches |
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| Mynameisnotdave23 | Jun 15 2018, 07:58 PM Post #756 |
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Why couldn't they? If you present the right circumstances, life can really do almost anything. |
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| GreatAuk | Jun 17 2018, 08:11 AM Post #757 |
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Northern Penguin
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Does the genera name come before or after the species name? For example is Tyrannosaurus rex said Tyrant lizard king or king of the Tyrant Lizards? similarly is Stygimoloch said River Styx demon or demon of the River Styx? |
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| Rodlox | Jun 17 2018, 09:36 AM Post #758 |
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Superhuman
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i think that might be splitting a hair that doesn't need splitting |
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| LittleLazyLass | Jun 17 2018, 10:35 AM Post #759 |
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Proud quilt in a bag
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As far as I know it's usually just whichever flows more naturally. |
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| CaledonianWarrior96 | Jun 17 2018, 10:49 AM Post #760 |
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An Awesome Reptile
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I've always assumed it was the species name then the genus name, but I guess overall it doesn't matter |
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| Dromaeosaurus | Jun 17 2018, 11:40 AM Post #761 |
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Haemothermic orthostatic matrotrophic lexiphanic deuterostome
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In the original formulation, the genus was supposed to be a "kind" of animal, and the species a particular "variety" of that "kind", so usually the genus was a name and the species an adjective relating to that noun, or otherwise a modification of the genus; for example, an Equus africanus is a horse (Equus) that is African (africanus). I would say that a Tyrannosaurus rex is more specifically a tyrant lizard that is a king, rather than a king of tyrant lizards. But it doesn't make much difference in English, and modern names don't always follow that scheme anyway. As for the translations of Stygimoloch, they seem exactly equivalent to me. |
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| Talenkauen | Jun 17 2018, 11:42 AM Post #762 |
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Perpetually paranoid iguanodont
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How large can a tardigrade theoretically get, and under what conditions would it be possible? What do they even eat? |
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| IIGSY | Jun 17 2018, 01:39 PM Post #763 |
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A huntsman spider that wastes time on the internet because it has nothing better to do
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The largest tardigrades are little over 1mm. One reason they (and so many other microscopic animals) are so small is because of a thing called eutely. Basically, once many animals reach adult size, their cells stop dividing. This means they have a fixed cell count, which prevents them from growing any further. I think tardigrades have pretty much maxed out irl. Tardigrades are a group of little over a thousand species. They can be detritivores, herbivores, carnivores and even parasites. |
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| Russwallac | Jun 19 2018, 07:48 AM Post #764 |
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"Ta-da!"
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In Latin-based languages, the descriptor comes after the object. If English worked the same way, for example, it wouldn't be "brown dog," it'd be "dog brown." So, in general, species names are descriptors, and genus names are objects. However, in the case of Tyrannosaurus rex and Styigmoloch, this doesn't really matter, since the meaning is the same regardless of the order. |
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| Akurian452 | Jun 19 2018, 03:29 PM Post #765 |
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If cephalopods are able to possess multiple limps and still have enough energy to allow higher cognitive function (compared to most other animals), could there theoretically be a terrestrial organism that's the same (an 8-10 limbed organism with chimp to human level intelligence)? |
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