Transitional fossil

Throughout the 21st century Somali terrorists have terrorized the land and sea of the horn of Africa. Somalia is a country that has been plagued with civil war since 1986. In Somalia right now there are two major Islamic terrorist groups. Theses groups are known as Al-Shabaab and Al-Qaeda. From what these terrorist groups have done, Somalia is ;left with close to nothing to build it back up. Somalia cannot overcome this issue of terrorism because of Al-Shabaab, terrorists taking over the nation,…

The data recorded after the summative assessment on fossils showed that the students below level reading and ELLs that speak only Spanish at home both received a failing average. Students who are below reading level had an average of 65% and the ELLs that speak only Spanish at home received an average of 69%. This showed that these students did not know the vocabulary given or did not fully understand what was taught because of their low reading levels, lack of academic vocabulary and…

a Paleontologist who works for the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. Ian Miller’s problem is that he wants to find out how Western North America changed from the past 100 million years, what past climates were like 100 million years ago and the fossil ecosystems that existed 100 million years ago. Through solving and studying this problem, there have been many obstacles to solving his questions. Although obstacles causes trouble and hardships through experiments and test, Ian Miller has been…

In his article, First hominin fossils from Milner Hall, Sterkfontein, South Africa, Stratford discusses his finds on two hominin fossils excavated recently in Milner Hall, Sterkfontein, South Africa in December 2014. What makes this an interesting find is not just that they are the first hominin fossils to found in its original positioning from the site, but their reminiscent structure present, "intriguing taxonomic…

There is a steadily growing consensus that recent human activity has had such an impact that it has shifted the Earth into a new geologic epoch of our own making. The advent of this epoch, known as the Anthropocene, has generated much discussion and tension between the various science disciplines. The major issue being discussed is whether there is a need for a new era covering the last three centuries of human impact on the planet. Defining this epoch, in terms of both time and space, has also…

limestone was located in an intertidal place. The mud cracks and ripple marks says that while the Lower Manlius Rock layer was being built, the land was a lagoon environment. At this time, there was more sea life. There were coral reef and mollusk fossils located in the manlius at this…

Ichthyosaurs, or fish-lizards, are fish-shaped reptiles that lived in our oceans 160 million years ago, during the Jurassic period. Paleontologists discovered the first fossils in the early 1800s, far before dinosaurs were ever discovered. This genus evolved from animals that lived on land. They had more than eighty different species in their genus. One species of the ichthyosaurs is the Ophthalmosaurus. As an adult, this creature was two times the size of a human with a tooth filled snout.…

by residual fossils: the older the older, the more the difference between its morphology and the existing species. At the same time people can also discover the relationship between species and species from fossils. Archaeopteryx has sharp teeth, feet three toes have claws, long bone tail, these are dinosaur features, and it also has feathers, wings, and modern birds similar, so is considered a dinosaur evolution to the birds of the bridge. And later also found feather dinosaur fossils,…

1. The movie Life on Earth focused on how fossils are glimpses of a distant past because they explain how life evolved on earth. They also used a Cladogram to explain the cladistic relationship between a number of species. The first organism with a nucleus lived one and a half million years ago. An animal with a braincase and a beginning of a backbone appeared 500 million years ago. Amniotes were split into two main lineages. One is identified by a hole that evolved in the skull behind the eye…

evolutionary mechanism. Amy Balanoff and a team of evolutionary biologist used fossils and a large comparative analysis of modern animals found that the loss of teeth and the emergence of beaks are connected processes in theropods. The team suggested that over time the beak grew across the dinosaur’s face which inhibited the growth of teeth.…