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The oldest known specimen of Orthacanthus, Diplodus problematicus, was found in New Brunswick, Canada, in the Lower Devonian (Emsian, c. 407 to 393 million years ago). [5] Other specimens have been found in locations including the US, the United Kingdom, Poland, and France. [5]
Burrow et al. 2016 provides vindication by finding chondrichthyans to be nested among Acanthodii, most closely related to Doliodus and Tamiobatis. [2] A 2017 study of Doliodus morphology points out that it appears to display a mosaic of shark and acanthodian features, making it a transitional fossil and further reinforcing this idea. [5]
Doliolidae is a family of tunicates in the order Doliolida.Members of the family are pelagic and often found far away from coastlines. [1]Members of the family are transparent, gelatinous, barrel-shaped or cylindrical marine organisms.
The diet in the tropics tended [when?] to depend more heavily on plant foods, while the diet at higher latitudes tended more towards animal products. Analyses of postcranial and cranial remains of humans and animals from the Neolithic, along with detailed bone-modification studies, have shown that cannibalism also occurred among prehistoric humans.
Adventist Health Studies (AHS) is a series of long-term medical research projects of Loma Linda University with the intent to measure the link between lifestyle, diet, disease and mortality of Seventh-day Adventists.
Ethel Johnson, former residential school student of the Shubenacadie school in Nova Scotia, illustrates her younger sister's struggles eating the unpalatable food served at the school: And she couldn't eat it, and she started crying. And then she tried to make her eat it; and she couldn't. And then she threw up, and then she put her face in there.
Letter concerning the discovery of the 1823 Plesiosaurus, from Mary Anning.. This timeline of plesiosaur research is a chronologically ordered list of important fossil discoveries, controversies of interpretation, taxonomic revisions, and cultural portrayals of plesiosaurs, an order of marine reptiles that flourished during the Mesozoic Era.
† Pachyrhachis problematicus Haas, 1979 Pachyrhachis (from Greek : παχύς pakhús , 'thick' and Greek : ῥάχῐς rhákhis , 'spine') is an extinct genus of snake with well developed hind legs known from fossils discovered in Ein Yabrud , near Ramallah , in the central West Bank .