A History Of Life

1. Strange Science
(Theory of evolution/Earth Science matters)

...t;dinosaurs & dragons " or "sea monsters " to find tens of illustrations depicting what ancient (and usually large) beings must have looked like, with sources and links. Or the tens...

2. From production to final burial - pt. 2
(Taphonomy/Shell transport)

...ern Emilia, Italy). Palaios 16, 336-353. Dominici S. 2004. Quantitative taphonomy in sandstones from ancient fan delta systems (lower Pleistocene, Western Emilia, Italy). Palaios 19, 193-205. ...

3. From production to final burial
(Taphonomy/Shell transport)

...sts, bear witness of this. In the Tremp-Graus Basin, strata can be actually walked on from the sites where ancient benthic organisms lived to where they finally got buried.   ...

4. Shell beds at ravinement surfaces
(Taphonomy/Shell beds and sequence stratigraphy)

... Demarest J.M. and Kraft J.C. 1987. Stratigraphic record of Quaternary sea levels: implications for more ancient strata. In: D. Nummedal, O.H. Pilkey and J.D. Howard, Editors, Sea Level Fluctuation...

5. What's a mangrove?
(Past ecosystems/Mangrove forest)

...in the fossil record from their pollen grains, whereas fruits, leaves and wood can be hardly recognized in ancient peat deposits (Plaziat 1995). Such fossils suggest that the modern ecosystem arose a...

6. Whale-fall communities on the shelf
(Past ecosystems/Whale-fall communities)

... benthic specialists adapted to exploit resources associated with whale carcasses. Documents on modern and ancient taxa are associated to whale remains in shelfal settings are badly needed, and appear...