A History Of Life

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

...from the original habitats (Dominici & Zuschin 2005). Paleogene strata in the Spanish Pyrenees, well-known to biostratigraphers and sedimentary geologists, bear witness of this. In the Tremp-Graus...

2. Man's roots, man's routes
(Theory of evolution/Man\'s evolution)

...logical and climate evidence, the virtual journey presents us with many events of our history yet little known, such as the disastrous vulcanic Mt. Toba eruption and the repopulation of the indian sub...

3. Paleontological sites of the Pisa Province (Italy)
(Paleontological sites/Neogene Europe)

...ovince of Pisa hosts two sites that have yielded abundant and diverrse vertebrates, namely Montopoli , reknown for its upper Pliocene terrestrial mammals, and Orciano Pisano , with middle Pliocene mar...

4. Sperm whales carcasses at the shelf break
(Past ecosystems/Whale-fall communities)

... implanted sperm whales (Fujiwara et al. 2007 ). The research allowed to now about the existence of well-known exploiters of bone lipids at deeper settings, such as bivalves belonging to genus Adipico...

5. Whale-fall bivalves
(Past ecosystems/Whale-fall communities)

...gh chemosymbiotic bacteria, hosted in their gills. If this type of resource exploitation is already well known in lucinoid bivalves, it is surprising to see deposit-feeders (Tellina) and suspension-fe...

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

...the deep water nectic and benthic assemblages associated with large whale carcasses are reasonably well-known, very little is published on whale-fall communities from shelfal depths. What shallow-wat...

7. Manifesto
(Static Content)

The universe counts possibly trillions of Solar Systems, but just one planet is positively known to be blessed with life. One lifetime - counting years from the birth of web 2.0 - may not be enough