formation | Boneblogger: Science and the outdoors https://boneblogger.com Exploring the natural world Fri, 11 Jun 2010 21:49:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 What is paleontology https://boneblogger.com/what-is-paleontology/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-is-paleontology Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:00:23 +0000 http://boneblogger.com/?p=104 What questions fall within the purview of “Paleontology”? Quite a wide variety, it turns out, because paleontology is the study of prehistoric life – the exploration of the entire history of life. Since 99.9% of all species that existed are now extinct, that is a lot of biodiversity. The science is multifaceted and diverse because […]

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]]> Bonnerichthys https://boneblogger.com/bonnerichthys/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bonnerichthys Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:30:30 +0000 http://boneblogger.com/?p=114 In modern oceans, the very largest organisms specialize in filter feeding, or living on the very small plankton in the water. (Read more about the filter feeding niche). Up until now, it has appeared to researcher that during the Age of Dinosaurs, when the oceans were dominated by large, toothy reptiles, there were no marine […]

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