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...crept on land. The fishapod appears to be a crucial link in the long chain that over time led to amphibians, reptiles, dinosaurs, birds and mammals. Indeed, Tiktaalik roseae, the official name bestowed on the fishapod (in the language of the local Inuit, tiktaalik means "large fish in stream"), falls anatomically between the lobe-finned fish Panderichthys, found in Latvia in the 1920s, and primitive tetrapods like Acanthostega, whose full fossil was recovered in Greenland not quite two decades...
...musically goes a step beyond the rest of the “Savoy Operas,” as the classic-era G&S operas were called. While the story is appropriately wacky and amusing, one appreciates when characters frequently stop to wax poetic or to throw off an endless stream of words in beautiful song...
...Nature articles released today, were dug out of rock formations on Ellesmere Island, in the Canadian Arctic, by paleontologists from the University of Chicago and several other institutions. Its nickame, for reasons that will become clear, is "fishapod"; it's more formally called Tiktaalik ("large fish in stream," in the local Inuit language). Fishapod dates from about 383 million years ago. It had the scales, teeth and gills of a fish, but also a big, curved rib cage that suggests the creature had lungs as well. The ribs interlock, moreover, unlike a fish's, implying they were able to bear...
...principle, this cycle of stress accumulation and release should be fairly regular, but scientists are finding it is not. Paleoseismologist Tina Niemi of the University of Missouri--Kansas City, for example, is studying a stream-fed marsh near Tomales Bay that has preserved evidence of past earthquakes in its sedimentary layers. By trenching through those layers to a depth of 15 ft., she has uncovered buried fissures formed by recurrent earth movements along the San Andreas. On average, that pattern repeats every 250 or so years, but "average" in this case covers a wide range. In one instance there appears...
Harvard’s success this year has been predicated on fast starts, but a 3-1 Quaker lead less than ten minutes into the opening quarter had the Crimson playing from behind. Despite the early setback, it was a steady stream of first quarter shots that knotted things up at three after the first fifteen minutes...