Pliocene mammals

According to Ms. Witsaman, evolution is not the theory of how life began, which is a common misconception nowadays, but the theory of how life has changed over time. Theories are predictions which are backed up by several evidences and supported by scientists. The evidences that scientists use now to prove include fossils, homologous structures, analogous structures, vestigial structures, embryology, biogeography, and biochemicals. Fossils are the remains of living things that once roamed the Earth

Kourtney Baley Professor Marcom Anthropology 2:30-3:50 April 17, 2011 A Comparison of Three Australopithecines Just to make it fair for all readers , the Australopithecus is the genus of Pliocene and Pleistocene hominids. A major characteristic of a hominid is bipedal locomotion or walking upright on two legs. Several types of Australopithecines have been found but all lived Africa mostly east Africa about four million years ago. The Australopithecus is the first definite hominid but they

My name is Sean Keefe and I am an intern for the recently deceased Harvey Manfrenjensenjen. While sorting through samples I came across 6 hominin skulls that lack analysis. In this project, I am going to explain and talk about the six skulls in the Anthropology Department that I found. To do this, I will use what I have learned in lecture, as well as numerous outside sources to describe three defining characteristics for each skull. Additionally, I will provide necessary information about each

Australopithecine or Australopith, is an informal term used, primarily, to describe all species in the, related, Australopithecus and Paranthropus genera (McHenry 2017). The clade does, however, also include; Sahelanthropus tchadensis (7–6 mya), Orrorin tugenensis (6 mya), Ardipithecus kadabba and Ardipithecus ramidus (5.8–4.4 mya), Kenyanthropus platyops (3.5–3.2 mya), and other human-like primates (McHenry 2017; Szpak 2017). The distribution of Australopithecines stretches across Africa, encompassing

suitable, the woolly rhinos were able to spread into that region. They were "preadapted" for life in the bitter cold of winter snows. FROM THIS REASONING our "out-of-Tibet hypothesis" was born. The Pleistocene was the heyday of so-called megafauna, mammals weighing 100 pounds or more, many larger than their modern relatives They included the woolly rhinos, giant sloths, and saber-toothed cats, all now extinct. We envision ancestral megafauna using high-altitude Tibet, with its cold habitat and thin

were identified belonging to the Middle Miocene, late Miocene and early Pliocene. The zones are Multispinulosa quanta Chytroeisphaeridium chytroides,

years ago. It was made up of 5 different epochs.” “Paleocene epoch that was 65 to 54 million years ago.” “ Eocene epoch that was 54 to 38 million years ago.” “ Oligocene epoch 38 to 24 million years ago.” “ Miocene epoch 24 to 5 million years ago.” “Pliocene epoch 5 to 1.8 million years ago.” Tertiary is the third era. “During the Tertiary period placement of the continents were different than were they are located today.” “There were only the Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, and the Indian Ocean.” “

were starting to change again,. For example, North and South America joined at Panama. This was in the time of the Pliocene period, so the weather was very warm. There was a dramatic evolution in the environment too because animals started to appear again such as, insects, birds, corals, deep-sea organisms, marine plankton, clams, snails, and many other groups occurred. One of these mammal groups that started to over populate again was deer and that is how Bambi was born. She came into this world as

order for them to survive they must get energy, move and grow, reproduce, protect themselves and adapt to their environment. Everyone knows sloths are slow, but did you know sloths move so slow algae can grow on their fur? Sloths are slow moving mammals. They are native to Central and South America. They live in the trees of the rainforests. They provide a habitat for many other organisms that live in their fur. Some of the organisms that live in the sloth’s fur include moths, beetles, fungi

WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE ABOUT SLOTHS Sloths (/ˈsloʊθ/ sloh-th, /ˈslɒθ/ slo-th)[2] are medium-sized mammals belonging to the families Megalonychidae (two-toed sloth) and Bradypodidae (three-toed sloth), classified into six species. They are part of the order Pilosa and are therefore related to anteaters, which sport a similar set of specialized claws. Extant sloths are arboreal (tree-dwelling) residents of the jungles of Central and South America, and are known for being slow-moving, and hence named