SURPRISES IN THE CLASSIFICATION OF LIVING ORGANISMS, 8: Big double mammal brains trumped the...
BY DR. JOSE PALU-AY DACUDAO
(Part 3)
THE GREATEST mass extinction in the planet’s history occurred around 252 million years ago, at the junction of the...
SURPRISES IN THE CLASSIFICATION OF LIVING ORGANISMS, 8: Big double mammal brains trumped the...
BY DR. JOSE PALU-AY DACUDAO
(Part 2)
GOING back to the question why did dinosaurs never evolve to be as intelligent as mammals?
In my opinion it...
SURPRISES IN THE CLASSIFICATION OF LIVING ORGANISMS, 8; Big double mammal brains trumped the...
BY DR. JOSE PALU-AY DACUDAO
(Part 1)
WHAT is the main reason why mammals took over most of the medium-to-large terrestrial animal niches over dinosaurs (which...
Fermi Tsiolkovsky Paradox – a possibly overlooked solution (Sci-fi, Fantasy, and Theological Explanations, Or...
BY DR. JOEY PALU-AY DACUDAO
IF ADVANCED civilizations are inherently hostile and so tend to destroy others, it follows that the surviving ones would maintain...
Fermi Tsiolkovsky Paradox – a possibly overlooked solution (Sci-fi, Fantasy, and Theological Explanations, Or...
BY DR. JOEY PALU-AY DACUDAO
(Part 1)
IN 1933, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, wrote about the now famous conundrum. To paraphrase: “If intelligent beings on the planets of...
SURPRISES IN THE CLASSIFICATION OF LIVING ORGANISMS, 7 (Birds are dinosaurs, or why dinosaurs...
BY DR. JOSE PALU-AY DACUDAO
BRAINS aside, birds have advantages over mammals. Most obvious is their mostly unidirectional breathing.
A bird typically possesses a posterior air...
SURPRISES IN THE CLASSIFICATION OF LIVING ORGANISMS, 7 (Birds are dinosaurs, or why dinosaurs...
BY DR. JOSE PALU-AY DACUDAO
GONE ARE the days when dinosaurs are depicted as slow-moving cold-blooded stupid pea-brained creatures, dragging their tails on the ground...
SURPRISES IN THE CLASSIFICATION OF LIVING ORGANISMS, 7: Birds are dinosaurs, or why dinosaurs...
(Part 2)
BY DR. JOSE PALU-AY DACUDAO
One of the main reasons seems to be that birds have clavicles (collar bones) that fuse to form the...
SURPRISES IN THE CLASSIFICATION OF LIVING ORGANISMS, 7: Birds are dinosaurs, or why dinosaurs...
BY DR. JOSE PALU-AY DACUDAO
(Part 1)
WHEN was the last time you ate dinosaur?
The last time you ate chicken.
Birds are dinosaurs.
Dinosaurs are not extinct.
Specifically, birds...
Surprises in the classification of living organisms 6 (Insects are Crustaceans)
BY DR. JOSE PALU-AY DACUDAO
EVERYONE has encountered insects. A million species of insects have been identified, and the number keeps on rising as new...