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...
Surprises in the classification of living organisms 5 (Termites and Cockroaches)
BY DR. JOSE PALU-AY DACUDAO
QUICK. What is the commonality among praying mantises, cockroaches, and termites?
They all have the same egg casing, called the ootheca....
Surprises in the classification of living organisms, 4 (Animals and Fungi) (Part 2)
YOU’VE probably guessed this next statement. Yes, the cell walls of fungi contain chitin.
A more convincing evidence is that primitive fungal spores possess flagella....
Surprises in the classification of living organisms, 4 (Animals and Fungi)
BY DR. JOSE PALU-AY DACUDAO
(Part 1)
AS PREVIOUSLY noted, for centuries the traditional way of classifying things in nature was to divide them into three...
Surprises in the classification of living organisms, 5 (Or Why Killing Dolphins is Murder)
BY DR. JOSE PALU-AY DACUDAO
TO BE brief, the discovery of fossils of the species pakicetus in 1979 began the first serious turnabout of the...