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The Triassic Period

28/08/2020 Darwin's Door

After the Great Dying, how did life continue?

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Posted in: Feed, Time Tour Filed under: End-Permian Mass Extinction, Mesozoic, Triassic

Spiders: Weaving Their Webs For 300 Million Years

14/08/2020 Darwin's Door

How did the eight-legged freaks first evolve, and why do they spin such elegant webs?

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Posted in: Feed, Prehistoric Planet Filed under: Carboniferous, Devonian, Permian, Spider

The Evolution of Cetaceans: A Whale of a Time

31/07/2020 Darwin's Door

How did the largest modern mammals evolve from small terrestrial ancestors?

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Posted in: Feed, Prehistoric Planet Filed under: Cetacean, Eocene, Whales

Why Have Potty-Humour When You Can Have Coprolite-Comedy?

17/07/2020 Darwin's Door

Discover how palaeontologists use what animal’s leave behind to solve mysteries of the past.

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Posted in: Feed, Prehistoric Planet Filed under: Coprolite, Cretaceous, Jurassic, ordovician, Silurian, Triassic, Tyrannosaurus

The Permian Period

03/07/2020 Darwin's Door

Once the rainforests collapsed, new forms of life conquered the Earth.

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Posted in: Feed, Time Tour Filed under: End-Permian Mass Extinction, Permian, Synapsid

Gliders of the Prehistoric World

19/06/2020 Darwin's Door

After exploring the evolution of flight, now we can question how gliding came to be.

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Posted in: Feed, Prehistoric Planet Filed under: Cretaceous, Flight, Glide, Jurassic, Permian, Triassic

Acinonyx pardinensis: The Need For Speed

05/06/2020 Darwin's Door

A quick read about an even quicker cat

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Posted in: Feed, Prehistoric Planet Filed under: cat, Cheetah, pleistocene

Ursus spelaeus: The Bear Necessities

22/05/2020 Darwin's Door

Ferocious fiend or cuddly creature? What exactly was a cave bear? Find out here.

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Posted in: Feed, Prehistoric Planet Filed under: bear, neanderthalensis, pleistocene

How Flight Evolved in Bats: Radars Take to the Wing

08/05/2020 Darwin's Door

The fourth article about the evolution of flight. How did the mammals join the fight for dominance in the air?

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Posted in: Feed, Prehistoric Planet Filed under: Bats, Chiroptera, Eocene, Flight

The Carboniferous Period

24/04/2020 Darwin's Door

What happened to life on Earth once the land was finally conquered?

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Posted in: Feed, Time Tour Filed under: Arthropods, Carboniferous, Insects, terrestrialisation, Tetrapods

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