Tag Archives: Evolution

Massensterben

Posted on 19. November 2016 by schaefew

Eintagsfliegen mit einer Flügelspannbreite von 48 Zentimetern und bis zu 2 Meter große Tausendfüßer und Skorpione – nicht für jeden von uns eine verlockende Vorstellung. Aber so hat es hier auf der Erde mal ausgesehen. Das glauben jedenfalls zwei amerikanische … Continue reading →

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Poor dodo

Posted on 18. September 2013 by schaefew

The ancestors of the dodo flew to Mauritius. There, they had no natural enemies, got larger and larger and lost the ability to fly, in an inverse evolutionary process, so to speak. When the Europeans came to Mauritius, they brought … Continue reading →

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Seafarers

Posted on 17. September 2013 by schaefew

Both the seal and the whale are animals which left the water to live on land and then left the land and returned to the water. (Chaline, Eric: Fifty Animals that Changed the Course of History. Buffalo, New York: Firefly Books, … Continue reading →

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