Nov 8, 2014 | Diet and Nutrition, Natural History Blog
I thought I might take a bit of time clarifying the differences among the terms carnivore, carnivora, and carnivoran as they are often confused… The term “carnivore” is one that is best defined by a simple food web: at the base (first trophic level) of the food web...
Nov 6, 2014 | Evolution, Natural History Blog
It is now known that feathers first evolved in dinosaurs. So-called protofeathers serve an insulation function, which would have been important to poikiotherms/ectotherms such as dinosaurs whose internal sources of heat would have been negligible. This is not such a...