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Life Is What We Think
We think that life is, but it really is only what we think it is, even according to palaeontological interpretations.
The Looks Of Ancestral And Yet-To-Be Mountains
A disquisition that we sometimes make here at Andinia, related as it is with trekking and exploration but somewhat arcane, is to consider or speculate about what could we see as explores in our planet if we could travel thorough time.
The First Land-Based Plants
We love plants, but seldom stop a while to think and ponder about their history: plants, like animals, originated in ancient seas. Fossil records as well as interpretative reconstructions provide us with some basis for understanding how plants came out of the water and disseminated thorough land.
Sigillaria
Trees may sometimes behave in strange ways, and help us understand our past: during the middle years of the nineteenth century, a certain number of tree stumps were found in Nova Scotia. These were in a fossil state and dated as belonging to the middle of the Carboniferous period.
The Reptilian Egg And Maternal Instincts Among Dinosaurs
Regarding sexy matters and things, the attraction between genders and everything that is erotic, there are new and fascinating discoveries: it seems that dinosaurs already had a kind of sexual behaviour that was not just limited to courting rituals and reproduction.
The First Cambrian Fish
It is interesting to see tropical fish swimming from one place to another with no apparent plan, but this picturesque entertainment reminds us of what other tropical fish, now lost in the night of time, achieved for us. Fish are counted among the oldest vertebrates in the planet.
Solnhofen
In a country like Germany there are lots of things to see and to do because it offers an incredible variety of attractions for all sorts of traveller and tourists. However, a place that we would like to recommend you to visit is Solnhofen, where you will be able to take one of the best looks at the past of our planet that it is possible yet to have.
Edentates of the Palaeocene
Regarding personal defence, we humans have only gotten as far as developing techniques using the same basic tool: our body, Instead, some animals, over very long periods of time have evolved full-scale body armour and even defensive weaponry by means of mutations and genetic evolution, turning them into a paradigm of self -defence.
The Stuff Contained In Precambrain Rocks
It is a little bit ironic that today we are trying to buy tents and shelters for our outdoor excursions and adventures when the concept of a shelter has been around for a while; quite a while indeed, if you think that the first shelters that we have notices about were created during the night of times, around one thousand million years ago, not by humans, but by small animal organisms that populated Earth at that time.
Survivors Of The K-T Event
It is from nature that we can extract the deepest wisdom, the better lessons and the truest sense of what means to live and prosper, and nothing better than to resort to the science that teaches about the history of life on Earth: palaeontology.
The Hamster And The Tyrannosaurus
The first thing that comes to mind when thinking about hamsters is how they run on the wheels that we provide them with if they become our pets. But for us here at Andinia, hamsters also remind us that we, and all mammals were one day little more that these small rodents.
Not Your Dog's Masterpieces
Something that on a first impression may seem laughable but is a serious matter indeed is the concept of a 'coprolite.'
The Eyes Of Phacops
Exploring our world has allowed science to find out some fascinating things: palaeontology is a science that studies past, extinct animals and plants of all sorts, and leads us to surprising conclusions about the evolution of life.
Anatosauridae
It is curious that science may sometimes indicate us with certainty a lot of things about ancient diets, and we are not talking now about what our grandparents used to have for dinner, but about diets that no one followed for the past seventy million years, since the late Cretaceous period.
Avimimus, The Ancient Singer
While we are thinking here about exploration, how to reach the farthest places, on past lives and sounds, all this reminds us of the 'Avimimus,' an ancient animal that lived about seventy five million years ago - during the late Cretaceous - in what is now Mongolia. What kind of sounds could have made this little dinosaur?
Morganucodon, Our Oldest Mammal Ancestor
If you ask a zoologist what would define or characterise most mammals, he or she would probably talk about their dentition, which has characteristically three different types of teeth combined: incisive, canines and molars.
Monkeys And Dinosaurs?
Did monkeys share the world with dinosaurs? Are they sharing it now? Primates in particular, and mammals in general, have been evolving in our world for quite a long time now, and if we 'Homo sapiens' are what we are, it is because our ancestors have been evolving since the era of the dinosaurs.
The Baluchitherium Of Chapman Andrews
The idea that monsters do exist comes probably from the finding of fossil remains long before their original was scientifically explained for the first time, around 1850 when the science of palaeontology was born, but aside from the fact that we know the origins of those bones turned into stone, they don't cease to fascinate us. Moreover: dinosaur fossils are extremely valuable, surpassing millions of dollars in net worth.
Ediacaran And Other Australian Organisms
Australia got detached from the super continent Gondwana some tens of millions of years ago; this super continent preceded in every aspect the development of mankind and from it, the continents that we know today originated, for the most part.
The Permo - Triassic Extinction (P-T- Event)
You may probably have already read or heard about the extinction of dinosaurs by the impact of a meteorite, 66,4 million years ago. That is know as the K-T event, which marked the end of the Cretaceous period and the beginning of the Tertiary. It was, indeed, an unfortunate and catastrophic event that caused the demise of a huge biomass on Earth.
Are Mammals Facing Extinction (Including Us)?
Life is indeed an adventure; make the most of it! But to say that we have to breed and spread the species is no exaggeration: data that comes from the studies done within the realm of palaeontology seem to suggest that the biodiversity of placental mammals - to which we belong - is dwindling down.
The Central American Cork That Sealed The Fate Of Earth's Climate
Small things can indeed become big problems, especially if they alter the climate.
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