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Post by Infinity Blade on Oct 29, 2020 8:29:57 GMT 5
TIL that there's actually been some dispute over whether or not 'Tertiary' should be reinstated as an official geologic time period. In fact, the majority of the Geological Society Stratigraphy Commission were in favor of reinstatement of the Tertiary as an official period of the Cenozoic. This was all the way back in 2012, so I wonder if this sentiment is still prominent. discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1398932/2/1398932.pdf |
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Post by Infinity Blade on Nov 11, 2020 7:43:59 GMT 5
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Post by Infinity Blade on Dec 4, 2020 21:53:19 GMT 5
TIL that lions have a little spike of hardened skin in their tail tufts. The function of it is unknown.
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Post by Infinity Blade on Dec 10, 2020 5:50:33 GMT 5
TIL that Ernst Haeckel proposed common names for certain dinosaur groups. - Theropods=tigerdrachen (tiger dragons)
- Prosauropods=barendrachen (bear dragons)
- Thyreophorans and ceratopsians=panzerdrachen (armored dragons)
- Sauropods=riesendrachen (giant dragons)
- Ornithopods=vogeldrachen (bird dragons)
(German speakers on this forum, please tell me I got the last two right) I am so adopting these. |
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Post by creature386 on Dec 10, 2020 12:26:34 GMT 5
Yeah, these translations are spot-on.
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Post by Infinity Blade on Dec 30, 2020 9:52:23 GMT 5
TIL that in 1963 the Bronx Zoo had an exhibit called "The Most Dangerous Animal in the World" in the Great Apes House. The image below explains itself. Image source->.  |
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Post by Infinity Blade on Jan 2, 2021 7:13:08 GMT 5
TIL that there was a Greek monk (Mihailo Tolotos) who lived his entire life and died without ever seeing a woman.  |
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Post by Infinity Blade on Jan 20, 2021 6:09:08 GMT 5
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Post by creature386 on Jan 22, 2021 18:13:39 GMT 5
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Post by Infinity Blade on Jan 25, 2021 9:01:22 GMT 5
TIL that the chuck-will's-widow will occasionally eat small birds and bats by swallowing them whole.
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Post by Infinity Blade on Feb 3, 2021 2:02:21 GMT 5
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Post by Infinity Blade on Feb 8, 2021 7:03:00 GMT 5
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Post by Infinity Blade on Mar 1, 2021 9:39:56 GMT 5
TIL that Blaire Van Valkenburgh was a doctoral student of Robert Bakker's (I've somehow never noticed this from all the times I've looked at his Wikipedia page). I would never have guessed that, considering how their main focuses seem to be different. Van Valkenburgh's research is focused on carnivorans, while Bakker's is focused on dinosaurs.
Does this mean my doctoral advisor and I don't have to share the exact same research interest?
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Post by creature386 on Mar 1, 2021 13:08:24 GMT 5
Does this mean my doctoral advisor and I don't have to share the exact same research interest? I never wrote a doctoral dissertation, so, take what I say with a grain of salt. I guess it can be helpful if you have as much overlap as possible, however, sometimes, there are certain topics that fall in multiple fields. For example, if you write a thesis about the biomechanics of theropod bites, it'd help if your advisor was a vertebrate paleontologist, but you should also do fine with an advisor who wrote many papers about the biomechanics of, say, crocodile bites. Plus, you often have multiple advisors. My bachelor thesis was about paleontology, but one of my co-supervisors was a geographer as my specific topic kinda veered in that field. |
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Post by Infinity Blade on Mar 1, 2021 18:16:57 GMT 5
That makes some sense, actually.
I know at least one of the programs I applied to is run by someone who seems to have at least some interest in morphology, even though it's not his sole or even central focus.
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