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The invisible fish: hydrodynamic constraints for predator-prey interaction in fossil fish Saurichthys compared to recent actinopterygians [PDF]
Biology Open, 2015 Recent pike-like predatory fishes attack prey animals by a quick strike out of rest or slow movement. This fast-start behaviour includes a preparatory, a propulsive and a final phase, and the latter is crucial for the success of the attack.
Ilja Kogan +5 more
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Cahiers François Viète, 2005 Stratigraphy studies the arrangement of sedimentary layers in order to establish correlations between them at a distance and to assign them an age. To do this, it uses different types of signals.
Claude Babin
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Re‐assessing regional chronologies for island southeast Asian voyaging to Aboriginal Australia
Archaeology in Oceania, Volume 58, Issue 3, Page 245-274, October 2023., 2023 ABSTRACT According to written histories, trepang fishers from Island Southeast Asia (“Makassans”) frequented coastal northern Australia from c.1750 to 1907 CE. Yolŋu oral traditions and old Austronesian borrow words in coastal Aboriginal languages suggest a long and complex history of foreign voyaging to northern Australia.
Chris Urwin +4 more
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Archaeology in Oceania, Volume 57, Issue 3, Page 223-248, October 2022., 2022 Abstract The causes of the Late Pleistocene extinction of most larger‐bodied animals on the Australian continent have long been controversial. This is due, in no small part, to inadequate knowledge of exactly when these species were lost from different ecosystems.
Gavin J. Prideaux +11 more
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The Journal of World Intellectual Property, Volume 25, Issue 2, Page 574-578, July 2022., 2022 Abstract This article examines the legal status of nomenclature codes and their application to denomination in certain forms of intellectual property, in particular plant breeder's rights and patents for micro‐organisms. Its objective is to show how rigidity and the absence of appeals against nomenclature decisions can have adverse effects on the ...
Stephen J. Maxwell, Michael Underdown
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Stratigraphie der jüngeren Pyroklastika der Sierra Nevada de Mexico durch schwermineralanalytische und pedologische Untersuchungen [PDF]
Eiszeitalter und Gegenwart, 1974 Zur Überprüfung der makroskopisch erarbeiteten Stratigraphie der jüngeren Pyroklastika der Sierra Nevada de Mexico wurden schwermineralanalytische und pedologische Untersuchungen an mehr als 200 Einzelproben durchgeführt.
G. Miehlich
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Vegetationsgeschichtliche Untersuchungen an altpleistozänen Ablagerungen aus Lieth bei Elmshorn [PDF]
Eiszeitalter und Gegenwart, 1969 In der „Meinert'schen Kalkgrube" in Lieth bei Elmshorn (Westholstein) wurde durch pollenanalytische Untersuchungen an organogenen Ablagerungen, die hier in einer Karstsenke liegen, eine altpleistozäne, vor-cromerzeitliche Schichtfolge nachgewiesen.
B. Menke
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Révision systématique des Hipparion sensu lato (Perissodactyla, Equidae) de l’Ancien Monde
Estudios Geologicos, 2005 La sistemática de Hipparion sensu lato del Antiguo Mundo se caracteriza por una multiplicación excesiva de especies relacionadas con este grupo y una marcada controversia sobre el status supraespecífico que trae consigo una confusión general de su ...
S. Zouhri, A. Bensalmia
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Neuere Funde des Weichselspätglazials in Schleswig-Holstein [PDF]
Eiszeitalter und Gegenwart, 1985 Es werden drei Fundplätze weichselspätglazialer organogener Ablagerungen (insbesondere des Alleröd-Interstadials) neu beschrieben. Daran anschließend wird die Stratigraphie des Weichselspätglazials für Schleswig-Holstein erörtert.
W. Bock, B. Menke, E. Strehl, H. Ziemus
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Des jeux de la Nature aux médailles de la Création
Cahiers François Viète, 2005 After having been considered for a long time as “games of nature” or as produced by the action of a “plastic force”, fossils were finally recognised towards the end of the 17th century, mainly thanks to Sténon, as the remains of living beings. With Hooke,
Jean Gaudant
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