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Big Eyes in Deep Divers?
I’m finally continuing my blog after being simply too busy over the last few months. I want to resume with a series of small posts on the eyes and visual capabilities of marine mammals, because there have been a few … Continue reading
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Tagged deep sea, diving, eye shape, eye size, eyes, giant eyes, ichthyosaurs, mammals, marine mammals, orbit, sea lions, seals, sensitivity, walrus
Nocturnal dinosaurs, again: the strength of discriminant analysis in quantitative paleobiology
More on nocturnal dinosaurs, or, importantly, on our quantitative approach to infer ecology and behavior in fossil vertebrates. Hall et al.’s technical comment provided us with the opportunity to further explain the strength of our approach. Schmitz, L. & R. … Continue reading
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Tagged cathemeral, dinosaurs, discriminant analysis, diurnal, ecomorphology, eye shape, nocturnal, paleobiology, pFDA, phylogenetic discriminant analysis, sensitivity, vision
Nocturnal dinosaurs
Nocturnal dinosaurs. Wait a second! Is that right? Nocturnal (= night-active) dinosaurs? Yes, indeed. Contrary to what was commonly believed, many dinosaurs were nocturnal. We have to change our perception of the dinosaur era. All details about methods, results, and … Continue reading
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Tagged dinosaurs, diurnal, eye shape, nocturnal, scleral rings, sensitivity, vision
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Eye shape revisited
In the anticipation of the publication of our dinosaur paper I thought it may be timely to highlight one of my latest papers: Schmitz, L. & R. Motani (2010). Morphological differences between the eyeballs of nocturnal and diurnal amniotes revisited … Continue reading
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Tagged diurnal, eye shape, nocturnal, scleral rings, sensitivity
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