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With the recent describing of the Wahlisaurus massarae, an Ichthyosaur that was discovered in England over 60 years ago but has only been described as a newly discovered species last week (article here and the full research paper here), I decided to make a thread about paleontology.
Are you interested in paleontology, the study of life before the Holocene (our era)? Which aspects interest you an why?
Are there any animal groups that really interest you or are you more interested in the concept of evolution itself?
Anyways, I've been interested in pregistoric life as far as I can remember. I've liked dinosaurs since I was a little kid that couldn't read yet. My firs books were about them and my favorite show in the 90's was the BBC's Walking With Dinosaurs.
When I started to get older, I wanted to know more. Not only about them, but about everything that lived alongside them (like pterosaurs, marine reptiles, extint crocodiles, mammals, etc), their world and how it changed an where they actually came from.
That last part eventually led me to the Paleozoic era (rougly 540 million years ago till 250 million years ago), from when multi-cellular life started to appear really rapidly in the Cambrian until the biggest mass extinction the Earth has ever seen at the end of the Permean 250 million years ago, which gave the small dinosauromorpha the opportunity to become the dominant group on the planet.
The groups I'm the most interested in are the early dinosaurs from the Triassic and the Maniraptora clade, which developed a lot of bird-like elements.
So yeah, that's pretty much my story about the matter in a really tiny nutshell.
If there's anything else you want to say about this subject, feel free to do so.
Are you interested in paleontology, the study of life before the Holocene (our era)? Which aspects interest you an why?
Are there any animal groups that really interest you or are you more interested in the concept of evolution itself?
Anyways, I've been interested in pregistoric life as far as I can remember. I've liked dinosaurs since I was a little kid that couldn't read yet. My firs books were about them and my favorite show in the 90's was the BBC's Walking With Dinosaurs.
When I started to get older, I wanted to know more. Not only about them, but about everything that lived alongside them (like pterosaurs, marine reptiles, extint crocodiles, mammals, etc), their world and how it changed an where they actually came from.
That last part eventually led me to the Paleozoic era (rougly 540 million years ago till 250 million years ago), from when multi-cellular life started to appear really rapidly in the Cambrian until the biggest mass extinction the Earth has ever seen at the end of the Permean 250 million years ago, which gave the small dinosauromorpha the opportunity to become the dominant group on the planet.
The groups I'm the most interested in are the early dinosaurs from the Triassic and the Maniraptora clade, which developed a lot of bird-like elements.
So yeah, that's pretty much my story about the matter in a really tiny nutshell.
If there's anything else you want to say about this subject, feel free to do so.