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Sep 3, 2024 · Ordovician (485–443 Ma): Fish, the world's first true vertebrates, continued to evolve, and those with jaws (Gnathostomata) may have first appeared late in this period. Life had yet to diversify on land. Arandaspis: Arandaspis are jawless fish that lived in the early Ordovician period, about 480–470 Ma.
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Sep 12, 2024 · The evolution of several other, better-adapted fish groups soon followed the appearance of the placoderms, and this apparently led to their early extinction. Their greatest period of success was approximately during the middle of the Devonian, when some of them became marine.
3 days ago · Marine mammals were first hunted by aboriginal peoples for food and other resources. Many were also the target for commercial industry, leading to a sharp decline in all populations of exploited species, such as whales and seals. Commercial hunting led to the extinction of the Steller's sea cow, sea mink, Japanese sea lion and Caribbean monk seal.
5 days ago · Mammals arose in the Triassic from reptiles that had separated from the rest in the Carboniferous. They too have undergone sequential adaptive radiations, some of which occurred in the Mesozoic when they were kept small by the dinosaurs.
Sep 11, 2024 · Evolution. Dugongs are part of the Sirenia order of placental mammals which comprises modern "sea cows" (manatees as well as dugongs) and their extinct relatives. Sirenia are the only extant herbivorous marine mammals and the only group of herbivorous mammals to have become completely aquatic.
Sep 11, 2024 · Many scientists maintain that chordates originated sometime earlier than 590 million years ago; that is, they predate the fossil record. Such early representatives were soft-bodied and therefore left a poor fossil record. The oldest known fossil chordate is Pikaia gracilens, a primitive cephalochordate dated to approximately 505 million years ago.
2 days ago · The fiddler crab faced towards the camera, here, is one of those true crabs. Evolution keeps making crabs. In fact, it's happened so often that there's a scientific term for it: carcinization. If ...
