Friday, April 02, 2010

DARREN NAISH: The best April Fools catchup #2

Minxy Cottonsocks and the evolution of dropgorgons and other winged cats

Category: mammalogy

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If anything should be clear from the range of creatures that I write about at Tet Zoo - think caecilians, borhyaenoids, imaginary giant owls and rhynchosaurs - it's that there's an almost infinite amount of technical information on obscure creatures 'locked away' in the technical literature. Among the most remarkable of mammals are, without doubt, the winged cats or pantheropterygines, yet for all their fame and notoriety, most of the information on these creatures has remained widely scattered in the literature and a good synthesis is absent....

http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2010/04/winged_cats_first_synthesis.php


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