Fossil Study

Fossils Tell of Long Ago uses accessible language and illustrations to aid all students in vocabulary and new concept growth. Explicit instructions, reading the book allowed to the class, and allowing conversation among individual students as they work through learning new words will aid ELL students in expanding their word knowledge. Furthermore, having ELL students translate new word to into their native language will help them activate their previous knowledge. Encouraging all students to be actively engage in learning words will ensure that ELL students and all students will gain knowledge and make connections to new words.

dy of plant fossils and the understanding the evolution of plant life and ecology of earlier eras is known as paleobotany. Paleobotanists concern with fossil records of plants and their geologic history greatly describes the main concept of paleobotany. Only a small percentage of the plants that ever lived left evidence of existence. The major plant fossils that have been discovered are mineralized wood, flowers in amber, leaf imprints in coal, or other plant life many years ago. Paleobotanists document fossil records and use this evidence to find the past evolution of plants.

One of the primary change in strategies would require pruning Omega’s product lines to make it more coherent and to eliminate any potential intra-firm competition. Typically, the lower end models need to be pruned so that it could be positioned as a more effective Luxurious Brand to compete directly against other Luxury Brand watches. The prevention of any overlapping with sub-brands will ensure that there is no potential risk to the dilution of brand image as well as reduce the risk of cannibalization of the current product lines. This will also help in uplifting the overall brand image of the Omega brand by withdrawing a number of Omega’s low-priced models thereby boosting the band profitability which will ensure that there is enough opportunity for the improvement on brand margins - a key factor in reducing the price differences with Rolex. Another underlying argument is that this process will enable the exclusivity

The skeletal characteristics of these hominines suggest that their mode of locomotion was likely a cross between occasional bipedalism and obligate bipedalism. From the reading we have learned that obligate bipedalism is bipedal locomotion that is practiced all of the time while occasional bipedalism is bipedalism that is practiced on occasion. The ratio of arm length to leg length (longer arms) suggests that they did spend time climbing trees, however the cranial and post cranial traits of these fossils suggest that they spent much of their time on the ground and likely ambulating bipedally combined with a variation of upright walking and knuckle walking. This is evidenced by two factors: the fact the foramen magnum of the skull is centrally located, and the ratio of arm to leg length. In creatures with bipedal ambulation, the foramen magnum is located in the center of the base of the skull to keep the head aligned over the center of gravity of the creature. If the fossils were walking primarily with their knuckles, the

Paleopathological findings indicate the presence of tumors through animals well before prehistoric times. Steven Hajdu explains that written descriptions of cancer date back to the Egypt, Byzantine and other Indo-European civilizations where medicine men attempted to cure it using herbal remedies and did not hesitate to use concoctions of iron, copper, sulfur and mercury (1), elements known for its toxic nature. Failing to treat the diseases because of both the lack of knowledge of the human anatomy and DNA or proper equipment, they would claim that the wrath of God had struck upon the ill patient. Medicine Men of this time also did not strive to further study cancer since mortality rates were low due to lack of food, clean water and constant

Throughout this first chapter, I think that I already believe that I will enjoy this book. At the start however, the book could not be any more boring. Rocks, rocks, and more rocks was all I could think of. I have always been one to enjoy learning new things as long as they are interesting subjects, but learning about older and younger rocks, how rocks move throughout time, and what can be discovered from those rocks, that doesn’t sound too interesting. I did learn something though. It was no real surprise to me that you can get so much information from rocks once I thought about it, but how they do it still surprises me.

The author and his colleagues chose to focus on 375 million year old rocks in their search for fossils because amphibians that look dissimilar to fish were discovered in 365 million year old rocks, while fish without amphibian characteristics were discovered in 385 million year old rocks. Thus, it is possible that the evolutionary intermediary, or the “missing link” between fish and amphibians, would be discovered in 375 million year old rocks, between the two time periods. The rocks examined were sedimentary in composition, as the gradual and relatively gentle formation of sedimentary rock under conditions of mild pressure and low heat are conducive to the fossilization of animal remains. Sedimentary rock is also often formed in rivers and seas, where animals are likely to live. This site provides a resource that describes means by which fossils are formed and how the fossil record may be interpreted, and shows some examples of fossils demonstrating evolution through geological periods: http://www.fossilmuseum.net/fossilrecord.htm. In 2004, Shubin and his colleagues were looking for fossils on Ellesmere Island, in northern Canada. This location was chosen because of its lack of human development, as well as of obstructing natural formations and life forms such as trees, which

Some skills I hope to develop in participating in this experience are a broad understanding of how to conduct research, utilizing it beyond the college environment. In addition, I anticipate this will train and offer an in-depth knowledge of Paleobiology that a course and a textbook could not. One reason is that the research will be conducted in a laboratory that several professionals use that I would otherwise have limited access to. Obtaining this practice in a lab, I can utilize and engage in the concepts and principles of any scientific research, amplifying both my verbal and writing abilities in the process, accessing them in a future professional setting. Furthermore, participating in this research will permit me to analyze the influences of human activities on aquatic life with a Notable Professor who has recently obtained a Fellowship that has profited both his students and his own study, enabling them to research the northern Gulf of Mexico. These skills are just several I wish to emerge, however, I am optimistic that more will arise all throughout the research and whatever follows.

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Ancient life includes many creatures that lived long ago, including dinosaurs, as well as sea creatures, mammals and insects that are no longer alive today. Most were later fossilized, which is how we know they existed. Fossils were usually formed near water or in very wet places because sediment runoff buries the creatures quicker and allows them to fossilize quicker too. Also, softer creatures without bones and cartilage didn’t fossilize as often as creatures with skeletons. Many people thought that there were more animals in the sea than on land for a long time because there were more fossils from sea creatures than land creatures. That isn’t true though, they actually had a balance of creatures but fossils formed more often from water creatures

The realization of South America and Africa connect together like a puzzle is not the only fact that Alfred and some scientists now has found. In the article, The Distribution of Fossils and Plate Tectonics, it said that Alfred spent his life traveling around the world looking for fossil evidence to prove his theory correct because that is what was also recognized when he formed his theory. The article also mentioned that the evidence he established was “similar plants and animal fossils on the west coast of Africa and the east coast of South America.” Furthermore, other fossil evidence that was found about plate tectonics is how plant fossils “in the Antarctic and glacial deposits in the arid Vaal River Valley in Africa.” For example, in

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