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Sunday 13 March 2016

An exceptional fossil skull from South America and the origins of the archosauriform radiation

Birds, dinosaurs, crocodilians, pterosaurs and their close relatives form the highly diverse clade Archosauriformes. Archosauriforms have a deep evolutionary history, originating in the late Permian, prior to the end-Permian mass extinction, and radiating in the Triassic to dominate Mesozoic ecosystems. However, the origins of this clade and its extraordinarily successful body plan remain obscure. Here, we describe an exceptionally preserved fossil skull from the Lower Triassic of Brazil, representing a new species, Teyujagua paradoxa, transitional in morphology between archosauriforms and more primitive reptiles. This skull reveals for the first time the mosaic assembly of key features of the archosauriform skull, including the antorbital and mandibular fenestrae, serrated teeth, and closed lower temporal bar. Phylogenetic analysis recovers Teyujagua as the sister taxon to Archosauriformes, and is congruent with a two-phase model of early archosauriform evolution, in=read more =http://www.nature.com/articles/srep22817

Hitler was odd.

A new  found spy report by Dr Walter Lunger -ww2 =has some strange claims about Adolf Hitler .It is siad he carried out a poo fetish with his niece Geli Raubal  also in the report it says he was not capable of normal sex.

Pre-Meditated Violence Is In Brain?

It seems that part of the brain that forms the Ventromedial Hypothalamus- associated with the being satisfied,has an element of it that controls Aggressive motivation and provides the spark that ignites violence.

66 The World Cup In Real Time By Ian Passingham.

You can buy this book in hardback by Pitch Publishing for 14.99 .In this you can read a day by day account of meticulous research of World Cup 1966.


Missing lizard link?

A find of a fossilized lizard preserved in amber is believed to be up to 99 million years old.It was discovered several years ago in a mine -Myanmar South East Asia and only through using digital x -ray technology.this lizard maybe the oldest of its kind.

reglious subject

Arsenal 1-2 Watford sad day in history for an arsenal fan like me but well done watford

Watford stunned FA Cup holders Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium to book their place in the semi-finals at Wembley.
Odion Ighalo scored his first goal in 599 minutes to put the away side ahead early in the second half after Arsenal had spurned a series of good chances.
Adlene Guedioura then smashed home with the visitors' second shot on target.
Substitute Danny Welbeck scored with two minutes left to set up a dramatic finish, before missing the chance to force a replay from an open goal.
With Costel Pantilimon beaten after an Alex Iwobi effort had come back off the post, Welbeck could only stab the ball agonisingly wide as he struggled to keep his balance on the turn=.http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/35738604