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High Speed Suction Feeding: Bloopers Edition

Kevin Zelnio July 20, 2011 feeding fish High Speed Video jaw UC Davis Wainwright Lab

The Wainwright lab at my alma mater, UC Davis, is famous for posting their high speed video of fish biomechanics, in particular jaw morphology and…

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Easy Big Fella

Dr. M June 28, 2009 Age of Fishes armor Arthrodires computer model Devonian Dunkleosteus force fossil jaw Ohio placoderms predator shark

Way before even your great-great-grandpappy was born and Ohio was ocean instead of cornfields, it was the “Age of the Fishes”. During this Devonian (400-360…

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100 Word Post: Hurdia victoria

Dr. M March 23, 2009 Anomalocaris Arthropoda Burgess Shale Cambrian carapace claws Crustacea evolution fossil Hurdia jaw segmentation soft parts teeth

Anomalocaris ruled the Cambrian seas but apparently so did a twenty centimenter cousin. Hurdia victoria, originally described in 1912, was known from just a jumble…

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