Tag: carnivores
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CBC Quirks & Quarks: Megalodon was enormous — but perhaps less husky than we’d thought
CBC Radio’s Quirks & Quarks has a segment about megalodon. A new paper in the journal Palaeontologia Electronica reveals that may not have been as robust as previously thought. The extinct shark megalodon was likely the largest predatory shark to ever swim the oceans, but a new reconstruction suggests it was not quite the behemoth…
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PBS Eons: How Plants Became Carnivores
There’s a new episode of PBS Eons on Youtube. This one is about how carnivorous plants evolved. Go check out Overview on PBS Terra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHMZw… Deep Look’s episode on Sundews! https://youtu.be/D4kBrsyWhS4 How and why does botanical carnivory keep evolving? It turns out that when any of the basic things that most plants need aren’t…
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The Rise of Meat-Eating Dinosaurs Is More Complicated Than We Thought
Smithsonian Magazine has an interesting piece about carnivorous dinosaurs. The evolution of large meat eating dinosaurs is a long and complicated story. Dinosaurs evolved around 235 million years ago. At that time, they were lanky and small. One of the largest early meat eaters was Herrerasaursus. It was about 16 feet long and lived in…
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PBS Eons: When Giant Hypercarnivores Prowled Africa
There’s a new episode of PBS Eons. This one is about the giant carnivores of Africa. These hyaenodonts gave the world some of its largest terrestrial, carnivorous mammals ever known. And while these behemoths were the apex predators of their time, they were no match for a changing world.
