From Monika Ryll, she says “This one is super relevant to third year Vertebrate Palaeobiology students http://unews.utah.edu/76-million-year-old-extinct-species-of-pig-snouted-turtle-unearthed-in-utah/ but it’s really cool as well.” Thank you Monika!
You can’t have failed to notice 2 current series on BBC at the moment – Autumnwatch http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0079t1p
David Attenborough’s new series, The Hunt http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0342j63
There is also an interesting article about it in the Conversation http://theconversation.com/the-hunt-a-natural-history-series-that-challenges-us-to-side-with-the-predators-49830
I also noticed that Charles Darwin and the tree of life is currently available in iPlayer, well worth a watch http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00hd5mf/charles-darwin-and-the-tree-of-life
Hugh’s war of waste is also topical at the moment http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06nzl5q and here’s a recipe from him too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WL-y55Gdx8o
For those of you taking Patterns of like, a useful chart http://www.usefulcharts.com/evolution-and-classification-of-life/
Predators make the world green http://alert-conservation.org/issues-research-highlights/2015/10/31/why-we-simply-must-have-predators
Rice was domesticated 3 times https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28433-rice-was-domesticated-three-times-across-asia-not-once-in-china/
Evolution can be fast http://phys.org/news/2015-10-chicken-reveals-evolution-faster-thought.html
Free textbook on history of genetics – http://www.esp.org/books/sturt/history/readbook.html
Free farmland bird ID guide http://www.gwct.org.uk/farmland-bird-id-guide-free-guide/
Plumage pattern of a dinosaur http://www.sci-news.com/paleontology/science-ornithomimus-dinosaur-ostrich-like-plumage-03388.html
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