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Narrow-flippered Penguin
''Palaeeudyptes antarcticus'', also referred to as the narrow-flippered penguin, is the type (zoology), type species of the extinct penguin genus ''Palaeeudyptes''. It was a huge species, albeit probably with a large size variation. Although the size range can only be loosely estimated, the birds seem to have stood between high in life (''i.e.'' somewhat larger than an emperor penguin), placing this species and its congener ''Palaeeudyptes marplesi'' among the largest penguin species known. It was the last known ''Palaeeudyptes'' species, and although the exact time when it lived is not precisely determined, it may have evolved from ''P. marplesi'', or they might even have been a single species which slightly decreased in size over time. ''P. antarcticus'' was the first fossil penguin to become known to science. It was described from a single, slightly damaged, tarsometatarsus (British Museum, BM A.1084) found in the Late Oligocene Otekaike Limestone (23-28, possibly up to 34 mya ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Henry Huxley
Thomas Henry Huxley (4 May 1825 – 29 June 1895) was an English biologist and anthropologist who specialized in comparative anatomy. He has become known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. The stories regarding Huxley's famous 1860 Oxford evolution debate with Samuel Wilberforce were a key moment in the wider acceptance of evolution and in his own career, although some historians think that the surviving story of the debate is a later fabrication. Huxley had been planning to leave Oxford on the previous day, but, after an encounter with Robert Chambers, the author of '' Vestiges'', he changed his mind and decided to join the debate. Wilberforce was coached by Richard Owen, against whom Huxley also debated about whether humans were closely related to apes. Huxley was slow to accept some of Darwin's ideas, such as gradualism, and was undecided about natural selection, but despite this, he was wholehearted in his public support of Da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
