Ancient DNA Sheds Light on Evolutionary History of Extinct ‘Horned’ Crocodile


An international team of scientists has recovered and analyzed partial mitochondrial genomes from 1,300-1,400-year-old specimens of Voay robustus, a recently extinct species of ‘horned’ crocodile that lived in Madagascar.

***

Read the rest of this article: 

http://www.sci-news.com/paleontology/voay-robustus-evolutionary-history-09598.html

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Back in Time – This Day in History – April 16

Image
1947: Grandcamp By Mick Ferris, Press Association, AP, UPI,  calendar.songfacts.com ,  classicbands.com  and  thisdayinmusic.com 1457BC: Egyptian forces of Thutmose III defeat a large Canaanite coalition under King of Kadesh at the Battle of Megiddo – the first battle recorded with a reliable account. 1346: The Serbian Empire is proclaimed in Skopje at an Easter assembly and Stephen Uroš IV Dušan crowned Emperor over much of the Balkans. 1521: Martin Luther arrives at the Diet of Worms assembly. 1705: Queen Anne knights Isaac Newton at Trinity College, Cambridge. 1746: The Battle of Culloden, the last battle on British soil: Royalist troops under the Duke of Cumberland defeat the Jacobite army of Charles Edward Stuart. 1789: President-elect George Washington left Mount Vernon, Virginia, for his inauguration in New York. 1799: Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Mount Tabor – Napoleon drives Ottoman Turks across the River Jordan near Acre. 1816: Lord Byron signs Deed of Separation dissolving
Read more

Back in Time – This Day in History – March 29

Image
1974: The Terracotta Army By Mick Ferris, Press Association, AP, UPI, calendar.songfacts.com, classicbands.com and thisdayinmusic.com 1461: Wars of the Roses: Battle of Towton – Duke of York defeats the Lancastrian army, deposes King Henry VI and proclaims himself King Edward IV. 1638: Swedish colonists settled in present-day Delaware. 1673: Charles II accepts the Test Act where Roman Catholics are excluded from public functions. 1795: Ludwig van Beethoven makes his debut as a pianist in Vienna. 1798: Republic of Switzerland formed. 1812: Lucy Payne Washington, sister-in-law of U.S. President James Madison, married Supreme Court Justice Thomas Dodd in the first wedding performed in the White House. 1827: Ludwig van Beethoven’s burial in Vienna. 20,000 attend. 1847: US troops capture Vera Cruz, Mexico. 1848: Niagara Falls stops flowing for 30 hours due to an ice jam. 1849: Britain formally annexs the Punjab. 1864: Britain gives the Ionian Islands back to Greece. 1867: Britain’s Parliame
Read more

Back in Time – This Day in History – May 7

Image
1915: Lusitania By Mick Ferris, Press Association, AP, UPI, calendar.songfacts.com, classicbands.com and thisdayinmusic.com 558: The dome of the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul collapses. 1429: The seige of Orleans is broken by Joan of Arc and the French Army. 1663: The Theatre Royal in Drury Lane London opens. 1718: New Orleans is founded by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville. 1763: Pontiac, chief of the Ottawa Indians, attempted to lead a sneak attack on British-held Fort Detroit, but was foiled because the British had been tipped off in advance. 1765: HMS Victory launched. 1789: America’s first inaugural ball was held in New York in honor of President George Washington, who had taken the oath of office a week earlier. 1812: Birth of poet Robert Browning. 1824: Beethoven’s 9th (Chorale) Symphony, premieres in Vienna. 1833: Birth of composer Johannes Brahms in Hamburg. 1840: Birth of composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky in Russia. 1866: German Premier Otto von Bismarck is seriously wounded in
Read more