Monatsarchive: September 2016

The Bronze Age feral goats of Majorca

Publiziert am 30. September 2016 von Markus Bühler

The last post covered the Cretan kri-kri, an extremely archaic feral domestic goat which still highly resemebles its wild ancestors. There are however also other, very primitive feral goats on other parts of the world, like the wild goat of … Weiterlesen →

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The kri-kri – a relict feral goat from the stone age of Crete

Publiziert am 26. September 2016 von Markus Bühler

Goats were after dogs most probably the earliest animals which were domesticated by humans. This happened around 13,000 years ago in the Near East, when people started to keep and breed wild goats (Capra aegagrus) instead of just hunting them.  … Weiterlesen →

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Swimming with the yellow-finned redfin perches of Lake Constance

Publiziert am 25. September 2016 von Markus Bühler

Last weekend I visited once again Lake Constance, the third largest lake of Europe, which  is located in the very south of Germany. The northern border belongs mainly to Germany, whereas the southern border belongs to Switzerland. There is even … Weiterlesen →

Veröffentlicht unter Fische, Naturbeobachtungen | 2 Kommentare

Acrophyseter robustus – a new macropredatory killer sperm whale

Publiziert am 10. September 2016 von Markus Bühler

I´ve been a big fan of archaic sperm whales since I read for the first time about Zygophyseter varolai in 2007. At that time, primitive sperm whales were still quite little known in general, and there were only a few … Weiterlesen →

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A new face for Dorudon – archaeocetes with stubbly beards

Publiziert am 4. September 2016 von Markus Bühler

As I already wrote a in an earlier blogpost, archaeocetes were most probably not the skull-headed pseudo-reptilian horrors as which they have  been usually depicted since Basilosaurus was discovered in the first half of the 19th century. Sadly this trend … Weiterlesen →

Veröffentlicht unter Paläontologie, Populäre Irrtümer, Säugetiere, Wale | 3 Kommentare