tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5460788270738656369.post2753661596786634606..comments2023-12-24T07:02:43.274+08:00Comments on Catalogue of Organisms: Life on Mars: the Cambrian terrestrial environmentChristopher Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11075565866351612441noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5460788270738656369.post-47565392662102391112017-03-02T14:09:14.686+11:002017-03-02T14:09:14.686+11:00Sorry that I failed to see your comment awaiting m...Sorry that I failed to see your comment awaiting moderation earlier. Thanks for the reference; I'll look into it.Christopher Taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11075565866351612441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5460788270738656369.post-5941209335764499932017-02-07T13:20:59.551+11:002017-02-07T13:20:59.551+11:00Retallack is not the most reliable source in the w...Retallack is not the most reliable source in the world for this topic, and these supposed fossils of his are likely abiotic origin. <br /><br />https://www.academia.edu/5063553/Jago_J.B._Gehling_J.G._Paterson_J.R._and_Brock_G.A._2012._Comments_on_Retallack_G._J._2011_Problematic_megafossils_in_Cambrian_palaeosols_of_South_Australia._Palaeontology_55_4_913-917anonymous129201https://www.blogger.com/profile/00786187384628971681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5460788270738656369.post-79656271433587180112011-11-22T09:23:31.552+11:002011-11-22T09:23:31.552+11:00The plant lineage was multicellular well before th...The plant lineage was multicellular well before they made it onto land. Phylogenetically, land plants are nested amongst the multicellular green algae known as 'charophytes' (in the broad sense).Christopher Taylorhttp://coo.fieldofscience.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5460788270738656369.post-62400464219726923702011-11-22T06:25:31.773+11:002011-11-22T06:25:31.773+11:00Now I find myself wonder whether multicellularity ...Now I find myself wonder whether multicellularity evolved more times on land or in water. I'd guess Eumycota has a terrestrial origin, while Metazoa has an aquatic origin, but what's the story with plants?Mike Keeseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00147156174467903264noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5460788270738656369.post-16882533405060265742011-11-18T02:51:36.613+11:002011-11-18T02:51:36.613+11:00"The question of when life first moved onto t..."<i>The question of when life first moved onto the land</i>"<br /><br />'Land' is here a bit of a relative concept, isn't it though? I mean, surely the immediate microenvironment of the very first, tiny organisms that left the sea would have been a film of water - meaning that they were still effectively aquatic?<br /><br />"<i>Farghera</i>"<br /><br />Out of curiosity, how should that be pronounced? When I see that word, I start thinking about how Goldmember pronounced the word 'father' in his (outrageously fake) Dutch accent in that third Austin Powers movie...Dartiannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5460788270738656369.post-36294744603400933512011-11-17T22:47:24.361+11:002011-11-17T22:47:24.361+11:00Perhaps it's me but "truffles in the Camb...Perhaps it's me but "truffles in the Cambrian" is an amusing thought.nnnoreply@blogger.com