Mammals of the Ocean

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YouTube - Mammals of the Ocean: The Aquatic Ape...

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Hydrodynamics, speed and body form:
Water movements can shape fish evolution

Even fish must learn to swim efficiently:
Even Fish Don't Swim Well When They're Young

SCUBA & snorkeling aren't best way to census fish:
Overfishing And Evolution: Fish Fear Their Census-takers

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Sunshine in my eyes can make me ... cry? / frown? / yawn? / sneeze? / blink / ache?

Photic sneeze paper:
PLoS ONE: When the Sun Prickles Your Nose: An EEG Study Identifying Neural Bases of Photic Sneezing

[agbiv]

I always sneeze when going out into bright sunlight (in series of three). I also will yawn when I see another person yawn, or (YAWN) mentioning yawning.

[ReefTroll]

Apparently yawning is a not-so-forgotten-in-evolution human signal. it was (it is thought) to signal boredom rather than tiredness, and the whole "contagious yawn" was merely a signal of agreement, as in :

Cave-man 1 "Yawn" (Translated, I am bored, let us go and hunt for buffalo testicles.)
Cave-man 2 "Yawn" (I agree. And we shall be home in time for tea and medals.)

[agbiv]

You hunt for whatever you want! I take the rest of the buff.

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Surf & Turf: giant bulls & giant clams at the Eritrean coast 1ma

Steak Dinners Go Back 2.5 Million Years : Discovery News

(other thread refers to giant clam harvesting & hand axes found at Eritrean reefs)

Til recently people there lived in bays in domed huts on wood stilts there.
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Dead Sea Rift: Mediterranean diet in vogue 790,000 years ago
acorns, raisins, olives, carp, sardine, wild barley, crab, separate dining and food preparation areas

Spatial Organization of Fisher-hunter-gatherers at Gesher Benot Ya?aqov, Israel, 790 kya Anthropology.net

I'd bet they lived in beaver-lodge-like huts. No post-holes were found, so wood/reeds are more likely to have been laterally set and woven into a dome hut near the shore. There are both fresh and salt water springs there, at times it was linked to the Medit. Sea via Jezreel valley and Dead Sea via Rift valley.

[agbiv]

That "new" species of bull looks awefully like one of our Texas Longhorns!

[wet]

Yeah, sure does!

Bet the Gulf shore must have had some big shellfish & crustaceans too.

I've kayaked down the Rio Grande at the Big Bend from Lajitas to Lalinda and had a blast at the hot springs around Boquillas canyon, miss that place big time! Beautiful country, but treacherous (for a 'snowbird') away from water.
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This is where the 'longhorn' was found, in between a bay and the sea coast, some archaic human fossils were also found there.
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Buja+B...a+Buja&t=h&z=9

The place is called Buia or Buja Buja, reminds me of Booyah! Today the climate there is parched, but may have been have been more moderate back then with highland rivers flowing through to the bay. The area is north of Djibouti Bay and across the submersed land bridge from Arabia.

[agbiv]

Ah Big Bend--been there many times. Senior trip w/ brother & best friend. Most of that trip is best left in the past.

Several years ago with extended familes on both sides of our marraige AND I cooked Thanksgiving dinner over the campfire.

Yes, as a paleontology student years ago we found huge ammonites the size of gabage can lids, 1 m in diameter, and also many ox-heart bivalve mollusks the size of cabbage heads. Funny though, most of the oysters I've found are rather small.

[ReefTroll]

Originally Posted by agbiv

You hunt for whatever you want! I take the rest of the buff.

"OF" the buff? Pfft, I hunt IN the buff!

[agbiv]

So I guess bringing up the HUMP of the buff might send you into fits!

Really our First Nations (indigonous Americans) used ALL of the buff. PM me and I'll tell you what part war club handles were made from and what was the favorite part to eat first.

[wet]

Tropical warm-water oysters tend to be small; cooler water grows 'em bigger but slower.

Here's one found in my backyard (Humboldt Bay, Pacific Oc.)

Eureka resident may have found world's largest oyster - Times-Standard Online

Largest Oyster-Richard Mesce sets world record

I call it "bigfoot"

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Whale sneezes & toy helicopters
Whale Snot The Thoughtful Animal

[agbiv]

Were you the one who found the oyster?

I like the copter and whale deal yoo.