Domesticated Animals from Earliest Times, by Juliet Clutton-Brock. Heinemann/British Museum (Natural History), £9.95.

Professor John Clutton Brock

for John Clutton-Brock, the subject became a consuming interest and occupied more and more of his time in general practice. Although self taught in the main, clearly he was very good at it and his skills were held in very high esteem for he was soon appointed as one of the first consultant anaesthetists at Lincoln County Hospital, shortly after the introduction of the NHS. A few years later he ...

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Arthrodires were predatory vertebrates of the Devonian seas, with simple lower jaws conducible to examination of feeding across growth, evolution, and local diversity. 2D finite element analyses (FEA) of arthrodire mandibles (scaled to equivalent length and force, and checked against a 3D control), and a new method of stress integration, enable extensive comparisons of bite stress. FEA indicate...

The Cleveland Museum of Natural History

A small sample of hyracoid fossils from the late Miocene (,6.1 Ma) deposits at Lemudong’o, Narok, Kenya, belong to Dendrohyrax. This genus was unknown in the fossil record until recently, when almost simultaneously it was discovered at Lukeino (6 Ma) and Lemudong’o, both in Kenya. The fossils from Lemudong’o belong to a small species of the genus, not very different from Dendrohyrax validus. Th...

The Cleveland Museum of Natural History

The Cleveland Museum of Natural History’s skull of a small tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaur (CMNH 7541) collected from the Hell Creek Formation has sparked controversy, with competing hypotheses suggesting that it represents a separate taxon of dwarf tyrannosaurid (Nanotyrannus lancensis), a juvenile specimen of Tyrannosaurus rex (the only other acknowledged Hell Creek tyrannosaurid), or a compr...