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Digital imaging technologies, such as high resolution X-ray computed tomography (CT), reveals interesting adaptations for an obligate aquatic lifestyle in living and extinct baleen whales (Mysticeti). In particular, digital reconstruction of the mysticete skull helps to elucidate the ancestral hearing physiology of living whales, as well as the timing of the evolution of baleen.
Steele/Burnand Anza-Borrego Desert Research Center 401 Tilting T Drive, Borrego Springs CA Eric Ekdale, San Diego State University |
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PLANTSThe presence of petrified wood scattered across the desert floor tells a vivid story of pre-historic woodlands in the distant past.
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PALEOCLIMATEThe climatic and environmental story told by the rocks and fossils of the Park begins about 7 million years ago in the Miocene.
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VERTEBRATESDiscoveries from the fossil beds of the Anza-Borrego Desert have contributed to our understanding of the evolutionary history of many vertebrate lineages.
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ROCKSA look inside the rocks of Borrego. Bright colors identify the components of this plutonic rock.
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MAMMOTHSThe climatic and environmental story told by the rocks and fossils of the Park begins about 7 million years ago in the Miocene.
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INVERTEBRATESMany of the species live today in the Gulf of California and a surprising number survive only in the Caribbean Sea.
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STRATIGRAPHYForces originating in the relative motion between the Pacific and North American plates are tearing the southwestern edge of North America apart.
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RECENT DISCOVERIESA fossil bird beak found in the 1960s has recently been re-identified as belonging to a “terror bird" - family Phorusrhacidae.
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EVENTSPlan to join us in October for our annual Open House, November for the start of our Certification Program, and at our monthly lectures from December to April. Read More |
