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Carnivore Conservation edited by J.L. Gittleman, S.M. Funk, D ...
They are not particularly diverse, have shown periods of very high extinction rates with repeated taxonomic replacement (especially to fill the hypercarnivore morphotype, or the 'cat ...
http://www.mjkelly.info/enigma.pdf
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Prehistoric bears also ate everything and anything
The short-faced bear, a hypercarnivore, also ate plants depending on their availability. The work offers key insights into the evolution of the carnivore niches during the Ice Age.
http://www.physorg.com/pdf158489644.pdf
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Evolution of hypercarnivory: the effect of specialization on ...
Hypercarnivore Disparity Sister group Disparity Felidae 46.20 Hyaenidae 116.66 Hyaenidae: Chasmaporthetes / Lycyaena / Hyaenictis 44.91 Hyaenidae: Crocuta / Palinhyaena 109.95 Nimravidae 90.65 ...
http://bio.fsu.edu/%7Esteppan/Holliday_and_Steppan.pdf
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An archaic crested plesiosaur in opal from the Lower Cretaceous high ...
... neck, gigantism) typically characterizing many more derived Jurassicrhomaleosaurids; thus, reinforcing the suspected convergent evolution of the 'pliosauromorph'hypercarnivore body ...
http://www.plesiosaur.com/database/pdf/Kear%20et%20al.%202006-BL%20Umoonasaurus.pdf
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Poster Session I (Wednesday)
A previous study of the evolution and effects of specialization to the hypercarnivore morphotype compared levels of morphological diversity between hypercarnivores and their ...
http://www.oucom.ohiou.edu/dbms-witmer/Downloads/2007_Holliday&Witmer_SVP_abstract.pdf
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Molecular systematics of the Hyaenidae: Relationships of a relictual ...
At the other extreme is the spotted hyena, Crocuta crocuta , a large (40-86kg) cursorial hypercarnivore that uses robust premolars to crush bones, which are then ingested.
http://www.pucrs.br/fabio/genoma/index_arquivos/artigos_eduardo/Hyaenidae.pdf
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Human/carnivore interaction in the Middle Pleistocene of Latium ...
After Palmqvist et al. the sabre-tooth felid Megantereon played a significant role in Late Villafranchian Eurasia, as this hypercarnivore supposedly produced large numbers of carcasses
http://www.sovraintendenzaroma.it/content/download/4747/62221/file/67_75.pdf
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A complete skull of Chasmaporthetes lunensis (Carnivora, Hyaenidae ...
... hyaenas", species of Chasmaporthetes differ from all other large Pliocene and Pleistocene hyaenids in a series of morphological features indicative of a more hypercarnivore diet and ...
http://estudiosgeol.revistas.csic.es/index.php/estudiosgeol/article/viewFile/32/31
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Ecological patterns in the trophic-size structure of large mammal ...
Finally, the number of hypercarnivore and bone-cracking species is inversely correlated with tree coverage in the habitat. The aim of this paper is to determine whether the trophic ...
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/EEB/Janis_abstracts/Mendoza_et_al._05.pdf
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Lost in Translation from Genes to Organisms
Animal-omnivore Plant-omnivore Hypercarnivore Herbivore Carnivore 37 patches 257 patches Ailuropoda melanoleuca Felis silvestris 122 patches 241 patches Hydromys chrysogaster Mallomys ...
http://carbon.videolectures.net/2006/pascal/pmsb06_tuusula/jernvall_jukka/pmsb06_jernvall_ltgo_01.pdf
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