Australia: The Land Where Time Began

A biography of the Australian continent 

Biology

 

Aerobacter spp. and cloud formation
Amphibians
Archaean
Evolution of Avian Reproductive Behaviour - Preserved Avian ovarian follicles
Microbial Carbon Turnover - High Rates in Sediments in Deepest Oceanic Trench
Biological History
Birds
Bird or Dinosaur
Botanical History
Cambrian Explosion -New Dates
Carbon Dioxide Sequestering in Botany Bay
Carboniferous
Cretaceous Australia
The Great Oxidation Event - Evolution of Multicellularity Coincided with an Increase of Cyanobacterial Diversification
Darwin's Visit to Australia
Deuterostome Relationships
Dinosaurs
Dicynodonts - mammal-like reptiles (therapsids)
Deuterostome Relationships
Devonian Australia
Dryland photoautotrophic soil surface communities endangered by global change
Ecosystems
Emu Bay Fossils
ERVs - endogenous retroviruses - and the evolution of mammals
Eukaryote Tree - Rooting by the Use of a Derived Gene Fusion
Rise of eukaryotes
Extant Phylogenetic Bracket (EPB)
Fauna
Fish
Flora
Fossil Eyes
Fossil Sites
Glacial Microbes – Their Power
Gorgonopsida
Haikouichthys and Related Forms
Ice Age Biotas
Jurassic Australia
The Habitats of Early Life – Processes on the Young Earth
How Life Controls the Atmosphere
Cephalochordates - Lancelets
Mass Extinctions
Massive Shifts in Evolutionary Dynamics Following Formation of Ancient Ecosystem Revealed by Deep Drilling
Matworld – the Biogeochemical Effects of Early Life on Land
Oldest Well-preserved fossils
Permian Mass Extinctions
Permian Mass Extinction - Marusek Hypothesis
Permian-Triassic Superanoxic Event - The Preference of Photic Zone Euxinia
Photic Zone Euxinia - Their role in Exceptional Preservation of Fossils Revealed by Biomarkers: An Organic Chemical Perspective
Protein Sparing
Possible Hominin Footprints Dating to the Late Miocene of Crete about 5.7 Ma
Origin of Paired Limbs
Reptiles
Silurian
Snowball Earth – Cooling Following Algal Rise
Southern Ocean Plankton
Stromatolites
Terminal Cretaceous Event
Therapsid
Triassic Australia
Tunicates - Urochordates
Vertebrate Head
Vertebrate Origins & Development - paedomorphosis

Sources & Further reading

Links

1. The origin of the Metazoa in light of the Proterozoic fossil record
2. The microscopic high-tech wizardry of bacteria
3. What queues up better than the British? trilobites!