Mammalodon colliveri

Mammalodon colliveri http://bit.ly/7SBsqZ: Ancient toothed-whale recently hypothesized to have subsisted by sucking mud from the sea bottom.


FOM: Mammalodon colliveris (in visWiki)

Ancient whale sucked mud for food

Australian Fossil Unlocks Secrets to the Origin of Whales

Erich M.G. Fitzgerald. The morphology and systematics of Mammalodon colliveri (Cetacea: Mysticeti), a toothed mysticete from the Oligocene of Australia. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2010; DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00572.x

The morphology and systematics of Mammalodon colliveri (Cetacea: Mysticeti), a toothed mysticete from the Oligocene of Australia
ERICH M. G. FITZGERALD 1,2,3 *
1 School of Geosciences, Monash University, Victoria 3800, Australia 2 Museum Victoria, GPO Box 666, Melbourne, Victoria 3001, Australia 3 Division of Mammals, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, NHB MRC 108, PO Box 37012, Washington, DC 20013-7012, USA
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

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Conalateral or Conulateral

Conalateral / Conulateral: The conceptual collision arising from Biolateral and conundrum with conative. As mentioned in our Biolateral (posting), how does society then support the individuals facing reduced or non-existent income due to reduced fishing and stocks or an outright ban? Would society offer them permanent unemployment insurance as a collateral consequence of these/this actions? The conundrum here is how to meet these needs...

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FOM: Cap-and-Trade for Seafood Industry May be Next, Tuna ban 'justified' by science, Sea Fish in Decline, ShrimpSuck.org, Greenpeace Oceans and Depleting Marine Stocks.

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Updated: Friday, December 11, 2009.

Biolateral

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Biolateral: The conceptual collision of biology and collateral. The growing (?) awareness that humanity had better start treating the world's depleting stocks of food organisms (tuna, cod, shrimp...) like a form of collateral - to be used only in preciously allotted quantities at a time. Or else... those stocks may not be available for use and consumption at a future time...as well as those organisms that are associated with them...

BOYCOTT Tuna.

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FOM: Cap-and-Trade for Seafood Industry May be Next , EU: bluefin tuna catches to be reduced, Tuna body shies from fishing ban, Fishing body agrees to cut in Atlantic tuna quota (REUTERS),,Tuna ban 'justified' by science, Sea Fish in Decline, ShrimpSuck.org, Greenpeace Oceans, US Requests Talks With Mexico Over Tuna Dispute , 'Last chance' for tuna authority, International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas and Depleting Marine Stocks.

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Revised/Updated: Sunday, November 8, 2009. Tuesday, November 10, 2009. Monday, November 16, 2009. Friday, December 11, 2009.