Fomenting Resistance To Tyrannosaurs

By Robin and the Honey Badger

LATERAL THOUGHTS IN SEARCH OF EVER MORE INTERESTING STORIES FROM BIOLOGY. Robin and the Honey Badger’s mission is to re-charge biology with originality for you, the non-specialist reader. Here we interview dinobacter, a bacterium that could have made all the difference to the ability of Triceratops to defend itself from tyrannosaurs. For, if there was a premium on keratin in a world of thick-skinned conflict, then only a novel fermentation could have recycled the supplies of sulphur needed to produce this most vulcanised of proteins.

EXPLORE THE BIO-EDGE FURTHER WITH ROBIN AND THE HONEY BADGER. Each morning Robin and the Honey Badger wake up to a world of Nature with new curiosity. Which aspects of the natural world have been underlooked? Which adaptations or non-adaptations of organisms have been downplayed because of some theoretical bias? Which observations have yet to be integrated because of interdisciplinary timidity? How laterally can we think as we cruise the bewildering diversity of life forms on Earth? Join us in our mission of Exploring the Bio-edge in a series of e-essays that fearlessly - but accurately - cover all corners of biology.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Robin and the Honey Badger
• Release date: Mar 1, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301915705

Robin and the Honey Badger

Robin Far from being a mere featherhead, Robin is a mainstream scientist operating at the centre of current environmental concerns. His work has three main components: primary academic research, environmental consulting, and entrepreneurship. He has authored more than 50 peer-reviewed scientific papers and book chapters in the fields of ecology and soil science. Robin’s light and curious mind achieves an avian mobility among the many fields of biological knowledge, making surprising connections and delighting in new perspectives. The Honey Badger Restlessly digging beneath the surface, the Honey Badger is in constant search for the honey of a more fulfilling biology that mines the common ground of apparently separate fields of academia. Performing research on several continents and across a broad spectrum of organisms from microbes to megaherbivores, the Honey Badger is the primary author of 35 peer-reviewed scientific papers and book chapters in zoology, botany, biogeography, and nutrition. An ecological theorist whose emphasis is on intercontinental comparison and original synthesis and integration, the Honey Badger has also published semi-popular articles on various biological topics in several wildlife magazines.

Book preview

�q��cbook_preview_excerpt.html�T�n�6��9��m��h�q�
Z���.�HIc�5�H�Z���{�%�F� [��X �ͼy��v1O9J�-��]�Q��R6�b�By�&I����c�|d���+�K�k*z��2��l�~��ݛzǑL�uc��%֚e��v�ng3���Ǜ��G�΄�,]eoi^.�-�ϭ�ȥFlQI���D�o�\&�"�\�G�͹�����/ކ?�T�
�"-�`�H)�;�Ve�=��Mj�s�t,�^]��([�yvp����Ǯ�M�i���I����N���*�i%���n�KĥȞ�᧐��iPAZ�I����t�$��yO����+���L�4����LJ�pt�0|��1q���w�&�j�hj&�(�C>��*�qT�����t�Bc ��d��:��H;w`�{\ª����\��V��^:�z�ݜ�DyǴ���OHUD�`5�.VV?Jԓ�F�i�QE6��ʵR)[�cM���h�dԭ�%�g=0]�SA����,��X�6O���\?�7w��K�<�����j�����e�`D����É�o��[�A��A�������~!Ȣ: ��h�4�Ěǀ;�b������m C�{�rT�հ��9��8_��G�`�W�)k��UQJ��auU��������Ǻ����=Ft�]3=m��3ș�
W� ���&fWu��p��Q��>� ������4%C�-�W.�h9��/?�� l.�p9��I���AX"p�)����[{px��A�Ⱥ����uA�]%

Enjoying the preview?

Subscribe to continue reading

Reviews for Fomenting Resistance To Tyrannosaurs

[Julien Benney · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This is an extremely interesting look at how Triceratops was able to gain sulfur on the extremely low-surful soils paleopedology suggests existed in the Mesozoic - by digesting extremely indigestible forms of keratin.

How other large dinosaurs were able to cope with what the (limited) record suggests were exceptionally poor soils on a global scale would be a fascinating thing to look at. I never imagined dinosaurs would do something so extreme to cope with lack of nutrients!