The Sarcopterygii, or lobe-finned fishes, is a clade containing the coelacanths, lungfishes, tetrapods, and their fossil relatives, including the osteolepiformes and panderichthyids. They are the ...

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William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853-1942) first went to Egypt in 1880 at the age of 26, to survey the Great Pyramid. For the next five decades he was at the forefront of the development of ...

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Most chondrichthyans are marine species. Only 5% (approximately 45 species) are restricted to freshwater, such as the giant freshwater stingray, Himantura chaophraya (Fowler et al., 2005; Helfman et ...

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Most caecilians inhabit moist tropical and subtropical regions of South and Central America, South and Southeast Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa. A single species inhabits Trinidad & Tobago. Almost all ...

Transliteration after Helck 1970, using the copy on Papyrus Hermitage 1116B as principal source. The section divisions are those of Helck 1970: after each section ...

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Here's the big idea. Maths is difficult in part because of the language in which it is expressed. Can we find a different language – and set of ideas and approaches – that is more open, more ...