Images for Chapter 18 Geography and Evolution

Australia

• The Wollemi pine of Australia. a living fossil.
  • Its significance
  • Wollemi pine and fossil
  • From the brink of extinction to your flower pot.BBC News OnLine.
  • Its secret location
  • King Billy, the largest individual Wollemi pine.

• Large Pleistocene horned tortoise from Lord Howe Island: Meiolania. Better than Figure 18.1.
• Marsupials of Australia
  • Tasmanian devil
  • Movie of Tasmanian devil
  • Marsupial "mouse" drawing
  • Koala drawing
  • Kangaroo drawing
  • Drawing of a numbat, an ant-eating marsupial
  • Marsupial biogeography. Figure 18.2.
  • List of Australian marsupials and ecological equivalents. Figure 18.3.
  • The thylacine of Tasmania ("Tasmanian wolf")
    • Tasmanian "wolf/tiger"
    • Image from another thylacine page
    • Historical photo of the thylacine
    • Historical photo of thylacine

  • Thylacoleo, the marsupial "lion"
    • Thylacoleo. National Geographic News 2001.
    • Discovery of new skull. Better than Figure 18.4.
    • Thylacoleo BBC News OnLine
    • Thylacoleo bite (painting)
    • Thylacoleo reconstruction

  • Dromornithids
    • Dromornis from Australia; ostrich for scale. Figure 18.6.
    • Reconstruction of skeleton of Dromornis
    • Genyornis chased by Megalania

  New Zealand

  • A 1250-year-old New Zealand Kauri tree

  • Kiwis

    • Three species of kiwi
    • Kiwi
    • Kiwi chick.
    • Kiwi on New Zealand coins

  • Moas

    • Moa bones.
    • Moa stamp, Afghanistan!!??
    • Moa stamp, Cuba!!??
    • Moa stamp, Laos

  • The takahe

    Takahe

  • The Kakapo

    • Kakapo.
    • Kakapo recovery program

  • Wetas

    • Weta cartoon
    • Weta photo
    • Weta photo

  • Tuataras

    • Tuatara
    • Tuatara head

  South America

  • The drift of South America toward a collision with North America. Figure 18.7.
  • Figure 18.8a
  • Diadiaphorus. Figure 18.8b.
  • Toxodon. Figure 18.9.
  • Glyptodon
  • Borhyaena. Figure 18.11.
  • Thylacosmilus. Figure 18.12.
  • Thylacosmilus skull. Needs fixing for brightness, color and contrast. Otherwise a nice picture!
  • Thylacosmilus skull with opossum
  • The largest rodent that ever lived (from the Miocene of Venezuela). BBC News OnLine
  • Its comparative size
  • The Great American Interchange. Figure 18.13.

  Africa

  • The drift of Africa toward a collision with Eurasia. Figure 18.15
  • An early African expedition uncovers an Arsinoitherium
  • Arsinoitherium skull
  • Arsinoitherium. Figure 18.14.
  • The exchange between Africa and Eurasia. Figure 18.16.
  • African elephant

  Islands and Biogeography

  Gargano

  • Where is Gargano?. Figure 18.17.
  • Hoplitomeryx. Figure 18.18.

  Giant Pleistocene Birds on Cuba

  • The gigantic Cuban owl Ornimegalonyx

  Madagascar

  • Skeleton of Aepyornis
  • Aepyornis
  • The giant lemur Megaladapis had a skull larger than a gorilla. Image from Duke University
  • Extinct lemur skulls compared with the living indri (bottom right): Image from Duke University

  Mauritius

  • The dodo of Mauritius.
  • Reconstruction
  • Reconstruction for a Laotian stamp.

  Page first constructed October 15, 2004.

  Page last updated November 7, 2004.

  Links last checked August 27, 2004.

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