For some reason this alternate account was also created for me.
My original account:
User:CougRoyalty
My old account was started up in 2008, but fell into disuse. I began using this current account in 2020 when I started up my wikipedia activity again. This new account was apparently accidentally created when I tried to log into my old account but forgot to capitalize the "R". Weird.
Coug = short for
Cougar. (See also
Washington State Cougars.) And then
Royalty, because... eh, I dunno... it was a while ago... (I don't actually belong to any royal family - at least that I am aware of...)
I am interested in evolutionary biology/paleontology, and I enjoy building
cladograms.
Created article for
Thescelosauridae (un-merged from
Parksosauridae), then participated in a discussion to merge Parksosauridae into Thescelosauridae
Bugs: (I know, very scientific term there...)
For some reason, I did a bit of work updating this obscure family of daddy long legs spiders (which apparently aren't actually spiders):
Sclerosomatidae
And here's the first new article I created with this account: Urocerus albicornis Yay! (I had a cool picture to go with it.)
Did some evolution info and cladogram work for
Psocodea (lice),
Paraneoptera (bugs), and related articles
Merged
Psocoptera with
Psocodea, then undid the merge, then updated info and added new cladograms, and did some work in the subgroups
Crocodilians - Did a lot of work updating evolution info and cladograms for all
crocodilians. This whole area is in flux and the science is disputed (although seeming to move towards a resolution). It is all because the paleontologists can only compare morphology of skeletons, whereas the extant biologists can also compare molecular evidence acquired through DNA sequencing. The dispute largely centers around the
gharial. It is so weird looking with it's long thin snout, so the paleontologists think it diverged from all the other crocodilians first and is the least closely related. However, DNA comparisons continue to show that the gharial emerged much more recently, rapidly acquiring it's unique features. And that it recently diverged from it's closest relative, the
false gharial, and that together, they are more closely related to
crocodiles than to
alligators. So here is some work I've done:
Created
Longirostres, the new
clade that show the gharial and false gharial more closely related to crocodiles than to alligators
Zagreus debate - And here was a fun and interesting debate about whether to include the Hades video game character in a popular culture section of the Zagreus article:
Talk:Zagreus
For some reason this alternate account was also created for me.
My original account:
User:CougRoyalty
My old account was started up in 2008, but fell into disuse. I began using this current account in 2020 when I started up my wikipedia activity again. This new account was apparently accidentally created when I tried to log into my old account but forgot to capitalize the "R". Weird.
Coug = short for
Cougar. (See also
Washington State Cougars.) And then
Royalty, because... eh, I dunno... it was a while ago... (I don't actually belong to any royal family - at least that I am aware of...)
I am interested in evolutionary biology/paleontology, and I enjoy building
cladograms.
Created article for
Thescelosauridae (un-merged from
Parksosauridae), then participated in a discussion to merge Parksosauridae into Thescelosauridae
Bugs: (I know, very scientific term there...)
For some reason, I did a bit of work updating this obscure family of daddy long legs spiders (which apparently aren't actually spiders):
Sclerosomatidae
And here's the first new article I created with this account: Urocerus albicornis Yay! (I had a cool picture to go with it.)
Did some evolution info and cladogram work for
Psocodea (lice),
Paraneoptera (bugs), and related articles
Merged
Psocoptera with
Psocodea, then undid the merge, then updated info and added new cladograms, and did some work in the subgroups
Crocodilians - Did a lot of work updating evolution info and cladograms for all
crocodilians. This whole area is in flux and the science is disputed (although seeming to move towards a resolution). It is all because the paleontologists can only compare morphology of skeletons, whereas the extant biologists can also compare molecular evidence acquired through DNA sequencing. The dispute largely centers around the
gharial. It is so weird looking with it's long thin snout, so the paleontologists think it diverged from all the other crocodilians first and is the least closely related. However, DNA comparisons continue to show that the gharial emerged much more recently, rapidly acquiring it's unique features. And that it recently diverged from it's closest relative, the
false gharial, and that together, they are more closely related to
crocodiles than to
alligators. So here is some work I've done:
Created
Longirostres, the new
clade that show the gharial and false gharial more closely related to crocodiles than to alligators
Zagreus debate - And here was a fun and interesting debate about whether to include the Hades video game character in a popular culture section of the Zagreus article:
Talk:Zagreus