According to the fossil record, Lissamphibia, which includes all modern amphibians and is the only surviving lineage, may have branched off from the extinct groups Temnospondyli and Lepospondyli at some period between the Late Carboniferous and the Early Triassic.

According to Scott Simpson, the Gona Project's physical anthropologist, the fossil evidence from the Middle Awash indicates that both A. kadabba and A. ramidus lived in " a mosaic of woodland and grasslands with lakes, swamps and springs nearby ," but further research is needed to determine which habitat Ardipithecus at Gona preferred.

According to fossil evidence, the primitive ancestors of primates may have existed in the late Cretaceous period around 65 million years ago ; the oldest known primate is the Late Paleocene Plesiadapis, circa 55 – 58 million years ago .< ref name = ChatterjeeEtal2009 >

According to a joint research agenda conducted through the U. S. Department of Energy, the fossil energy ratios ( FER ) for cellulosic ethanol, corn ethanol, and gasoline are 10. 3, 1. 36, and 0. 81, respectively.

According to the famous DNA hybridization study into avian phylogenetic relationships by Sibley and Ahlquist, the split of the Procellariiformes into the four families occurred around 30 million years ago ; a fossil bone often attributed to the order, described as the genus Tytthostonyx, has been found in rocks dating around the Cretaceous – Paleogene boundary ( 70-60 mya ), but the remains are too incomplete for placement within the Procellariiformes to be certain.

According to Professor Lee R. Berger of the University of Witwatersrand, numerous fossil bones indicate some populations of Heidelbergensis were " giants " routinely over 2. 13 m ( 7 ft ) tall and inhabited South Africa between 500, 000 and 300, 000 years ago.

According to Renaissance accounts, gigantic, triangular fossil teeth often found embedded in rocky formations were once believed to be the petrified tongues, or glossopetrae, of dragons and snakes.

According to Thewissen et al., the teeth of pakicetids also resemble the teeth of fossil whales, being less like a dog's incisors, with a serrated triangular shape, similar to a shark's tooth, which is another link to more modern whales.

An in-depth mitochondrial DNA population analysis study stated: “ According to the fossil record, the Red Panda diverged from its common ancestor with bears about 40 million years ago ( Mayr 1986 ).

) According to Crabtree, et al., achieving a hydrogen economy requires deriving hydrogen efficiently and inexpensively from natural sources without using fossil fuels.

According to these discovered pieces, the tooth belonged neither to a man nor an ape, but to a fossil of an extinct genus of peccary called Prosthennops, and its identification as an ape was retracted in the journal Science in 1927.

According to some research, district heating with combined heat and power ( CHPDH ) is the cheapest method of cutting carbon emissions, and has one of the lowest carbon footprints of all fossil generation plants.

According to him Dr Hoffmann paid the quarrymen when they informed him of fossil finds.

According to a DNA sequence study, the ancestors of the gundis diverged from those of the Laotian rock rat around the Lutetian, some 44 mya ( Early / Middle Eocene ).< ref name = Huchon2007 > ( 2007 ): Multiple molecular evidences for a living mammalian fossil.

According to the original publication, the generic name Han is a reference to the Han Chinese, the largest ethnic group in present-day China ; and the specific epithet solo refers to the fact that the species is the youngest Diplagnostidae fossil found to that date, suggesting that it was the last surviving member of that family.

According to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the burning of coal, a fossil fuel, is a significant contributor to global warming.

According to a report by the assistant secretary for fossil energy at the U. S. Department of Energy, clean coal technology has paid measurable dividends.

According to fossil evidence, the species ' area in the warmer Atlantic period ( around 8000 – 5000 years ago ) of Holocene reached as far north as Denmark.

According to the Botanical Society of the British Isles ' most recent Atlas, there has been only one confirmed record since 2000.

According to his record, Joseph Smith, Jr. translated the Book of Mormon by gift and power of God through the Urim and Thummim.

According to his son, he did not fly combat missions during the Korean War, because he was recruited by the CIA for his outstanding record in single engine jet aircraft.

According to its first translator, it was written in Wroxeter by a Christian man called Vinisius to a Christian woman called Nigra, and was claimed as the first epigraphic record of Christianity in Britain.

According to the compilation hypothesis, the formulaic use of the word toledoth ( generations ) indicates that Genesis chapter 11, verse 27 to chapter 25, verse 19 is Isaac's record through Abraham's death ( with Ishmael's record appended ), and Genesis chapter 25, verse 19 to chapter 37, verse 2 is Jacob's record through Isaac's death ( with Esau's records appended ).

According to Bede, Justus received letters of encouragement from Pope Boniface V ( 619 – 625 ), as did Mellitus, although Bede does not record the actual letters.

According to the New Musical Express, The Stone Roses ' relationship with their future producer John Leckie was settled when they all agreed that " Forever Changes " was the " best record ever ".

According to Guinness World Records 2009, Led Zeppelin hold the world record for the " Highest Demand for Tickets for One Music Concert " as 20 million requests for the reunion show were rendered online.

According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Brando was paid a record $ 3. 7 million ($ in today's funds ) plus 11. 75 % of the gross profits for 13 days work playing Jor-El in Superman, further adding to his mystique.

According to the record label this became one of the reasons that the Pixies never achieved major coverage on MTV.

According to historians like Charles Perry, the Arabs adapted noodles for long journeys in the 5th century, the first written record of dry pasta.

According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the current record for the greatest distance achieved in hurling an object from a sling is:, using a long sling and a dart.

According to Stephenson the material the group was given was " very, very young pop " and included the song " We're Gonna Make It Happen ", a record that never came to light.

According to Timothy Insoll, " Figures record the exporting of 718, 000 slaves from the Swahili coast during the 19th century, and the retention of 769, 000 on the coast.

According to Yin Weixian, the Turkic runic inscriptions record a word uyɣur, which was first transcribed into Chinese as Huí Hé ( 回紇 ), but later, in response to an Uyghur request, changed to Huí Hú ( 回鶻 ) in 788 or 809.

According to the historian David Bates, this probably means that little happened of note, and that because William was on the continent, there was nothing for the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle to record.

According to the statistical record used by CricketArchive, Grace's final first-class appearance in 1908 was his 870th and concluded a first-class career that had lasted 44 seasons from 1865 to 1908, equalling the record for the longest career span held by John Sherman, who played from 1809 to 1852.

According to the record of the Silsilah Raja-raja Sulu, when Ong Sum Ping first arrived at Brunei with many Chinese, he said that he was ordered to collect jewelry in Sabah, and the mountain was named Gunung Kinabalu.

According to this record, Ong Sum Ping didn't become Sultan, but his daughter was married to the Sultan, and he became the Sultan's father-in-law.

According to an English record, the Scots penetrated four miles into England with royal banner displayed, and destroyed 3 or 4 little towers ( or Bastle houses ).

According to the Guinness book of records, Eugene Andreev ( USSR ) holds the official FAI record for the longest free-fall parachute jump ( without drogue chute ) after falling for 80, 380 ft ( 24, 500 m ) from an altitude of 83, 523 ft ( 25, 457 m ) near the city of Saratov, Russia on 1 November 1962.

According to sources such as the History of Bede, after the invasion of Britannia, the Angles split up and founded the kingdoms of the Nord Angelnen ( Northumbria ), Ost Angelnen ( East Anglia ), and the Mittlere Angelnen ( Mercia ).

According to Moe Howard's autobiography, the Stooges split with Ted Healy in 1934 once and for all because of Healy's alcoholism and abrasiveness.

According to the Dravidian scholars Bhadriraju Krishnamurti and Kamil Zvelebil, Kannada and Tamil split into independent languages from the proto Tamil-Kannada sub-group around 5th-6th.

According to the pianist ’ s son Dave Guaraldi, Vince was adopted by Tony Guaraldi, after Vince ’ s mother, Cannella Guaraldi, née Marcellino, split with his biological father, Vince Delaio ( sp ?).

According to the Centre for Geopolitical Studies, the Russian information campaign which the centre characterises as a " real mud throwing " exercise, has provoked a split in Estonian society amongst Russian speakers, inciting some to riot over the relocation of the Bronze Soldier.

According to a poll taken by USA Today in 2005, majority of Americans support affirmative action for women, while with minority groups though, it is more split.

" According to Mulvany, Viking metal draws heavily on sea shanties and media images of pirates and Vikings, and can be split into two types.

According to some glottochronological speculations the Eastern Baltic languages split from the Western Baltic ones between AD 400 and AD 600.

According to the West 7th / Fort Road foundation, St. Paul annexed the West Side, and was incorporated for two reasons: " to aid law enforcement -- criminals could escape St. Paul authorities by crossing to the West Side and Dakota County -- and to eliminate the Wabasha Street Bridge tolls which were inhibiting development on the West Side ..." The current City of West St. Paul split from the western half of South St. Paul ( thus the name West St. Paul was reused ), and was incorporated in 1889, just south of the city of St. Paul.

According to this theory, the ban on interracial marriage was issued to split up the racially mixed, increasingly mixed-race labour force into whites, who were given their freedom, and blacks, who were later treated as slaves rather than as indentured servants.

According to this classification, the dialects are split as follows:

According to legend, Termina was split into five areas by four magical giants that live in four regions of the land.

According to a carefully laid-out plan, they split up into two groups and attacked, armed with swords and bows.

According to Prof. M. Bumann, of the University of Lucerne, Switzerland, the cause of the split was the friction between conservatism and openness, hierarchy and democratization: " A spirit of openness, egalitarianism, and democratization pervaded the SG, embodying and giving new life to the idea of self-empowerment.

According to the book Tromsø City History () written by Nils Andreas Ytreberg ( 1896 – 1987 ) ( published in Norwegian ), during the mid-19th century, Balsfjord became the religious home of a group of " mindekirken " or " freechurch dissenters " who split from the state church parish in Tromsø.

According to Florian Cramer ( who didn't come into contact with Neoism until the late eighties ) one year later, Home took a sleep-deprivation prank played with him at a Neoist Festival in Italy as the reason to declare his split from Neoism ; Home insists he decided to break with Neosim before going to Italy.

According to Park ( 1998 ) the violence against Korean Americans in 1992 stimulated a new wave of political activism among Korean Americans, but it also split them into two main camps.

According to several molecular clock estimates the Viridiplantae split to into two clades: chlorophytes and streptophytes.

According to legend, the Calf was split from the Cow when the giant Rombald was fleeing an enemy, and stamped on the rock as he leapt across the valley.

According to founding member Frederic Heath, " the split ... disheartened many Socialists, so that the party grew very slowly.

According to reports of the time, Bowie killed all three men in a fierce battle in which Bowie used his knife to kill all three men: one assassin was nearly decapitated, the second was disemboweled, and the skull of the third man was split open.

According to the Financial Times, this " vote marks a turning point in the protracted battle over the law, which has split the software industry and sparked severe recriminations.

According to the finance director, Steve Hall the company had been quite profitable until 2004 when it was split between Dorrell and his brother.

According to Goodrich, both lineages evolved from an earlier stem group, the Protosauria (" first lizards "), which included some Paleozoic amphibians as well as early reptiles predating the sauropsid / synapsid split ( and thus not true sauropsids ).