There are large gaps in the fossil record but the discovery of a proto-frog from the Early Permian in Texas in 2008 provided a missing link with many of the characteristics of modern frogs.

Early daily strips were large, often running the entire width of the newspaper, and were sometimes three or more inches high.

Early tetrapods were large amphibious piscivores.

Early Indian chintzes, that is a glazed calico with large floral pattern, were primarily produced by painting techniques.

Early public-key systems are secure assuming that it is difficult to factor a large integer composed of two or more large prime factors.

The period from 700, 000 – 300, 000 years ago is also known as the Acheulean, when H. ergaster ( or erectus ) made large stone hand axes out of flint and quartzite, at first quite rough ( Early Acheulian ), later " retouched " by additional, more subtle strikes at the sides of the flakes.

" Early redemption penalties " were ( and still are ) often based on a penalty of x months of interest / payment ; again no real bar to paying off what had been a large loan.

Early hominids likely possessed fur similar to other large apes, but about 2. 5 million years ago they developed a greater distribution of sweat glands that enabled them to perspire over most of the body.

Early humans became the only one of the 193 primate species to have fleas, which can be attributed to the close living arrangements of large groups of individuals.

During the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period, Flanders was characterised by the presence of large urban centres (...) at the beginning of the nineteenth century this region ( Flanders ), with an urbanisation degree of more than 30 per cent, remained one of the most urbanised in the world.

** Early IETF Proceedings ( note: large pdf files, one for each volume )

Early hunter-gatherers depended on the organized hunting of large animals such as bison and deer.

Early Mehrgarh residents lived in mud brick houses, stored their grain in granaries, fashioned tools with local copper ore, and lined their large basket containers with bitumen.

Early minivans models may be smaller than modern models, but still fit into the child subsegment ; the first-generation Renault Espace introduced in 1984 would be classified nowadays as a compact MPV, but later generations grew in size and the Espace is now considered a large MPV.

Early muskets produced large quantities of smoke and soot, which had to be cleaned from the action and bore of the musket frequently, either through the action of repeated bore scrubbing, or a deliberate attempt to create " soot grooves " that would allow for more shots to be fired from the firearm.

The RCA Service Corporation provided large numbers of staff for the Distant Early Warning ( DEW ) Line.

Early European visitors to Korea remarked that the land resembled " a sea in a heavy gale " because of the large number of successive mountain ranges that crisscross the peninsula.

Early signs of a peace dividend were visible throughout the economy — Sri Lanka has been able to reduce defense expenditures and begin to focus on getting its large, public sector debt under control.

Historically, Samaritans were a large community — up to more than a million in late Roman times, but were then gradually reduced to several tens of thousands a few centuries ago — their unprecedented demographic shrinkage has been a result of various historical events, including, most notably, the bloody suppression of the Third Samaritan Revolt ( 529 CE ) against the Byzantine Christian rulers, and mass conversion to Islam in the Early Muslim period of Palestine.

Early switchboards in large cities usually were mounted floor to ceiling in order to allow the operators to reach all the lines in the exchange.

Early drives used very large spools, which necessarily had high inertia and did not start and stop moving easily.

The isotopic composition of fossil soils of end Triassic and Early Jurassic has been tied to a large negative carbon isotope excursion ( Whiteside et al.

Early emperors however embraced the Legalist ideal as a way of exerting control over their large and growing territory and population.

Early file servers housed multiple CD-ROM drives, which were used to host large database applications.

Early sources are not clear but various groups of Christian communities would have had a group of college or presbyter-overseers functioning as leaders of the local churches.

Early in the 17th century, groups in the region rallied to Abd al-Karim, who overthrew the ruling Tunjur group, transforming Ouaddai in an Islamic sultanate.

In his book The Early Islamic Conquests ( 1981 ), Fred Donner argues that the standard Arabian practice at the time was for the prominent men of a kinship group, or tribe, to gather after a leader's death and elect a leader from amongst themselves.

Early modern era in Germany also witnessed the so called unehrliche Leute ( dishonourable or dishonest people ), an outcaste group.

It is estimated that Dioscoreales and its sister clade Pandanales split up around 121 millions of years ago during Early Cretaceous when the stem group was formed.

Early bassists for the group included Ron Crotty, Bob Bates, and Bob's brother Norman Bates ; Lloyd Davis and Joe Dodge held the drum chair.

Early in 1976, Hell left The Heartbreakers ; he soon formed a new group that would become known as The Voidoids, " one of the most harshly uncompromising bands " on the scene.

The Picts were a group of Late Iron Age and Early Mediaeval Celtic people living in ancient eastern and northern Scotland.

His accomplishments as Pope included the establishment of the Sistine Chapel ; the group of artists that he brought together introduced the Early Renaissance into Rome with the first masterpiece of the city's new artistic age, the Vatican Archives.

Early on, the group rarely sampled and rarely looped anything over their skeletal beats, and the funky minimalism of major producers, such as Timbaland and The Neptunes, is drawn from Run – D. M. C.

* The Early Dance Circle is an umbrella group for early dance in the UK

Early Dutch television series were Morgen gebeurt het ( tomorrow it will happen ), broadcast from 1957 to 1959, about a group of Dutch space explorers and their adventures, De duivelsgrot ( the devil's cave ), broadcast from 1963 to 1964, about a scientist who finds the map of a cave that leads to the center of the earth and Treinreis naar de Toekomst ( train journey to the future ) about two young children who are taken to the future by robots who try to recreate humanity, but are unable to give the cloned humans a soul.

Early issues featured two SF-themed stories aimed at a slightly older age group than 2000 AD and soon became a magnet for British creators who wanted to create comics for the adult market.

This is explained by author Tim P. Vos in his abstract “ A Cultural Explanation of Early Broadcast ” where he determines Targeted group / non-targeted group representations and also the cultural specificity employed in the television network entity.

** Early spring – Nicholas leads a group from the Rhineland to Genoa and Rome.

There is a history of pensions in Ireland that can be traced back to Brehon Law imposing a legal responsibility on the kin group to take care of its members who were aged, blind, deaf, sick or insane .< REF > THE IRISH CORPORATE GOVERNANCE SYSTEM AND THE ROLE OF IRISH OCCUPATIONAL PENSION FUNDS AS INSTITUTIONAL MONITORS-Lynn ( UCD PhD Thesis, 2005 )</ REF > For a discussion on pension funds and early Irish law, see F Kelly, A Guide to Early Irish Law ( Dublin, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1988 ).

Machaeridians are a group of armoured, segmented annelid worms, known from the Early Ordovician ( Late Tremadoc ) to Carboniferous.

The Heterodontiforms appear in the fossil record in the Early Jurassic, well before any of the other Galeomorphii, a group which includes all modern sharks except the dogfish and its relatives.

Early formal organizations run by converted Jews include: the Anglican London Society for promoting Christianity among the Jews of Joseph Frey ( 1809 ), which published the first Yiddish New Testament in 1821 ; the " Beni Abraham " association, established by Frey in 1813 with a group of 41 Jewish Christians who started meeting at Jews ' Chapel, London for prayers Friday night and Sunday morning ; and the London Hebrew Christian Alliance of Great Britain founded by Dr. Carl Schwartz in 1866.

Fragmentary remains from the Early Carboniferous of Canada have been tentatively assigned to the group.

Early sources are not clear but various groups of Christian communities would have had a group of college or presbyter-overseers functioning as leaders of the local churches.

Early members of his group included Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth, Page Hamilton of Helmet, and several members of Swans including Michael Gira and Dan Braun.

Early in 1986, the musical sitcom Kids Incorporated, about a pre-teen ( and later teen-to-young adult ) gang of friends who formed a pop group, mixing their everyday situations with variety-show and music video style performances.