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9:38:02 PM Island-opoly madness
Esquimalt News - B.C., Canada

In Island-opoly, Advance Token to St. Charles Place would become the much more awkward Advance Token to the Courtenay Museum and Paleontology Centre. .... [more]

7:38:02 PM Early humans' new face
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA

.... Africa that pertains to modern human origins," said Fred Grine, an paleoanthropologist at Stony Brook University and the study's lead author. .... [more]

5:48:02 PM Spread Of Modern Humans Occurred Later Than Previously Thought
Southwest Nebraska News - NE,USA

The other papers are written by human paleontologist Frederick Grine of Stony Brook University, geneticist Annamaria Olivieri from the University of Pavia ... [more]

5:13:03 PM T-Rex Coming to Wichita Museum
KAKE - Wichita,KS,USA

Ivan was discovered by Hell Creek Relics - a privately owned, professional paleontology company headed by Alan Komorsky of North Dakota - that joins a long ... [more]

4:53:03 PM Hofmeyr-Skull supports the "Out of Africa"-Theory
YubaNet - Nevada City,CA,USA

The field of paleoanthropology is known for its hotly contested debates, and one that has raged for years concerns the evolutionary origin of modern people. ... [more]

4:43:03 PM Ancestral beginnings, human relations and global citizenship
Toronto Star - Toronto,Ontario,Canada

Paleontologists, anthropologists and geologists have contributed to theories of human prehistory since the 1840s. Knowledge of evolution has given rise to ... [more]

10:18:02 AM Family fun
Salt Lake Tribune - Salt Lake City,UT,USA

DINOSNORZZZ paleontology classes, snacks, breakfast and movies are all part of a museum sleepover; Thanksgiving Point, 3003 North Thanksgiving Way, Lehi; ... [more]

7:24:36 AM Wabash president shares his favorite 'baby'
Crawfordsville Journal Review - Crawfordsville,IN,USA

"Bringing Up Baby" is described as "a screwball comedy, heiress Susan (Katharine Hepburn) is determined to catch a stuffy paleontologist and uses her pet ... [more]

6:49:37 AM Pack 55's Own "Night At The Museum"
Garden City News - NY, USA

The highlight of the evening was a "flashlight tour" of the Dinosaur Halls, complete with a paleontology-based scavenger hunt. Next the boys enjoyed "Cosmic ... [more]

6:19:36 AM Skull offers sign of migration from Africa
Monsters and Critics - Glasgow,UK

Until now paleontologists lacked fossils to test the geneticists` hypothesis that people of sub-Saharan Africa and in Eurasia at that time were on a par. [more]

2:43:07 AM Ancient tusk not so mammoth
MaineToday.com - Portland,ME,USA

Earlier this week, the couple took the tusk to the Maine State Museum in Augusta, where a paleontologist confirmed it was part of a pre-historic tusk. ... [more]

2:43:07 AM Ice age animals of Florida
Alton Telegraph - Alton,IL,USA

I entitled it 'Paleontologist Gets Plastered in the Field!' "The Historical Society folks who made up the program couldn't find the professional photo I ... [more]

2:43:07 AM Arizona gem-boree
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA

Fossils are a significant part of the gem and mineral shows, says Paul Caponera, an amateur paleontologist who lives in Mesa. He, too, sees familiar faces ... [more]



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