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8:38:34 PM Newly Described Bird-like Dinosaur Predates Archaeopteryx by 63 Million
ScienceBlogs - USA

ScienceBlogs (blog) "Many dinosaurs are very bird-like and early birds are dinosaur-like," observes Xing Xu from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology ... [more]

7:19:17 PM What Don DeLillo's Books Tell Him
Wall Street Journal - USA

"Point Omega" takes its title from the Omega Point—a concept coined by the French paleontologist and Jesuit philosopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, ... [more]

1:37:23 PM New Tyrannosaur Had More Teeth Than T. Rex
Discovery News

Remains of the badlands dinosaur, Bistahieversor sealeyi, were collected in the first paleontological excavation from a federal wilderness area, ... [more]

10:53:40 AM Female fossil hunter led to creation of paleontology
Winnipeg Free Press - Winnipeg,Manitoba,Canada

Emling reports that several scientists credit her with discoveries that led to the creation of paleontology as a discipline. In fact, they also led to the ... [more]

7:48:51 AM Dinosaur True Colors Revealed for First Time
National Geographic

But until now no one had found the pigments in dinosaurs—other than birds, which many paleontologists consider to be dinosaurs. ... [more]

7:30:33 AM Fossil find in China boosts dinosaur-bird link
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA

Choinere's colleagues on the four-year series of expeditions include James M. Clark, professor of biology and paleontology at the university, and Xu Xing, ... [more]

6:28:11 AM Feature story: A lifetime of scaled adventures
Palo Alto Online - Palo Alto,CA,USA

In 1969, he received a grant from renowned paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey to study and record the fauna of northern Kenya, which no one had yet recorded ... [more]

3:52:36 AM In the News:
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA

Coauthor Larry Martin, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology in the University of Kansas' paleontology division, said that the study strongly ... [more]

1:01:28 AM University Women of West Essex -- Speaker to discuss fossils
Randolph Reporter - Bernardsville,NJ,USA

Castleman is from Lodi, teaches geology and paleontology for the Gifted Child Society and is a board member of the North Jersey Mineralogy Society. [more]



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