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News From Monday, January 09, 2012
7:58:36 PM Charles H. Sternberg's Lost Dinosaurs
Hirshhorn

Last month, paleontologist Andrew Farke and colleagues described the previously-unknown, multi-horned dinosaur Spinops sternbergorum. The centrosaurine was a gnarly-looking creature and worthy of headlines by itself, but the real hook of the story wa [more]

7:58:36 PM 50-million-year old crickets with ears
Futurity: Research News

Insects hear with help from some very unusual ears, say the collaborators, paleontologist Dena Smith of the University of Colorado Boulder's Museum of Natural History and University of Illinois Professor Roy Plotnick. Grasshoppers have ears on their  [more]

4:53:17 PM Moon Mineral Discovered In Western Australia
RedOrbit - Dallas,TX,USA

An Australian paleontologist has discovered a mineral, long thought to be found only on the moon, in a billion-year-old rock formation in Western Australia. The mineral, tranquillityite, was first discovered by astronauts visiting the moon during the [more]

4:51:36 PM Did Bigfoot Really Exist? How Gigantopithecus Became Extinct
Hirshhorn

Scientists first learned of Gigantopithecus in 1935, when Ralph von Koenigswald, a German paleoanthropologist, walked into a pharmacy in Hong Kong and found ... [more]

2:08:21 PM Dinosaur footprints discovered in Beijing
China Daily

BEIJING - Paleontologists say several hundred fossilized footprints in a Beijing suburb are those of dinosaurs. The footprints, unearthed in a geological park in Yanqing county, are the first dinosaur traces the city has found, according to Zhang ... [more]



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