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News From Thursday, October 16, 2008
9:46:07 PM Paleontologist to lecture Saturday
Charleston Post Courier - Charleston,SC,USA

Shubin has been one of the major forces behind a new evolutionary synthesis of expeditionary paleontology, developmental genetics and genomics. ... [more]

9:35:28 PM First CT scans confirm lambeosaur brain capacity
Youngstown Vindicator - Youngstown,OH,USA

“The animals could both produce and hear the sounds,” and had the brainpower to process them, said Ohio University paleontologist Larry Witmer, who directed ... [more]

5:08:02 PM Ancient Fish Heads for Land
Science Now - Washington,DC,USA

Now an analysis by paleontologist Jason Downs of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and colleagues shows how the braincase was ... [more]

2:12:37 PM Lakusta’s discovery one of great pride for the community
Encore - Grande Prairie,AB,Canada

It is mind boggling to realize that for centuries paleontologists all over the world would pronounce the specific name and, yet, not really know the man in ... [more]

1:16:43 PM Fossil find may document largest snake
Science News - USA

So far, the paleontologists haven’t unearthed any mammal fossils at the site, so it’sa mystery as to what these creatures preyed upon. [more]

12:45:50 PM Bolivar man says his elephant keepsakes will wash up
Houston Chronicle - Houston,TX,USA

By DIANA HEIDGERD AP Brian Sattler AP Jim Westgate, a Lamar University paleontologist, displays a fossil mammoth tooth that he found on the Bolivar ... [more]

10:11:13 AM Richard Leakey lectures on our origins
UNCW Seahawk - Wilmington,NC,USA

Leakey was born into the family of very successful paleoanthropologists, Dr. Louis B. and Mary Leakey. From an early age, Leakey was aware that he did not ... [more]

7:32:06 AM Crested Dinosaurs Had Brains Designed for Talking
io9 - San Francisco,CA,USA

But today a group of Canadian and US researchers present their latest findings about the lembeosaurus at the Society for Vertebrate Paleontology in Ohio ... [more]

7:11:19 AM A Light, Quick, Killing Machine
Smithsonian - USA

As paleontologists studied the bones they saw curious features that are also seen in birds, like parts of the vertebrae that looked like they had been ... [more]

6:52:25 AM Duck-Billed Dinosaurs Emitted Low, Eerie Sounds
Discovery Channel - USA

.... bellowing calls, suggest the new findings which will be presented today at the annual meeting of the Society for Vertebrate Paleontology. ... [more]

5:58:46 AM Brain structure provides key to unraveling function of bizarre ...
EurekAlert - Washington,DC,USA

At the annual meeting of the Society for Vertebrate Paleontology in Cleveland, Ohio, on Oct. 16, the team will present new study findings that suggest the ... [more]

5:01:41 AM New book showcases visuals behind Walking With Dinosaurs
The List - UK

The digital effects wizards who created images to accompany the BBC’s Walking With Dinosaurs series have got together with Ross Geller-style paleontologist ... [more]

2:29:34 AM Scientists say fossil shows transition from water to land
Cleveland Plain Dealer - Cleveland,OH,USA

.... today in Nature and discussed them publicly during a symposium at this Wednesday's meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology in Cleveland. .... [more]

12:08:18 AM Out of Africa, Across a Wet Sahara
Science Now - Washington,DC,USA

Chris Stringer, a paleoanthropologist at the Natural History Museum in London, says that the new work "highlights the importance of trans-Sahara corridors ... [more]



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