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9:53:15 PM Sivatherium: A giraffe with a trunk?
ScienceBlogs - USA

Sivatherium was first scientifically described in 1836 by the English paleontologists Hugh Falconer and Proby Thomas Cautley. Its bones had come from the ... [more]

5:41:11 PM Museum lecture traces historic Beagle voyage
ScienceBlogs - USA

Join Museum paleontologist and science historian Paul Brinkman for a free presentation titled "Charles Darwin's Beagle Voyage and the Origin of 'The Origin. ... [more]

5:19:32 PM Weekend Briefing
Mother Nature Network - Atlanta,GA,USA

(Source: Los Angeles Times) CROCODILE SHOCK: Africa was teeming with at least five very different crocodile species 100 million years ago, paleontologists ... [more]

1:53:05 PM Make-A-Wish Foundation sends dinosaur fan on fossil dig
Hagerstown Morning Herald - Hagerstown,MD,USA

“I like everything science,” said JC, who wants to be a paleontologist some day. Paleontologist Jerry Jacene, who lives in Tennessee and had planned to ... [more]

12:45:22 PM Evangelicals Give Away 170000 Copies of Darwin's Book With 'Special ...
CNSNews.com - Alexandria,VA,USA

Comfort also quotes Harvard paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould as follows: “The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the ... [more]

7:32:06 AM Former reptile wrangler now wins awards for fossil photos
Montana State University - United States

Paleontologists observed the animals to gain insights into dinosaurs. With the reptiles long gone, Lamm is now devoted full-time to paleohistology in the ... [more]

6:42:11 AM Emory Reacts to Anti-Evolution Books
The Emory Wheel - USA

paleontologist, evolutionary biologist and self-proclaimed Darwinist Stephen Jay Gould is quoted as saying in the introduction. The quote comes from Gould's ... [more]

6:41:44 AM Staff writer reviews "Time Great Discoveries: Explorations That Changed
The Free Lance-Star

The Free Lance-Star Now the editors of Time magazine have sought out the latest, most exciting discoveries in archaeology, astronomy, geography and paleontology to create .... [more]

3:29:06 AM More Scientists Treat Experiments as a Team Sport
Wall Street Journal - USA

In that spirit, paleontologist Michael Taylor at the University College London recently set up the Open Dinosaur Project, encouraging volunteers to create ... [more]

2:40:13 AM The mystery of the mastodons gets a few big clues
Christian Science Monitor - USA

It neatly sidesteps a significant challenge paleontologists studying this issue face: "There is lack of sufficient numbers of well-dated vertebrate fossils, ... [more]

2:34:57 AM Dinosaur finds could change thinking on migration
Salt Lake Tribune - Salt Lake City,UT,USA

MikeGetty, collections manager of paleontology at the Museum of Natural History who led teams uncovering the bones, described the site as the richest one so ... [more]

12:30:33 AM The hobbit emerges as a distinct human relative, study contends
Medill Reports - DC,USA

His research is focused in functional morphology, paleoanthropology and primate evolution. “I'd like to think our study goes a long way that pathology can't ... [more]

12:10:30 AM Extra, Extra
Chicagoist

University of Chicago paleontologist Paul Sereno and his partner - Hans Larsson of McGill University in Montreal - gave the world our first glimpse at their ... [more]



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