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9:54:02 PM Distance learning technology makes classroom walls disappear
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The videoconference class, which is through the Milwaukee Public Museum, will be led by a paleontologist who will assign each participating school a nearby location that might have bones of a mammoth in it. With assistance from experts such as a ... [more]

8:35:19 PM SVP Honors Achievements in Paleontology
Newswise (press release) - USA

Newswise — DEERFIELD, IL (November 29, 2011) - The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology presented 19 awards in 14 categories earlier this month at their annual meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada. From student articles to digital modeling, the awards recogniz [more]

5:57:06 PM Is This Your Long-Lost Ancestor?
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Paleoanthropologists have lots of australopithecine fossils, and a wealth of later Homo fossils. But they have precious few clues about the origin of our ... [more]

5:05:48 PM Artificial 'brain' network hunts for fossils
Futurity: Research News

LOUIS (US) — Artificial intelligence is giving paleontologists a leg up in locating fossils—usually a task akin to finding the proverbial needle in a haystack. Traditionally, fossil-hunters have only been able to make educated guesses about fossil .. [more]

4:48:43 PM No bones about it, computers help out fossil hunters
Standard-Speaker - Hazleton,PA,USA

Computers are becoming increasingly handy in paleontology. For instance, scientists recently used Google Earth to help identify fossil sites in South Africa, where they unearthed an ancient relative of humanity, Australopithecus sediba . ... [more]

1:22:55 PM Paleontologist discover ancient whale cemetery in Chile
AssociatedPress -

In northern Chile, a team of paleontologists has unearthed an ancient whale cemetery filled with fossils dating back seven million years. The discovery of around 80 fossils was made just outside of the port city of Caldera. ... [more]

1:12:25 AM ASU study on Neanderthal extinction sparks interest
Arizona State University

Paleoanthropologist Bence Viola of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, was “intrigued” by computational modeling ... [more]

12:42:07 AM Inside the Columbian Mammoth, Signs of a Woolly Cousin
Wired News - USA

I thought that was the end of it, but then I met with American Museum of Natural History paleontologist Ross MacPhee in Las Vegas, Nevada at the 71 st annual Society of Vertebrate Paleontology meeting earlier this month. If new research being conduct [more]



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