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4:29:31 PM Never met a scientific illustrator? Meet Carol.
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Her work has appeared in numerous peer-reviewed journals and popular magazines, on the covers of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Cladistics, Evolution, and The International Journal of Plant Sciences, and in exhibits at Chicago's Field Museum [more]

4:29:31 PM An Inside Joke about Teilhard de Chardin
Catholic Culture - USA

A French Jesuit who dabbled in both paleontology and theology in the first half of the twentieth century, Teilhard wrote a variety of small books spinning out a bizarre theory of evolutionary spirituality which, despite a warning from the Holy See in [more]

4:15:58 PM Smile reveals 'missing link'
OneNewsNow - Tupelo,MS,USA

Paleoanthropologist William Jungers of Stony Brook “has seen the original fossils. He thinks [the hand is] 'an australopithecine hand in essentially all ... [more]

2:39:40 PM Paul Brinkman's The Second Jurassic Dinosaur Rush
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Anyway, the book being reviewed this time is Paul Brinkman's The Second Jurassic Dinosaur Rush: Museums & Paleontology in America at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. As you'll see, I thought very highly of it. This review originally appeared in ... [more]

11:36:28 AM Human Violence From 124000 B.C.?
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Credit: University of the Witwatersrand The Maba cranium is housed in the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology at the Chinese Academy ... [more]

7:40:24 AM Jurassic Park The Game Review: This Park Needs to Close
Bloody Disgusting (blog)

I wanted to be a Paleontologist, out scouring the world for fossils, and when Jurassic Park came out in 1993, it immediately became my favorite movie ever. At the time I didn't think any other film from then on could live up to that flick, ... [more]

4:17:55 AM Macalester scientist drills for answers
Minneapolis Star Tribune - Minneapolis,MN,USA

It was only when the drill bit fell inside that the Macalester College paleontologist realized the massive, sweet potato-shaped bone was hollow. The discovery, published today in the online journal Nature Communications, may help solve one of the man [more]

4:11:12 AM Digging up history UTM students discover for 'Discovery'
Weakley County Press - Union City,TN,USA

“A vast majority of paleontologists will go through their entire career and never find these,” Gibson said. The large fossils will be but a small part of the vast Natural History Gallery of Discovery Park of America, that will showcase roughly 4 1/2  [more]

3:59:00 AM Ice Age giants lurk in desert underground
Hi-Desert Star - Yucca Valley,CA,USA

Eric Scott, curator of paleontology at the San Bernardino County Museum, tells a Hi-Desert Nature Museum audience how he orchestrates digs for Ice Age fossils in the Upper Las Vegas Wash. YUCCA VALLEY — Eric Scott, curator of paleontology at the San  [more]

12:56:55 AM Pictures: "Gorgeous" Dinosaur Nest Found Full of Babies
National Geographic

The 2.3-foot-wide (0.7-meter-wide) nest is breathtaking, according to David Fastovsky, a co-author on a paper about the dinosaur nest published in the November edition of the Journal of Paleontology. Unlike other dinosaur nests found with fossil eggs [more]



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