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News From Monday, December 22, 2008
11:52:17 PM KU researcher detects missing link in spider evolution
Lawrence Journal World - Lawrence,KS,USA

Paul Selden, the director of KU’s Paleontological Institute at the Biodiversity Institute and professor of invertebrate paleontology, found a new kind of ... [more]

10:33:53 PM Spinning Spigots: 'Missing Link' in Spider Evolution Discovered
Newswise (press release) - USA

New finds near the same location, in Gilboa, New York, caused the paleontologists to reinterpret their original findings. The new fossils included ... [more]

10:18:44 PM A T. rex named Sue stomping into Science Center
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch - St. Louis,MO,USA

.... Sue has enlightened us to additional anatomical features of T. rex," said Stephanie Kuster, paleontologist at Washington University in St. Louis. ... [more]

9:47:21 PM Can Evolution Reverse Itself? Biologists Reaffirm Century-old Law
Newswise (press release) - USA

Nineteenth-century Belgian paleontologist Louis Dollo argued that once natural selection for a complex functional trait is relaxed -- such as when a species ... [more]



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