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News From Monday, February 27, 2012
10:58:43 PM Giant Prehistoric Penguin Reconstructed
History

Researchers have completely reconstructed a prehistoric penguin that stood more than 4 feet tall and would have dwarfed its largest living relatives, they reported today in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. Roughly 27 million years old, ... [more]

8:23:28 PM Skull of ancient horse discovered in China
Horsetalk - Canterbury,New Zealand

Dr Deng Tao, from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, said the species had ... [more]

7:36:45 PM Paleontologists reconstruct extinct, "elegant" penguin
Mongabay.com - USA

The bird, named Kairuku after a Maori word that means "diver who returns with food," was first discovered in 1977, but has only recently been reconstructed by scientists in a study in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. "Kairuku was an elegant bi [more]

7:36:45 PM Researchers get first full look at prehistoric New Zealand penguin
EurekAlert - Washington,DC,USA

The bones were collected in 1977 by Dr. Ewan Fordyce, a paleontologist from the University of Otago, New Zealand. In 2009 and 2011, Dr. Dan Ksepka, North Carolina State University research assistant professor of marine, earth and atmospheric sciences [more]

5:34:38 PM As climate warmed, early horses shrank
Futurity: Research News

Paleontologist Jonathan Bloch compares the upper jaw of the earliest known horse species (foreground) to the upper jaw of a modern-day horse. The scientists measured horse teeth that seemed to be too large for their age and became smaller through the [more]

3:43:37 PM Paleontologists Building Robot Dinos with 3D Printed Bones
IEEE Spectrum (blog)

Paleontologists have decided that they're going to try to build themselves anatomically correct and fully functional robot dinosaurs to investigate how the animals moved, and definitely not to enact any sort of evil world domination scheme. [more]

3:43:37 PM Indiana Jones meets Crocodile Dundee in crusade to protect Peru's fossil
Guardian - UK

The Guardian Carlos Vildoso, one of Peru's few paleontologists, says important fossils are being regularly looted from the country. "There is no control, nobody knows what is going out of the country, nobody know what is being extracted or exhumed, i [more]

2:06:51 PM Fossil Pongo showing different periodicity of retzius lines
PhysOrg.com - Evergreen,VA,USA

Paleoanthropologists from Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, examined the periodicity of ... [more]

8:49:27 AM Texas today: Cancer support group meets Tuesday
Killeen Daily Herald - Killeen,TX,USA

The speaker is Pamela Owen, a paleontologist with the Texas Memorial Museum. On March 8, "Family History of the South, Before and After Texas Statehood," will be presented by Diana Rendon. The library is at 207 E. Main St. in Florence, ... [more]



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