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News From Tuesday, February 28, 2012
10:20:25 PM Ice Age coyotes were larger than today's
United Press International

This skeleton is a composite from the University of California Museum of Paleontology. Credit: F. Robin O'Keefe. DURHAM, NC, Feb. 28 (UPI) -- Modern-day coyotes are pint-sized compared to their Ice Age ancestors and probably shrank due to dwindling . [more]

10:12:25 PM T. Rex's killer smile revealed
PhysOrg.com - Evergreen,VA,USA

But now a University of Alberta paleontologist has discovered that beyond the obvious difference in size of each tooth family, there is considerable variation in the serrated edges of the teeth. These varying edges or keels not only enabled T.rex's . [more]

3:29:32 PM Paleontologists reconstruct giant prehistoric penguin
Wired.co.uk

Paleontologists have constructed a model of a prehistoric penguin that stood almost a metre-and-a half-tall when it lived in what is now New Zealand, approximately 25 million years ago. Named Kairuku, a Maori word that means "diver who returns with . [more]

2:03:25 PM Paleontologists Become Latest Group of Scientists to Go 3-D
Castle Ink

Philadelphia, PA -- According to PC World, a a group of researchers at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA are now using 3-D printed bones for their work. In addition the bones themselves, the scientists are working with robotics to be able to ... [more]

9:21:53 AM Scientists find clue to Neanderthal extinction ?
Zee News

The research team has involved experts from a number of countries, including statisticians, experts on modern DNA sequencing and paleoanthropologists from ... [more]

5:59:39 AM Dinosaur National Monument Awarded Grant to Preserve Dinosaur Quarry,
OldWestNewWest.com Travel & History Magazine

OldWestNewWest.com Travel & History Magazine Noted paleontologist Earl Douglass started excavations at the site in 1909. He found numerous fossil specimens ending up in museums around the world. When excavations eventually ended, more than 1500 fossi [more]

2:22:13 AM What caused big coyotes to shrink to modern-day size
Standard-Speaker - Hazleton,PA,USA

"Coyotes in the Pleistocene probably hunted juvenile horses, juvenile llamas, juvenile camels and possibly juvenile bison," said researcher Julie Meachen, a paleontologist at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center in Durham, NC More science news  [more]

12:06:35 AM Honey, I Shrunk the Coyote
Wired News - USA

According to a monograph on the site I picked up from the Page Musuem gift shop – written by paleontologist Chester Stock and later revised by John Harris – coyotes are regularly found in the asphalt and are about one-eight as numerous as their ... [more]



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