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News From Wednesday, February 04, 2009
9:46:35 PM Jennifer Lopez beware! Remains of giant snake found
National Post - Toronto,Ontario,Canada

Team member, Paleontologist Jason Head of the University of Toronto Mississauga, called it a "mind-bogglingly big snake.” Jonathan Bloch, a University of ... [more]

8:28:28 PM World's biggest snake gives climate clues
EurekAlert - Washington,DC,USA

It's the biggest snake the world has ever known," says University of Toronto Mississauga paleontologist Jason Head, part of an international team that ... [more]

7:45:37 PM Largest Snake Rattles Paleontology
Scientific American - USA

In a study published in the journal Nature, researchers announced the finding of the fossil remains of the largest snake that ever lived--possibly reaching ... [more]

7:42:26 PM Fossil of 43-foot super snake Titanoboa found in Colombia
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA

Paleontologists are excited about the find because there are few fossils of tropical vertebrates from the 10-million-year period after the demise of the ... [more]

7:21:54 PM Giant snakes scary, but useful as climate calibrators
Science News - USA

15) and was unveiled at the annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology in October.— Sid Perkins Described in detail in the Feb. ... [more]

6:34:42 PM Trilobites: The Greatest Survivors in Earth's History
io9 - San Francisco,CA,USA

Examining the effects of climate change through the eyes of a geologist or a paleontologist shows that these changes have come before, and that they have ... [more]

5:47:44 PM Fossil of 2500-foot snake discovered in Colombia
USA Today - USA

LiveScience spoke to Jason head, a paleontologist from the University of Toronto Mississauga who was part of the international team that found the fossil. ... [more]

5:20:34 PM Scientists find remains of world's largest snakes
CTV - Canada

Paleontologists have named the snake Titanoboa cerrejonensis, which means titanic boa from Cerrejon -- one of the world's largest open-pit coal mines. ... [more]

4:51:59 PM World's largest snake discovered in fossilized rainforest
EurekAlert - Washington,DC,USA

.... staff scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama and Jonathan Bloch, curator of vertebrate paleontology at the University of ... [more]

4:38:44 PM Titanic ancient snake was as long as Tyrannosaurus
Reuters - NY,USA

"It is a mind-bogglingly big snake," paleontologist Jason Head of the University of Toronto Mississauga, one of the scientists, said in a telephone ... [more]

4:18:17 PM Early whales gave birth on land
Science News - USA

In that region, paleontologists have discovered many semiaquatic protowhales deemed to be charter members in cetacean diversification, including wolf-sized ... [more]

3:26:33 PM Fresno museum to display fossils found near Chowchilla
Merced Sun-Star - Merced,CA,USA

Rebecca says she wants to be a paleontologist some day. Abby was among 65 people who showed up for a talk by Fresno State paleontologist Niranjala .... [more]

12:21:04 PM Ancient snake fossil find in Colombia
Hindu - Chennai,India

"If it tried to enter my office to eat me, it would have a hard time squeezing through the door," reckoned paleontologist Jason Head of the University of ... [more]

8:09:12 AM Canadians Make Do
Press-Enterprise - Riverside,CA,USA

A wine-and-appetizer event begins at 6 pm as a prelude to a Western Center of Archaeology and Paleontology exhibit about music's role in Disney films, .... [more]

7:14:31 AM The Human Skull Evolved to Crack Nuts Two million year-old ...
Forbes

... more exciting results,” GWU researcher Brian Richmond, who is a paleoanthropologist and an associate professor of anthropology at the University, says. ... [more]

12:32:39 AM The Backward Whale
Glob smacked

As I detailed in my book, At the Water’s Edge, paleontologists began to document the transition whales made from land to see in the late 1970s. ... [more]



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