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7:03:48 PM Do You Believe in the Threat of a Possible Next Mass Extinction?
SodaHead News

According to a recent USA Today report, a group of biologists and paleontologists warned in an article in the journal Nature that we may be at the front end of a sixth great die off. First the good news: we're at the very early stage of such a .. [more]

5:17:44 PM TED 2011: Hatching Dinosaurs, One Egg at a Time
Wired News - USA

Not if you're paleontologist Jack Horner, the inspiration for Neil's character, who is on a mission to bring dinosaurs back – or at least the modern-day version of one. Horner, curator of paleontology at the Museum of the Rockies and regent's p [more]

12:58:50 PM Ammonoids trapped parasites in pearls
Wired.co.uk

What these pits represented depended upon who you asked, but in 1960 the paleontologist Michael House proposed they were the traces of pearls. The pearl hypothesis was difficult to confirm. The indentations -- now called "Housian pits" by scientis [more]

10:55:25 AM Exhibit puts paleontology In perspective
Anchorage Daily News - Anchorage,AK,USA

A lecture by renowned paleontologist Daniel Fisher, the exhibit's guest curator and a member of the team that worked on Lyuba, will take place at 7 tonight in the museum auditorium. The talk is open to the public, but free tickets must be reserve [more]

9:01:05 AM Chromosome conundrum begs her to question "Y"
Denver Post

She'll present it at the University of Colorado at Boulder Museum of Natural History's Paleontology Hall Monday through Wednesday. The show — an "artistically wild, scientifically accurate movement/theater, performance piece" — is presented in . [more]

1:59:45 AM Donation made to keep digging
Energeticcity.ca - Fort St. John,BC,Canada

The North Peace Economic Development Commission is showing support for paleontology in the Peace with a large donation. On Wednesday, the Commission presented the Peace Region Paleontology Research Centre with a $5000 donation. ... [more]



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