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News From Tuesday, March 06, 2012
11:22:48 PM Natural Life of the Lost Coast: goat Skull
Redwood Times - Garberville,CA,USA

Teeth are very popular with mammalian paleontologists. Not only are they the most frequent fossil found (because teeth are very durable), but also because they can identify the type of mammal. Ancestral mammals had 44 teeth: from front to back one si [more]

6:20:56 PM Human origins traced to worm fossil in Canada
Mother Nature Network - Atlanta,GA,USA

By Agence France-PresseMon, Mar 05 2012 at 3:00 PM EST Paleontologists have traced the origins of humans and other vertebrates to a worm that swam in the oceans half a billion years ago, said a study published on March 5. A new analysis of fossils .. [more]

5:39:17 PM Yale Paleontologists Say They Can Refute Claims Triceratops Wasn't a
Litchfield County Times (blog)

Litchfield County Times Paleontologists in Montana had published findings in 2010, saying that Triceratops was merely a younger version of another horned dinosaur, Torosaurus. But Longrich and other Yale University paleontologists say they've proven  [more]

2:50:29 PM Terra Nova canceled
Examiner.com - San Francisco,CA,USA

Paleontologists and scientists do watch television. Paleontologists are regular contributors to and consultants for "dinosaur" movies and television programs. While Terra Nova did produce some realistic anatomically correct and true to research reali [more]

1:18:28 PM Man's Earliest Ancestor Looked Like an Eel, UK and Canadian Experts Say
MyFox Washington DC - Washington,DC,USA

Paleontologists analyzed 114 specimens and discovered the presence of myomeres -- blocks of skeletal tissue found in chordates, which is the group of animals that today includes fish, amphibians, birds, reptiles and mammals. The study, published in t [more]

7:36:00 AM Fossil pushes back land-animal debut
Science News - USA

“This is the earliest and smallest foot ever found with five digits,” says paleontologist Jennifer Clack of the University of Cambridge, England. “It tells us that terrestrialization occurred much earlier than we had a hint of before. [more]

3:02:04 AM Breathing new life into old bones
UQ News - Brisbane,Queensland,Australia

... into the nature of our continent's dinosaur fauna prior to the fragmentation of Gondwana," said Jay Nair, a PhD student from the School of Biological Sciences, and lead author on the new study published in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. [more]

1:53:57 AM Scottish Fossil Trove Shows When Sea Creatures Started Walking
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA

The Scottish discoveries are four-legged life forms, some of the first to walk the land, and demonstrate that having five fingers and toes arose about 20 million years earlier than paleontologists had theorized. "Everything is getting pulled back in  [more]

1:53:57 AM Yale paleontologists settle dinosaur debate: Triceratops lived! (video)
New Haven Register

Paleontologists in Montana had published findings in 2010, saying that Triceratops was merely a younger version of another horned dinosaur, Torosaurus. But Longrich and other Yale University paleontologists say they've proven otherwise. [more]

1:53:57 AM Alberta mine worker stumbles upon rare fossil of prehistoric marine reptile
GlobalNews.ca

Paleontologists in southern Alberta are digging up the fossil remains of a marine reptile that could shed light on creatures that roamed Earth as many as 75 million years ago. "I saw a kind of cylindrical piece fall out of the side. [more]

1:09:19 AM No Animals Were Harmed in the Making of This Fossil
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

Since the 1920s, paleontologists have debated how these dinosaurs came to have such grotesque final resting positions. Some theorized that water currents moved the bones into formation, or that the muscle contractions of rigor mortis pulled the head  [more]

12:06:12 AM Friend of Darwin awards for 2012
National Center for Science Education

NCSE is pleased to announce the winners of the Friend of Darwin award for 2012: Judy Scotchmoor, the Assistant Director for Education and Public Programs at the University of California Museum of Paleontology who led the development of the popular .. [more]



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