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11:45:37 PM Velociraptor had keen sense of smell
Calgary CTV - Calgary,AB,Canada

... are very well known for their sense of smell for foraging for food, and for navigation," said Darla Zelenitsky, from the U of C Paleontology Department. [more]

11:36:35 PM Birds inherited sense of smell from dinosaurs ... and improved it
EurekAlert - Washington,DC,USA

"Of course the actual brain tissue is long gone from the fossil skulls," says study co-author Lawrence Witmer, Chang Professor of Paleontology at the Ohio ... [more]

11:32:50 PM Early Birds Smelled Good
Science Now

And a 2009 study of dinosaur olfaction, led by paleontologist Darla Zelenitsky of the University of Calgary in Canada, found that dinosaur lineages thought ... [more]

11:17:05 PM Birds had better sense for scents: study
Metro Toronto - Toronto,Ontario,Canada

... and their co-ordination actually was improving for flight," said Darla Zelenitsky, an assistant paleontology professor at the University of Calgary. ... [more]

8:17:16 PM Sharp-toothed fossil links old and new dinosaurs
9NEWS.com

"It looks to be a mean character," commented paleontologist Paul Sereno of the University of Chicago, who was not part of the research team. ... [more]

8:09:49 PM Read This: Written in Stone
Boing Boing (blog)

In fact, many of the mistakes and misconceptions common with the general public today were first made by natural historians and paleontologists, themselves. ... [more]

8:26:27 AM ITV secures UK rights to major new dinosaur documentary
seenit.co.uk - London,England,UK

To ensure authenticity, a panel of Canadian, American and British paleontologists has been scientific advisors for the project. Many a show has claimed to ... [more]

7:20:24 AM Lynn Margulis Criticizes Neo-Darwinism in Discover Magazine
Discovery Institute - Seattle,WA,USA

The paleontologists Niles Eldredge and Stephen Jay Gould studied lakes in East Africa and on Caribbean islands looking for Darwin's gradualchange from one ... [more]



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