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11:02:21 PM In Dinosaur Science, Size Is Just the Beginning
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

But over the last generation, we have been living through a revolution in paleontology. The primal force wielded by such skeletal monsters, portrayed in their very names (like Triceratops: three-horned face), has been superseded. ... [more]

11:02:21 PM Jurassic after dark: Did dinosaurs love the nightlife?
Medill Reports - DC,USA

Peter Makovicky, associate curator of dinosaurs and the chair of the department of geology at the Field Museum said, Schmitz and Motani's research is an example of a new trend in paleontology that started in the early to mid-'90s. ... [more]

9:44:42 PM New research published today in Science journal proves hypothesis ...
The Australian

Melbourne paleontologists Tom Rich and Pat Vickers Rich, who discovered the original nocturnal dino in Victoria's Otway Ranges. ... [more]

9:19:58 PM Origins Project Science and Culture Festival
Arizona State University

Marean, a paleoanthropologist at ASU joined Krauss and German filmmaker Werner Herzog, right, in a discussion at the Tempe Center for the Arts as part of ... [more]

7:29:45 PM Manitoba Museum receives top honours
Winnipeg Free Press - Winnipeg,Manitoba,Canada

Ancient Seas resulted from years of research by museum curator of paleontology and geology, Graham Young. The other award, for distinguished service, went to retired long-time curator Dr. Katherine Pettipas. [more]

7:29:45 PM Missing link ties older to newer dinosaurs
CBS News - USA

Sues and colleagues report the discoveryin Wednesday's edition of the British journal Proceedings of theRoyal Society B. Sues, curator of vertebrate paleontology at the museum, said thediscovery helps fill the evolutionary gap between the dinosaursth [more]

7:29:45 PM Dangerous dinos came out after dark
Science News - USA

The new study supports current appreciations of dino diversity, says Tony Fiorillo, curator of paleontology at the Dallas Museum of Natural History. Many species don't fit the old notion that dinosaurs moved slowly and depended entirely on the sun fo [more]

5:52:20 PM "Rabbi" Greg Epstein
Algemeiner

According to the late Harvard University paleontologist Stephen J. Gould, we only exist because “one odd group of fishes had a peculiar fin anatomy that ... [more]

4:29:05 PM How did such massive creatures manage to mate?
Macleans.ca

Paleontologists don't know much about how dinosaurs mated, because soft tissues rarely turned up in fossils, and even a specimen's gender was unknown until ... [more]

9:57:48 AM Linbeck Group, LLC Tops-Out the Paleontology Addition for the Houston
AddPR.com (press release) - Pearland,TX,USA

AddPR.com (press release) The centerpiece of the museum expansion is a new Hall of Paleontology -- the Dan L Duncan Family Wing -- named for its primary benefactor. Two stories tall and the size of a football field, this new hall will invite visitors [more]



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