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10:58:43 PM How Humans Became Masters of the Earth
LiveScience.com - New York,NY,USA

Paleoanthropologist Rick Potts thinks that fluctuations in the environment in which our ancestors lived were responsible. Our ancestors responded by .... [more]

7:08:38 PM Monster-Sized Rabbits Discovered; Sadly, They Can't Hop
North Country Public Radio - Canton,NY,USA

Paleontologists Josep Quintana, Meike Kohler and Salvador Moya-Sola were digging on the island of Minorca, off Spain, and they found fossil evidence of enormous rabbits in a wedge of red sandstone. Called Nuralagus rex ("King of the Rabbits"), ... [more]

7:08:38 PM SCIENCE MUSEUM: The Drama Behind North Carolina's Acro Dinosaur Fossil
The Raleigh Telegram

After recovering a few pieces, the two amateur paleontologists finally secured permission to dig from Weyerhaeuser's regional timberlands manager. The corporation did not take their excavation seriously and stated that the company, which did not have [more]

5:04:04 PM Making a Home on Plesiosaurs
Wired News - USA

Paleontologist Andrzej Kaim and co-authors described the specimens in 2008. Each had been discovered in slightly different Late Cretaceous deposits near Hokkaido, Japan. One, dubbed the Turonian skeleton, was about 93 to 89 million years old, ... [more]

12:04:06 AM Stage: 'South Pacific' comes to Center Point, SLAC panel for 'Course 86B
Salt Lake Tribune - Salt Lake City,UT,USA

Salt Lake Tribune One is a current-day paleontologist and the other is a 19th-century prairie girl. The story takes place in the unnamed American Southwest, most likely Utah. All this might be hard to digest in one play, yet it's not, thanks to Cahil [more]



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