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10:40:21 PM Now you know: David Alvarez
The DePauw

I wanted to be a paleontologist until the age of 10, and then I wanted to be a fireman and then a psychologist. I had a fossil collection at the local library when I was younger. 3. About four years ago, I got a Fulbright to go to India and teach. .. [more]

9:02:56 PM The Oldest Toothache
Wired News - USA

Along the way they met with paleontologist Paul Sereno, who recognized that Cope had tooth abscess that undoubtedly made the cantankerous fossil hunter extra grumpy near the time of his death in 1897. A specimen of one of the many prehistoric creatur [more]

1:21:35 PM Anthropologist who discovered 'Lucy' discusses human origins
UDaily - Newark,DE,USA

In his lecture at UD, Johanson noted that Lucy has become "an icon of paleoanthropology" and a benchmark against which later discoveries have been compared ... [more]

2:29:17 AM Extinct 'hammer-tooth' animals described
United Press International

SYDNEY, April 21 (UPI) -- Australian paleontologists say they've discovered fossils of two previously unknown species of extinct marsupials with teeth unlike those of any other mammal. Scientists at the University of New South Wales say they believe  [more]

2:28:44 AM Largest dinosaur exhibit roars through American Museum of Natural History
NYU Washington Square News - New York,NY,USA

Even though the museum's paleontology collection already boasts approximately 4.75 million specimens, these fossils are a welcome addition. Curator Mark Norell has been leading expeditions to the Gobi Desert for the last 20 years to collect the types [more]

12:42:45 AM Fossilized spider was biggest ever
United Press International

Paul Selden, a paleontologist from University of Kansas, said the fossil he discovered in Inner Mongolia is of a Golden Orb Weaver, giant spiders that can grow bigger than a human hand and that are still extant, The Daily Telegraph reported Thursday. [more]



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