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News From Tuesday, April 24, 2012
11:15:51 PM UPI NewsTrack Science and Technology News
United Press International

The fossilized mysterious organism, roughly elliptical in shape with multiple lobes and almost 7 feet in length, was discovered near Covington, Ky., by Ron Fine of Dayton, a member of the Dry Dredgers, an association of amateur paleontologists based  [more]

10:06:43 PM Ancient horse skeleton offers glimpse into Tibetan past
Horsetalk

Some of those questions have been answered by Dr Tao Deng, from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, at the Chinese Academy of ... [more]

9:53:24 PM Cal Day Picture and Weather Perfect
Berkeley Daily Planet

Ken Finger, Museum Scientist in the Museum of Paleontology, explained dinosaur fossils on behind the scenes tours. The mysteries of mushrooms were revealed outside the University and Jepson Herbariums. Student astronomers set up solar telescopes and  [more]

8:46:41 PM The mystery sea beast of Cincinnati
FOX News - USA

Paleontologist David Meyer, left and Carlton Brett, right, flank Ron Fine, who discovered the large fossil spread out on the table -- though none is sure just what it is.Unniversity of Cincinnati Apr. 24, 2012: A close-up reveals the intriguing textu [more]

3:04:04 PM Ichthyovenator: The Sail-Backed Fish Hunter of Laos
Hirshhorn

The creature I knew was based on a partial skeleton discovered by German paleontologist Ernst Stromer in 1912, but was destroyed by an Allied bombing raid during World War II. With only photographs left, paleontologists and artists filled in the ... [more]

2:35:36 PM Mysterious 'monster' discovered by amateur paleontologist
Phys.Org

UC Paleontologist David Meyer, left and Carlton Brett, right, flank Ron Fine, who discovered the large fossil spread out on the table. (Phys.org) -- Around 450 million years ago, shallow seas covered the Cincinnati region and harbored one very large  [more]

2:35:36 PM Transforming Grimlock: How High Moon saved the Dinobots
This Is My Next

Matt Tieger wanted to be a paleontologist when he grew up. And a marine biologist. And an artist. But mainly: Paleontologist. He loved dinosaurs. Knew all of their names. He wanted to dig their bones out of the Earth and tell their stories. [more]

1:38:42 PM Southern Utah Life In Brief
St. George Daily Spectrum - St. George,UT,USA

Youngsters always amaze adults when scientific names of dinosaurs roll off of their tongues but children's fascination with paleontology allows their young minds to add these monikers to their vocabulary with relative ease. [more]

12:36:31 PM Three-toed horses reveal the secret of the Tibetan Plateau uplift
Phys.Org

In PNAS Early Edition online April 23, 2012, Dr. Tao Deng from Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, .... [more]

11:19:40 AM Peter Ward's Hero
AssociatedPress -

The biologist and paleontologist remembers "the smartest man [he's] ever known." [more]

7:28:25 AM Inside the AMNH Collections: Paleontology and the Big Bone Room
Guardian - UK

In this video, we are taken on a behind-the-scenes tour of the Big Bone Room at the American Museum of Natural History by Paleontology Collections Manager Carl Mehling. In this video, we see the bony beak of a triceratops, the original model of T. te [more]

5:59:38 AM Lucy's story comes to the Linda Hall Library
Kansas City Star - MO,USA

Aunt Lolly beckoned Johanson, who was then curator at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, and his team of paleoanthropologists back the next year to ... [more]

4:33:43 AM Big Think Interview With Peter Ward
AssociatedPress -

An interview with the biologist and paleontologist at the University of Washington in Seattle. [more]



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