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News From Sunday, May 22, 2011
12:54:45 PM Hit the dino trail
Great Falls Tribune - Great Falls,MT,USA

David Trexler, president and staff paleontologist, said visiting students and their staff will continue to work on BOB, the 5 and a half ton "Block of Bones"; plus they need to pursue a newly discovered bone bed containing a large number of specimens [more]

12:32:02 PM Improved Sense of Smell Produced Smarter Mammals
RxPG NEWS - Westchester,CA,USA

By IANS, [RxPG] An improved sense of smell jump-started brain evolution in the ancestral cousins of present-day mammals, according to paleontologists. The findings may help explain why mammals evolved such large and complex brains, which in some case [more]

9:39:22 AM Sniffiing led to smarter mammals
iNewsOne

Washington, May 22 (IANS) An improved sense of smell jump-started brain evolution in the ancestral cousins of present-day mammals, according to paleontologists. The findings may help explain why mammals evolved such large and complex brains, ... [more]

7:26:26 AM Sense of smell the 1st to form, study says
Detroit Free Press - Detroit,MI,USA

The tiny creatures "exploited a world of information dominated to an unprecedented degree by odors," say researchers led by Timothy Rowe, a paleontologist at the University of Texas. Enlargement of the brain's smell-sensing region was followed by ... [more]

5:48:24 AM New exhibit to introduce some fearsome new friends
Boston Globe - Boston,MA,USA

“The first thing you notice is it looks like a forest today,'' said Norell, who is also the chairman and curator of the Division of Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History. “The animals are a little peculiar, but at the same time are a [more]



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