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9:35:19 PM WXEL to air National Geographic's 'Bones of Turkana'
Palm Beach Daily News - Palm Beach,FL,USA

The one-hour documentary spotlights paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey's and other scientists' search for the origins of humanity in the deserts around Lake ... [more]

9:26:47 PM 280 Million Year Old Reptilian Embryos Unearthed
ReptileChannel.com

.... of adult amniotes, (so-called because as embryos, such creatures are surrounded by a structure called the amniotic membrane), date back some 315 million years, very few collections of fossil eggs and embryos are available to paleontologists. [more]

5:37:07 PM A Final Hunt for Fossils in Nazaria
New York Times (blog)

A truism of paleontology is that you always find the best specimens on the last day of fieldwork, often late in the afternoon just as a rainstorm is starting. We managed to avoid the rain, but today was our last day of collecting fossils, ... [more]

4:37:33 PM Space rock caught some dinosaurs already in decline: study
BusinessWorld Online - Quezon City,Philippines

“A lot of the time people think of the dinosaurs going extinct: 'oh, you know, an asteroid did it... the dinosaurs were doing just fine, an asteroid came along and killed them all off',” Steve Brusatte, a paleontologist at the American Museum of ... [more]

3:08:50 PM AMNH, Wired Science to Host Lunchtime Chat and Live Webcast on New
Dinosaur ...

Broadway World The study, led by Museum paleontologists and published this week in the journal Nature Communications, shows that in general, large, bulk-feeding herbivores such as Triceratops and the duck-billed dinosaurs saw a long-term decline befo [more]

1:03:00 PM Fossils of Rebel Coelacanth Discovered in Canada
Sci-News.Com: Breaking Science News e-Magazine

Canadian fossil collectors from the Peace Region Paleontology Research Center in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, have discovered fossils of a stunning 240 million-year-old species of coelacanth. Coelacanths are iconic fishes, well-known as living .. [more]

1:03:00 PM Early Americans `lived alongside extinct giant beasts`
Zee News

The findings, published in the 'Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology', address the century-long debate about whether human and mammal remains found at Vero Beach in the early 1900s date to the same time period. Using rare earth element analysis to ... [more]

4:04:02 AM 'Caveman' genes lightly laced in modern humans, professor says
Kansas City Star - MO,USA

Green drew a laugh from the crowd by noting that he was in a contentious field: “I was told that there are more paleoanthropologists than bones they have to ... [more]



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