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11:34:04 PM Are You With Us? Jurassic Park
Box Office Prophets - USA

I love Jurassic Park and it was the film that got me and about every other kid interested in paleontology for a short period of time (in fact, after Jurassic Park was released, paleontology surged, having the highest amount of students ever majoring  [more]

11:18:55 PM Ponca State Park to host Father's Day weekend activities
Sioux City Journal - Sioux City,IA,USA

Paleontologist Ben Vrana will be on hand, working on a fossilized gillicus, a fish that lived during the late Cretaceous period. Activities start at 11 am Saturday with Dinosaurs & Other Ancient Beasts, a program about ancient animals that lived in . [more]

10:45:00 PM Site hints at Asian roots for human genus
Science News - USA

Most paleoanthropologists have favored an African origin for the potential human ancestor Homo erectus. But new evidence shows the species occupied a West ... [more]

7:34:47 PM Engaging With Science in Dinosaurs Unearthed
Patch.com

1, 2012, the Lawrence Hall of Science features an exhibit about dinosaurs and paleontology. By Monica Lam | Email the author | 11:30am The new dinosaur exhibit at the Lawrence Hall of Science draws on the power of sharp teeth and curved claws to hook [more]

3:01:56 PM Was Spinosaurus a Bison-Backed Dinosaur?
Hirshhorn

In life, these structures are thought to have been covered by a thin layer of flesh, but in 1997 paleontologist Jack Bowman Bailey proposed an alternative idea. These dinosaurs were not sail-backed, Bowman hypothesized. They were hump-backed. ... [more]

7:10:40 AM Paleoanthropologist And 'Lucy' Discoverer Donald Johanson
KUOW News and Information - Seattle,WA,USA

AL 288–1, more approachably known as "Lucy," was discovered in Ethiopia's Awash Valley in 1974, 3.2 million years after she lived. ... [more]

3:35:36 AM Snowmass fossil site continues to be 'treasure trove'
Grand Junction Sentinel - Grand Junction,CO,USA

“We're pulling out about a hundred bones a day now,” said paleontologist Kirk Johnson, who is leading the excavation for the museum. He said the success of the excavation and its discoveries are exceeding expectations. “It's really a treasure trove.  [more]

2:25:56 AM Did A Massive Solar Proton Event Fry The Earth
Space Daily - Rancho Palos Verdes,CA,USA

by Staff Writers Close to the end of the last ice age there was a sudden disappearance of many mammalian species which some paleontologists say was the most severe since the disappearance of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. ... [more]



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