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7:42:03 PM Earthquakes! at Marshall District Library
Battle Creek Enquirer - Battle Creek,MI,USA

He is a stratigrapher and vertebrate paleontologist who specializes in the sedimentary geology of river deposits, ancient terrestrial ecosystems, and the paleontology of non-dinosaurian reptiles. Marshall District Library, tax supported by the ... [more]

6:03:37 PM Looking For Heroes In Our Midst
NPR - Washington,D.C.,USA

Jack — a paleontologist at Montana State University who, among other triumphs, has demonstrated that T. Rex cared for their young — was an adviser on the film and a real-life model for the character of Dr. Alan Grant. Then came the moment in the film [more]

4:07:17 PM Making a Home in a Dinosaur Egg
Hirshhorn

Now paleontologists Jorge Genise and Laura Sarzetti have proposed that wasps may have made the most of dinosaur eggs, too. The Cretaceous rock of Argentina has yielded many dinosaur eggs. The egg at the center of the new study was part of a clutch .. [more]

3:13:51 PM Stayin' Alive
Wired News - USA

The extended legacy of Boremys is described by paleontologists Tyler Lyson, Walter Joyce, Georgia Knauss, and Dean Pearson in the latest issue of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. Previously Boremys was thought to have been restricted to a slic [more]

2:22:49 PM Malapa Fossils
National Geographic

Berger, a paleoanthropologist at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, and his colleagues made the announcement in April 2010. ... [more]

12:22:57 PM Group uncovers elasmosaur in C.M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge
Great Falls Tribune - Great Falls,MT,USA

A research associate in paleontology for the Museum of the Rockies, Olson figured the "prehistoric sea monster" was a plesiosaur. Much like the modern-day whale, plesiosaurs breathed air. The aquatic reptiles swam through the sea with four paddle-lik [more]

10:05:29 AM Granite Run officials discuss facility's positive turnaround
Delaware County Daily Times

A freelance paleontologist, Lessem was technical adviser for “Jurassic Park” and Disney dinosaur films. When “Jurassic Park” filming ended, he was given all dinosaur models and props from the movie set. Mall Marketing Director Aubrey Proud said the . [more]

9:41:00 AM Meteor Did In Dinosaurs, New Fossil Finding Suggests
Care2.com (blog)

We learned the different types (for some reason, I favored the Brontosaurus), what the ate, struggled to understand words like “Mesozoic” and “paleontology” memorized the various theories for why the dinosaurs became extinct: Had this happened ... [more]

8:54:47 AM Bone wars chronicles race between paleontologists
Billings Gazette

Long career: For more than 60 years, he collected fossils in Wyoming and the American West, Canada, Patagonia, India, Guatamala, Burma and more, becoming one of the most famous paleontologists of the 20th century. Also known for: Womanizing, ... [more]

8:01:45 AM Exploring in Canada, where fish began to walk | Philadelphia Inquirer |
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA

Philadelphia Inquirer Evidence of their long-ago existence now resides in the remote and rocky terrain of the high Arctic, and Academy of Natural Science paleontologist Ted Daeschler has returned to the area this month to continue the search for foss [more]



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