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News From Tuesday, August 02, 2011
11:11:14 PM Find out about your fossil at MOSH
Florida Times-Union

A panel of scientists representing archaeology, paleontology and malacology (invertebrate zoology, which studies mollusks) will be on hand from 10 am to noon that day to look at the mystery objects visitors bring in. The panelists include University  [more]

5:51:27 PM Spain's Tiny Sauropods Traveled Together
Hirshhorn

Nevertheless, the anatomy of tracks often allows paleontologists to narrow down the list of suspects to particular dinosaur subgroups. In this case, sauropods are the best fit for the kidney-shaped tracks left by the front feet and the roughly ... [more]

5:51:27 PM Can Underground River make it to the N7WN?
Philippine Star - Manila,Philippines

La Venta paleontologists confirmed the fossilized remains as that of “sirenia” dating back to the “Miocene Age.” “Having studied the hydrodynamics and the hydrochemistry of the Puerto Princesa Underground River, having conducted micro-meteorological  [more]

12:02:38 PM 20 million year old ape skull discovered in Uganda
Hindustan Times - New Delhi,India

"This is the first time that the complete skull of an ape of this age has been found ... it is a highly important fossil and it will certainly put Uganda on the map in terms of the scientific world," Martin Pickford, a paleontologist from the College [more]

1:03:46 AM Non-zero sum transitions in the human past
Glob smacked

The results are clear in this figure: This is not surprising, even though I have only a glancing familiarity with the guts of paleontology I was aware that there's a lot of inferential evidence that Neandertals were not as efficient at extracting ... [more]



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