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11:45:42 PM Byron Dig is history
The Daily News Online

“We all have an interest in paleontology. This is a good way to get a flavor of it without going out west,” Hughes said. Cassie Hughes has been assisting at the dig since age 13. It inspired her to pursue a career in archeology. ... [more]

10:55:07 PM New MSU research sheds light on South Pole dinosaurs
Montana State University - United States

Paleontologists have been adding to the collection over the past 25 to 30 years. The original study looked at the bone microstructure of the polar dinosaurs and concluded that the differences they saw indicated that some dinosaurs survived harsh pola [more]

10:55:07 PM Wild Neighbors: Former Californians: The Dire Wolf
Berkeley Daily Planet

The UC Museum of Paleontology has ten specimens from Irvington, near Fremont in southern Alameda County. Those remains were unearthed by a gang of “Boy Paleontologists,” aged 7 to 13, in the 1940s, along with early-model sabertooth cats (Dinoblastis, [more]

7:15:32 PM What Home Looked Like For Seven Million Years
Glob smacked

In 1926, the American paleontologist Henry Fairfield Osborn laid out this line of thinking in an essay called “Why Central Asia?” “In that environment, the struggle for existence was severe and evoked all the inventive and resourceful faculties of ma [more]

4:54:10 PM Geek Girl Navigating the World - The Rebel Meditations
Boomtron.com

In my own academic career, I was a bit short-circuited because the university I attended did away with Paleontology as a major the year that I graduated high school, then turned around and did away with it as a minor the year that I transferred there [more]

3:08:12 PM Paleontologists Unearth Ancient Ape Skull In Uganda
RedOrbit - Dallas,TX,USA

Ugandan and French paleontologists on Tuesday announced the discovery of a 20-million-year-old ape skull they had dug up at an extinct volcano in the northeastern Karamoja region of Uganda, saying the find could shed light on the region's evolutionar [more]



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