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8:55:41 PM OC Marsh, Before the Bone Wars
Wired News - USA

Both Cope and Marsh were brilliant in their own ways and helped establish paleontology in North America, but that was almost an accident of their own egos. Their race to outdo each other opened quarries, trained the next generation of paleontologists [more]

8:00:56 PM Huge Group of Polar Dinosaur Tracks Discovered in Australia
Wired News - USA

The tracks were found on the rocky coast of Victoria, Australia in rocks that are around 105 million years old, paleontologists report in the journal Alcheringa August 9. Dinosaurs thrived in the area 115-105 million years ago when Australia was ... [more]

8:00:56 PM Hammondsport Library to host paleontologists
Corning Leader

Paleontologists will talk about how they find dinosaur remains and show off a triceratops skull. The event will also include a dinosaur “game show,” music, a puppet, magic and more. The program is open to all ages, but registration is required. ... [more]

5:03:31 PM Eaters of the Dinosaur Dead
Hirshhorn

Over the past few years, paleontologists have reported a growing number of cases of interactions between dead dinosaurs and insects. Just last month one team of paleontologists reported fossil cocoons preserved inside a broken dinosaur egg—a possible [more]

3:42:13 PM Polar dinosaur tracks open new trail to past
PhysOrg.com - Evergreen,VA,USA

"These tracks provide us with a direct indicator of how these dinosaurs were interacting with the polar ecosystems, during an important time in geological history," says Emory University paleontologist Anthony Martin, who led the research. ... [more]

10:23:39 AM Opening of Grande Prairie museum delayed due to slow fundraising
Edmonton Journal

By Elise Stolte, Edmonton Journal August 9, 2011 3:17 AM Actor Dan Aykroyd, right, and his wife Donna Dixon-Aykroyd pose with paleontologist Dr. Phillip Currie at the Pipestone Creek dinosaur bonebed near Grande Prairie in July. The Canadian-born act [more]

9:23:55 AM New Dinosaur Discoveries Link Continents and Evolutionary Periods
CheapOair (blog)

Chinese paleontologists in Zhucheng have recently come upon archeological gold. This region, where renowned paleontologist Xu Xing does his fieldwork, is said to be the largest and most impressive amalgamation of dinosaur bones in the world. ... [more]

4:43:11 AM Recent Sightings of Neanderthals
New Yorker - New York,NY,USA

“Each reconstruction is the product of constant and close collaborations with the international scientific community—anatomists, paleontologists, anthropologists, paleopathologists—during which the artists' intuition intermingles with the convictions [more]



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