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11:38:14 PM Newly-discovered stone tools are some of mankind's earliest tech
Digitaltrends.com

Paleontologists have figured that most hominin migrations out of Africa were isolated to H. erectus groups. The only fault in that theory was that Eurasian fossil sites rarely had Acheulean tech present, with Oldowan tools being far more popular. ... [more]

10:09:45 PM Scientists digging in Tibet find woolly rhinoceros fossil believed to be
The Republic

The Republic The new fossil from the Zanda Basin in Tibet may provide an alternative evolutionary explanation for some of those animals, said study co-author Xiaoming Wang, a vertebrate paleontologist with the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles Co [more]

8:44:50 PM Lecture on the Life of the Jurassic Period In Connecticut
Hartford Courant - United States

Westminster faculty member and paleontologist Nick McDonald will give a public lecture at Westminster School on Sept. 16 about his latest book, "Window Into the Jurassic World." The book is an authoritative look at early Mesozoic life in Connecticut  [more]

8:00:14 PM FOUND: One very, very old woolly rhino
Catholic Online - Bakersfield,CA,USA

The fossilized specimen lived some 3.6 million years ago, according to paleontologists. It was originally covered in thick fur, similar to other large mammals that lived a million years later when the Earth was much cooler than it is today. ... [more]

8:00:14 PM The Dinosaur Revolution Will Be Televised
Hirshhorn

Sound bites from professional paleontologists are used to back up certain claims, but this is merely using scientific authority to back up a premise – very little is actually explained this way. This brings me back to my earlier comment that Dinosaur [more]

3:39:22 PM Researchers Tap Into Cold Resource; Discover Ancient Woolly Mammoth Rhino
International Business Times - New York,NY,USA

By Gabriel Perna | September 2, 2011 10:05 AM EDT Old is new again in the world of paleontology thanks to cold areas like Tibet, the Antarctic and the Arctic. Researchers from the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHM) recently discovered [more]

2:11:08 PM Wallabies help get the jump on super bugs
The Australian

"We (paleontologists) have to work hypothetically. They can work in reality, produce the molecule and bring back a piece of it." Professor Cocks and his colleagues reported their findings this week in PLoS One. They noted that the work builds on the  [more]

12:18:32 PM Many questions on evolution
Carroll County Times - Westminster,MD,USA

Several years ago China hosted a meeting at which archeologists and paleontologists from all over the world concluded that after many centuries of searching, there was no evidence found to support Darwin's claims that species evolve from each another [more]

12:18:32 PM Woolly Rhino Fossil Suggests Pre-Ice Age Giants Evolved in Tibet
International Business Times - New York,NY,USA

Paleontologists from the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and the Chinese Academy of Science found the rhino's complete skull and lower jaw in 2007. They argue in a paper to be published Friday in the journal "Science" that the mammal ... [more]

10:14:37 AM REDLANDS: County Museum open Labor Day for a 'learning vacation'
Press-Enterprise - Riverside,CA,USA

Museum visitors can enjoy three floors of exhibits focused on the cultural and natural history of Inland Southern California and the Southwest, including archaeology and anthropology, geology and paleontology, history, and biological sciences. ... [more]



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