Collecting fossils

wkyc.com Children dig for dinosaur fossils at the Children's Museum of Cleveland - http://www.wkyc.com/news... 7 hours ago from WKYC-TV - Cleveland News - Comment - Like  

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnamese and French archaeologists have discovered a palaeontological site dating back to over 100,000 years in Da Den Cave in the northern mountainous province of Tuyen Quang.  

An ancient dwarf whale unearthed in southeastern Australia captured its prey by slurping up mouthfuls of mud, a new study says. The fossil whale, thought to between 25 and 28 million years old, hints that mud sucking might have been a precursor to the filter feeding used by today's baleen whales... The newfound fossil whale, which measures just nine feet (three meters) long, shares the same distinct jaw and skull structures as today's baleens...  

Brooklynite Dustin Payseur records dreamy, slightly fuzzed pop as Beach Fossils. Yeah, another "beach" band, but the word "fossils" rightly hints at nostalgia that goes deeper and more distant than a few summers past. (To give you a sense of his aesthetic before you listen, he has a full-length forthcoming via Woodsist/Captured Tracks, who are also putting together separate Beach Fossils 7"'s.) As far as "Time," think Galaxie 500 on a dark...  

words by Andrew Frisicano, photos by Erez Avissar DOWNLOAD: Christmas Island - Bed Island (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Beach Fossils - Time (MP3) Beach Fossils @ Shea Stadium Tickets are still on sale for the Crystal Stilts MHOW show on Saturday, February...  

New York, Dec 13 (THAINDIAN NEWS) New fossils have been found that point to the fact that dinosaurs originated from the region of South America. There has been a new and exciting discovery of a primitive precursor to Tyrannosaurus Rex, which points the origins of the dinosaurs to South America. Paleontologists reported this on [...]  

OK. Congratulations Steven Guilbeault of Equiterre. You win the Grandstanding Pinnochio of the Day award. And I have just as much moral and professional authority to award this as Steven does. The pathetic part is all the media parrots who report this kind of garbage as 'news.' These are the same media who ALWAYS find some environmentalist to quote but rarely, if ever, find anyone else. Obviously the enviros have successfully sucked in the...  

(PhysOrg.com) -- Paleontologists have unearthed a previously unknown meat-eating dinosaur in New Mexico, settling a debate about early dinosaur evolution, revealing a period of explosive diversification and hinting at how dinosaurs spread across the  

can fossils be used as effectively as living species in understanding the complex branching in the evolutionary tree of life? fossils can offer insights from the ancient past but the data they offer is often less complete. biologists traditionally piece together the evolutionary relationships between species using only the animals that are alive today.[scientists] measured how much the family tree of life needed to be altered when data from...  

Well-preserved fossils of a feathered dinosaur that lived about 124 million years ago — along with certain aspects of its teeth and skull — suggest that the turkey-sized creature was venomous. Sinornithosaurus was unearthed in China and first  

Woolly mammoths and ancient horses may have been roaming the North American steppes longer than scientists thought. Evolutionary biologist Eske Willerslev describes how his team used DNA samples taken from permafrost cores to recalculate when the animals may have disappeared.  

Five exotic crocodiles that lived alongside the dinosaurs 100 million years ago, including one sporting boar-like tusks and another with a duckbill snout, have been discovered in the Sahara. Published: 8:00AM GMT 20 Nov 2009 Expedition leader Professor  

'Kutcherov has simulated the process involving pressure and heat that occurs naturally in the inner layers of the earth, the process that generates hydrocarbon, the primary component in oil and natural gas. ...the findings are a clear indication that the oil supply is not about to end, which researchers and experts in the field have long feared. He adds that there is no way that fossil oil, with the help of gravity or other forces, could have...  

This site contains a lot of information about fossils. It has what fossils are, where they are found, how they are formed. It also gives different creative ways to incorporate fossils into a science classroom activity  

is a unique species of human who lived some 18,000 years ago. Archaeological digs are ongoing in Indonesia to find relatives of the Hobbit, and the research could last for decades. (EDITORS: STORY CAN END HERE) Anthropology professor Erik Trinkaus also