Paleontology

If a dinosaur is small, how can you tell whether it died young or was just tiny? This question has puzzled dinosaur experts studying the 3.3-foot-long dino Lesothosaurus diagnosticus, but the mystery may have just been solved. ("A" shows the skeleton and  

The December 2009 issue of the journal Evolution: Education and Outreach has just been released, and among the new offerings is a paper on "Print Reference Sources about Evolution" by Adam Goldstein. It seems to be a spinoff of Goldstein's paper on evolution blogs published in the same journal earlier this year, and it stresses the importance of print references during a time when online resources are becoming more widely available. While I...  

Mexico City, Nov 13 (EFE) The rhinoceros fossils kept in a museum in western Mexico belonged to an ancient rhino species called Teleoceras hicksi that lived more than four million years ago, scientists have said. The fossils were found in the Jalisco state in the 1960s and preserved at the Regional Paleontology Museum in the state [...]  

SYLVA — On Tuesday, Dec. 29, 3-5 p.m. the Jackson County Public Library is hosting an exciting program about paleontology. Scott Persons, former student at Cullowhee Valley School, and currently professor of paleontology at the University of ...  

EDMONTON, Alberta, Dec. 16 (UPI) -- An international team of scientists, including University of Alberta researchers, are using DNA samples from dirt to revise some paleontological history.  

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EDMONTON, Alberta, Dec. 16 (UPI) -- Three University of Alberta paleontology graduate students have confirmed an 85-year-old dinosaur find, discrediting a 1970s revision of the discovery.  

Cedar City » The Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument has yielded new fossilized treasures that a scientist says could help rewrite what is known about paleontology in North America. "What we found will make us rethink what we know about ...  

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Doh! Ha! - (Empty Quarter): Scientists are baffled. The genetic code of the wife of one of the world's richest men has sent shockwaves among paleontology's cryptozoologists. Sheikha Mozzah's DNA has been traced to mutant human/dinosaur remains...  

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"A group of University of Kansas researchers working with Chinese colleagues have discovered a venomous, birdlike raptor that thrived some 128 million years ago in China. "  

First dinosaur found that probably had poisonous bite. China - Dinosaur - Sinornithosaurus - Venom - Paleontology  

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Can't hurt to RT @chewie93: Anyone wanna write a paleontology book for me? Or upper-level quantitative environmental geology? Pretty please?