Paleontology

"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. "  

Large, 'lost,' or simply unusual, a bevy of prehistoric beasts were brought to life in National Geographic News's most popular paleontology stories of the year. 10. Biggest Trilobite Sea Beasts Found ... in Swarms The 'remarkable,' yard-long, horseshoe  

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.  

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...  

Just a couple of weeks ago, we looked back at the career of the late Robert Palmer, an important music critic and writer. We’ve talked about the late Lester Bangs (above) and with the very-much-with-us Greil Marcus in the past as well. Today, it’s another of the old-guard music critics of the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s. Paul Nelson was not as well-known as Palmer, Bangs or Marcus, but he was arguably just as influential. An early supporter (and...  

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 [...]  

The Illinois State Geological Survey (ISGS) is part of the Institute of Natural Resource Sustainability at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The ISGS is a premier state Geological Survey serving the needs of Illinois with earth science information relevant to the State's environmental quality, economic vitality, and public safety. Some 200 scientists and technical support staff conduct basic and applied research in geology...  

← Previous revision Revision as of 20:15, 15 November 2009 Line 15: Line 15: portalpar|Paleontology portalpar|Paleontology - '''''Ventastega''''' was a ''[[Tiktaalik]]''-like [[tetrapodomorpha|tetrapodomorph]] that lived during the [[Famennian]] subdivision of the Late [[Devonian]] period approximately 374.5 to 359.2 million years ago, though Ventastega origins as...  

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...  

Undid revision 323437024 by 220.225.29.253 (talk) ← Previous revision Revision as of 08:06, 2 November 2009 Line 49: Line 49: *'''[[David Schwimmer]]''' portrays '''[[Ross Geller]]''', a [[paleontology|paleontologist]] working at a museum of Prehistoric History, and later a [[professor]] of paleontology at [[New York University]]. Ross is involved in an on-off relationship with Rachel throughout the...  

SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology) is an international not-for-profit Society based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Through its network of international members, the Society is dedicated to the dissemination of scientific information on sedimentology, stratigraphy, paleontology, environmental sciences, marine geology, hydrogeology, and many additional related specialties. The Society supports members in their professional objectives by publication of...  

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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?