Fossils

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• Lasers Record, Preserve Dino Tracks

  
  Geology News — Authority: 514
  Portable 3D laser technology can be used to scan fossils for data to create three-dimensional replicas. An example of this is in Glen Rose, Texas, where a dinosaur track was built into a courthouse wall.
  17 hours ago

• UK travel news round up

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 983
  The Bath Film festival, Santas grotto deep underground and courses in fossil collecting Its ancient history Those who dont know their ammonite from their belemnite can book a place at Lyme Regiss Jurassic Coast Centre next spring. In conjunction with Londons Natural History Museum , it is to host short courses ...
  22 hours ago

• Re: Couple fossil teeth for ID help. Horse, Bison, or what?

  
  TreasureNet Forum — Authority: 189
  Quote from: Worthy55 on Nov 10, 2009, 11:47:32 AM I would say Horse for sure.  Thanks.  You really duplicated the photos.
  1 day ago

• Foraminifera Reveal Ocean’s History

  
  Geology News — Authority: 514
  Foraminifera fossils are tiny calcium carbonate shells, as small as a grain of sand. These fossils yield numerous clues about the water depth, water temperature, climate and other environmental conditions present at the time that they were alive.
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• Prehistoric rhinos roamed in Mexico, say scientists

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 706
  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 ...
  2 days ago

• Microbial Mats in Archaen

  
  The Dragon's Tales — Authority: 429
  Palaeontology: Modern life in ancient mats Michael M. Tice1 Top of page Abstract Microbial communities seem to have inhabited tidal sediments 2.9 billion years ago much as they do today — but what organisms were involved, and how they made their living, remain intriguing questions. Establishing from fossil ...
  2 days ago

• Pass notes No 2,682: Tyrannosaurus Rex

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 983
  Is our image of the prehistoric predator a little wide of the mark? Age: 68m years, give or take. Appearance: Does just what it says on the etymological tin – it looks like a tyrant lizard king. I know the one – huge legs, massive tail, mighty jaws, weirdly tiny and endearing arms waggling about at the ...
  2 days ago

• The Vatican and Sentient Extraterrestrial Life

  
  Geology News — Authority: 514
  The Vatican recently hosted a conference that brought scientists and clergy together for the purpose of exploring the possibility of sentient extraterrestrial life. This AOL article reports on the conference and relationships between the Catholic Church and science.
  3 days ago

• Study suggests dinosaurs were warm-blooded and nimble

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 983
  A new study of their skeletons suggests dinosaurs like T rex were nimble, warm-blooded creatures Tyrannosaurus rex was an athletic, warm-blooded animal that jogged rather than lumbered around its territory, according to a new study. Researchers led by Herman Pontzer at the University of Washington, St Louis, ...
  3 days ago

• End Of An Era

  
  The Ethical Palaeontologist — Authority: 106
  I learned last night that Professor Barrie Rickards, expert graptolite researcher, has died at the age of 71. It was reported this morning on PaleoNet , the palaeontology listserve. My year group affectionately named him Darth Rickards, Dark Lord of the Schist. I recall sitting in a stream section somewhere in the ...
  4 days ago

• Help with point??

  
  Treasure Quest Metal Detecting Forum — Authority: 163
  Hello all, As you know I am new to this point hunting etc. The last couple times I have been out I found a couple interesting things. The first trip was this little guy. From the amount of research I believe it is a Dalton/Bird Point?? I was wondering if anyone could give me an estimate on age? I found this one ...
  5 days ago

• Insect Pollination Before Angiosperms

  
  The Dragon's Tales — Authority: 429
  A Probable Pollination Mode Before Angiosperms: Eurasian, Long-Proboscid Scorpionflies 1. Dong Ren (a) 2. Conrad C. Labandeira (b,c,*) 3. Jorge A. Santiago-Blay (b,d) 4. Alexandr Rasnitsyn (e,f) 5. ChungKun Shih (a) 6. Alexei Bashkuev (e) 7. M. Amelia V. Logan (g) 8. Carol L. Hotton (b,h) 9. David Dilcher ...
  5 days ago

• Save 15% @ PlumandSage.com

  
  ...Anything Indie — Authority: 119
  www.plumandsage.com {I took this picture of some of my fossils that I have in stock that will eventually be made into jewelry} Coupon expires Nov 30th.
  5 days ago

• Found Fossils, Dinosaurs and the History of Extinction

  
  History Blog — Authority: 121
  Though the term “fossil” – a derivation of the Latin word for “dug up” — was first used in 16th century France, the petrified impressions of centuries old flora and fauna — including some of what later come to be known as dinosaurs — have been known to man, though wholly misunderstood, since the dawn ...
  5 days ago

• Tiny Tails Wagging Gigantic Dogs

  
  Science and the Sacred — Authority: 547
  In my last blog post I addressed some questions of logic that had been raised on a popular anti-evolutionary blog, and how scientific arguments are often caricatured to make them appear to be committing logical fallacies. In this post, I...
  5 days ago

• Hotbox at The Levi’s®/FADER Fort: Beach Fossils

  
  The Tripwire — Authority: 570
  Once upon a time, three dashing young lads waved their respective mini-guitars twice over a bathtub full of Budweiser and ice. The ice melted into sand and the beer bottles became tall palm trees. The boys then hopped on their guitars-turned-surfboards and rode the daydream wave they had just created without even a ...
  5 days ago

• Australian Age Of Dinosaurs website, as mentioned on air ... (link)

  
  Collectors — Authority: 815
  Australian Age of Dinosaurs Ltd is a western Queensland based, non-profit organisation to encourage, promote and facilitate the discovery, preservation and display of fossil material
  5 days ago

• 10:55 - Dinosaur-led tourism brings the Central Queensland outback to life ... (audio)

  
  Collectors — Authority: 815
  Anna Hipsley gets the lowdown from palaeontologist Scott Hucknall
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• Basal Therian Mammal Discovered in France

  
  The Dragon's Tales — Authority: 429
  The oldest modern therian mammal from Europe and its bearing on stem marsupial paleobiogeography 1. Romain Vullo (a,b,1) 2. Emmanuel Gheerbrant (c) 3. Christian de Muizon (c) 4. Didier Néraudeau (b) a. Unidad de Paleontología, Departamento de Biología, Calle Darwin, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, ...
  1 week ago

• Hotbox at The Levi’s®/FADER Fort: Beach Fossils

  
  The Tripwire — Authority: 570
  Once upon a time, three dashing young lads waved their respective mini-guitars twice over a bathtub full of Budweiser and ice. The ice melted into sand and the beer bottles became tall palm trees. The boys then hopped on their guitars-turned-surfboards and rode the daydream wave they had just created without even a ...
  1 week ago

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