Paleontology

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• 100 Years – 100 Objects: Trilobites

  
  BEYONDbones — Authority: 128
  The Houston Museum of Natural Science was founded in 1909 - meaning that the curators of the Houston Museum of Natural Science have been collecting and preserving natural and cultural treasures for a hundred years now. For this yearlong series , our current curators have chosen one hundred exceptional ...
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• Grain Use Well Before Modern Agriculture

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 150
  Some of our early ancestors weren’t just scavenging fruit and nuts and hunting animals. That’s the conclusion of scientists who discovered evidence of the grain sorghum on hundred thousand-year-old stone tools. The tools were discovered deep in a cave in northwest Mozambique. The research appears in the December ...
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• There is no evidence that Quetzalcoatlus could see dinosaur pee with its ultraviolet vision, or that a herd of hadrosaurs could knock over a predator with their concentrated infrasound blasts.

  
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  Paleontologist Matt Wedel was a talking head in the Discovery Channels Clash of the Dinosaurs , but was not very happy with the final product. The production company, Dangerous , responds . Finally, the Discovery Channel steps up.
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• 100 years – 100 Objects: Smilodon

  
  BEYONDbones — Authority: 128
  The Houston Museum of Natural Science was founded in 1909 - meaning that the curators of the Houston Museum of Natural Science have been collecting and preserving natural and cultural treasures for a hundred years now. For this yearlong series , our current curators have chosen one hundred exceptional ...
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• New Study Changes View of Ice Age Megafauna

  
  Kansas Academy of Mathematics and Science — Authority: 128
  Mammoth skeleton in the Southeast Bavarian Natural History and Mammoth Museum. Image credit: Lou.gruber/Wikipedia A new study that analyzed DNA samples recovered from Alaskan permafrost suggests that megafauna such as woolly mammoths and ancient horses did not die off around 13,000 years ago as is commonly ...
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• DNA of Jesus-era shrouded man in Jerusalem reveals earliest case of leprosy

  
  Eureka! Science News - Popular science news — Authority: 547
  The DNA of a 1st century shrouded man found in a tomb on the edge of the Old City of Jerusalem has revealed the earliest proven case of leprosy. Details of the research will be published December 16 in the PloS ONE Journal. read more
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• New evidence supports North America as center of origin for all living marsupials

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Washington, December 16 (ANI): In a new research, a scientist from the University of Florida has traced the evolution of the modern opossum back to the extinction of the dinosaurs, and finding in the process evidence to support North America as the center of origin for all living marsupials.The study shows that ...
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• 15 December, 2009 – This Week in Science Broadcast Extended Version

  
  This Week in Science - The Kickass Science Podcast — Authority: 106
  Stem Cells Beat Sickle Cell, Breathing Space Gas, Eight-legged Coconut?, TWIS Does Global Warming, One – Two – Six?, Stem Cell Grudge Match, Bacteria To Burn, Evolvem Giveaway, and Much, Much More… Really, we just went on and on…
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• Links

  
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  Futurity.org – Bizarre band of paleo-crocs unearthed A suite of five ancient crocs, including one with teeth-like boar tusks and another with a snout like a duck’s bill, have been discovered in the Sahara. Cool. (del.icio.us tags: crocodiles evolution paleontology ) BBC News – Octopus snatches ...
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• Late-surviving megafauna exposed by ancient DNA in frozen soil

  
  Eureka! Science News - Popular science news — Authority: 547
  Extinct woolly mammoths and ancient American horses may have been grazing the North American steppe for several thousand years longer than previously thought. After plucking ancient DNA from frozen soil in central Alaska, a team of researchers used cutting-edge techniques to uncover "genetic fossils" of both species ...
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• Crack Research: Good news about knuckle cracking.

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 150
  The latest physical anthropology research indicates that the human evolutionary line never went through a knuckle-walking phase. Be that as it may, we definitely entered, and have yet to exit, a knuckle-cracking phase. I would run out of knuckles (including those on my feet) trying to count how many musicians ...
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• Students validate 1924 dinosaur findings of paleontologist

  
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  Toronto, Dec 15 (IANS) Three paleontology graduate students blew the dust off an 85-year-old dinosaur find to discover that the original researcher had identified it right as an ankylosaur, Dyoplosaurus, and a 1970s revision was wrong.University of Alberta (U-A) graduate students were studying a 76-million-year-old ...
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• BoarCroc! DogCroc! DuckCroc! Pancake Croc! RatCroc!

  
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  "A suite of five ancient crocs, including one with teeth like boar tusks and another with a snout like a ducks bill, have been discovered in the Sahara." Abstract and PDF of paper You can find a ginormous list of stories about the find here.
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• The mammoths swan song revised

  
  Eureka! Science News - Popular science news — Authority: 547
  This is shown by samples of ancient DNA, analysed by an international team of research scientists under the leadership of Professor Eske Willerslev from Copenhagen University. Analyses of ancient DNA thereby once again revoke results of more common methods of dating, such as carbon 14 analysis of bone and tooth ...
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• 100 Years – 100 Objects: Hymeneae Flower in Amber

  
  BEYONDbones — Authority: 128
  The Houston Museum of Natural Science was founded in 1909 - meaning that the curators of the Houston Museum of Natural Science have been collecting and preserving natural and cultural treasures for a hundred years now. For this yearlong series , our current curators have chosen one hundred exceptional ...
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• Lost Giants: Did Mammoths Vanish Before, During and After Humans Arrived?

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 150
  Before humans arrived, the Americas were home to woolly mammoths, saber-toothed cats, giant ground sloths and other behemoths, an array of megafauna more impressive than even Africa boasts today. Researchers have advanced several theories to explain what did them in and when the event occurred. A series of ...
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• HPC Meet Paleontology: Simulating the Gait of Hadrosaurs

  
  The Dragon's Tales — Authority: 132
  The team – from The University of Manchester, University of Oregon and Yale - set up the ‘dinosaur dressage’ with the help of Hector, the UK Research Council’s supercomputer, currently the 20th fastest super computer in the world. They found that hopping hadrosaurs were fastest but – for safety reasons - a ...
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• Tool use in an invertebrate: The coconut-carrying octopus

  
  Eureka! Science News - Popular science news — Authority: 547
  Scientists once thought of tool use as a defining feature of humans. Thats until examples of tool use came in from other primates, along with birds and an array of other mammals. Now, a report in the December 14th issue of Current Biology , a Cell Press publication, adds an octopus to the growing list of tool users. ...
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• Meet "Antonio"- A New Italian Dinosaur

  
  Discovery News - Technology — Authority: 154
  Today Id like to introduce you to "Antonio," a remarkable dinosaur that represents a new species, Tethyshodros insularis, described in the latest Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. (Reconstruction of Tethyshadros (artwork by Lukas Panzarin) based on the fossil nicknamed “Antonio.") According ...
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• Medea Hypothesis Part 7: Wards Summation

  
  The Dragon's Tales — Authority: 132
  Introduction This is the final post summarizing the Medea Hypothesis. Rather than doing my own summation of Ward’s Summation. I will quote the important points. It’s about a page and a half, so it will be quick. The previous posts are here , here , here , here , here , and here . Ward’s Own ...
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