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• in TV
  American Experience Presents Dinosaur Wars, January 17, PBS
  DINOSAUR WARS recounts the epic battle waged over dinosaur fossils by rival paleontologists in the American West.
  by missbobetier / on Jan 12, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “fossils”

 

• Remarkable Creatures: At La Brea Tar Pits, Relics From Long Before Freeways

  
  heave-ho.org — Authority: 449
  At the La Brea Tar Pits, fossils preserved in tar provide a time capsule of the creatures that roamed Southern California 10,000 to 40,000 years ago.
  1 week ago

• On the Diverse Benefits of being Struck by Lightning

  
  Forteana — Authority: 94
  A couple of days ago I came across two unusual tales from the past, which demonstrate that being hit by lightning isn’t necessarily a bad thing. The first is recounted in Mark Pilkington’s excellent little book Far Out: 101 Strange Tales From Sciences Outer Edge . It concerns an event that is reputed to have ...
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• Guest Post: Dysolotosaurus histology

  
  Dave Hone's Archosaur Musings — Authority: 110
  Today Tom Hübner takes us through his recent paper on the bone histology of Dysolotosaurs . This little ornithopod is a close relative of Dryosaurus (pictured here ) but unlike the US Dryosaurus, comes from the famous Tendaguru beds of Tanzania. This is a great piece of work to see for me as Tom started ...
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• Property Of Charles Darwin Fossils Found

  
  GoBlogLog The First Delivery Hot Report On The Net — Authority: 105
  World News Today – British scientists discovered dozens of fossils of a collection owned by Charles Darwin, originator of the theory of evolution. Howard Falcon-Lang, a palaentolog Royal Holloway University of London, found it by accident when stumbling upon a wooden box containing the glass sample preparations that ...
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• NorAm Mammalian Fauna Diversity Shifts with Climate

  
  The Dragon's Tales — Authority: 103
  (original artist here ) History often seems to happen in waves – fashion and musical tastes turn over every decade and empires give way to new ones over centuries. A similar pattern characterizes the last 65 million years of natural history in North America, where a novel quantitative analysis has identified six ...
  2 weeks ago

• Forgotten Darwin Fossils Rediscovered

  
  Geology News — Authority: 123
  A collection of over 300 specimens collected by Charles Darwin and his associates – then forgotten for generations has be rediscovered at the British Geological Survey.
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• Kids’ Classics and Cream Cakes

  
  Playing by the book — Authority: 515
  How do you define a “classic”? Does it have to be an old book? Is it one that remains fresh and meaningful despite the passage of years? We can all point to books we’d call classics, but is there a set of common characteristics? I’ve definitely been mulling these questions over recently (with help from ...
  2 weeks ago

• Lost Charles Darwin fossils rediscovered in cabinet

  
  CKA Canadian News — Authority: 134
  A "treasure trove" of fossils - including some collected by Charles Darwin - has been re-discovered in an old cabinet.
  2 weeks ago

• Darwins lost fossils found in a gloomy corner of the of British Geological Survey

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 720
  British scientists have discovered a "treasure trove" of Charles Darwin fossils that have been lost for more than 150-years. | I spotted some drawers marked "unregistered fossil plants" , he recalls. I cant resist a mystery, so I pulled one open. What I found inside made my jaw drop! Inside were hundreds of fossil ...
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• Lost Darwin Fossils Rediscovered 150-Years Later

  
  The Inquisitr Entertainment — Authority: 731
  British scientists have discovered a “treasure trove” of Charles Darwin fossils that have been lost for more than 150-years. The discovery was made in an old wooden cabinet in the British Geological Survey. Dr. Howard Falcon-Lang, a paleontologist at Royal Holloway, made the discovery. Falcon Lang said: “It ...
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• Darwins fossil collection discovered by chance

  
  TG Daily - All News — Authority: 635
  Fossils unearthed by Charles Darwin have been discovered in a dusty old cabinet in London after being lost for 165 years. read more
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• UK scientists find lost Darwin fossils

  
  Capital Land — Authority: 144
  CASSANDRA VINOGRAD Associated Press LONDON British scientists have found scores of fossils the great evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin and his ...
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• Observatory: Primate Fossil Adds to Claw-Toenail Debate

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 865
  
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• Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: Marrella splendens (Burgess Shale, Middle Cambrian, British Columbia)

  
  Wooster Geologists — Authority: 92
  The first story about this iconic fossil is the trouble I went through to get the photograph above. Our specimen of Marrella splendens is preserved in the common Burgess Shale fashion as a thin dark film on a black piece of shale. A normal photograph would show just a black rock with a grayish smudge. To increase ...
  2 weeks ago

• Confounding Concretions

  
  QUEST Community Science Blog - KQED — Authority: 106
  Concretions at Bowling Ball Beach. Photo by portmanteaus under Creative Commons license. My line of work brings various people to me, asking about a mineral object they have found. Often that object is a rounded shape of ordinary-looking sedimentary material, cemented into stone. "Its a very nice concretion," I ...
  2 weeks ago

• Beach Fossils’s concert in Brooklyn, NY – presale code

  
  Ticketmaster Presale Passwords by WiseGuy — Authority: 144
  WiseGuys has the Beach Fossils presale password!! For a limited time you can buy great tickets before the public! This could be your one opportunity ever to see Beach Fossils live in Brooklyn!! Beach Fossils concert info: Beach Fossils Music Hall of Williamsburg Brooklyn, NY Fri, Mar 2, 2012 08:00 PM Onsale to ...
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• Rocks, minerals, fossils, and a meteorite…

  
  My Favourite Things — Authority: 97
  “I’m taking the afternoon off,” I announced to my department colleagues. “Ok,” they said. “You are supposed to ask me why,” I growled at them. “Er… you are the boss here,” they murmured. “You don’t really need to tell us. Maybe, you need to tell that to  your boss.” I glared at them. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Wednesday’s Presales: January 12, 2012

  
  Bumpershine.com — Authority: 413
  Sharon Van Etten at SXSW (03/18/11) Photo : D. Caplan Jan 18 Wed Sharon Van Etten Mercury Lounge New York , NY 06:30 PM Buy Tickets On sale begins: Wed, 01/11/12 12:00 PM Feb 1 Wed Buy the Sky Mercury Lounge New York , NY 06:30 PM Buy ...
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• Future Fossils by Bughouse

  
  POPBEE.???????? — Authority: 479
  身邊的朋友第一眼看到這些相機，第一句都總會說：「這是不是戰時的殘存？」。其實這些感覺很有年月的相機都只不過是件 art piece。來自洛杉磯的 Jeff Klarin 和 Rebecca Johnson，組成了 Bughouse；最近做出了一組名為 ‘Future Fossils’ ...
  3 weeks ago

• 50m-year-old cricket fossils give clues to insect hearing

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 533
  Washington, Jan 4 (IANS) Fifty million year-old cricket and katydid fossils have thrown up significant clues about how insect hearing evolved.Insects hear with help of unusual ears. Grasshoppers have ears on their abdomens. Lacewings have ears on their wings. The ears of the tachinid fly are tucked under the chin. ...
  4 weeks ago

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