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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 “paleontology”

 

• DNA Turning Human Story Into a Tell-All

  
  Karst Worlds — Authority: 420
  A view above the Denisova cave, where clues to prehistoric interbreeding were found. Faster technology is aiding research. The tip of a girl’s 40,000-year-old pinky finger found in a cold Siberian cave, paired with faster and cheaper genetic sequencing technology, is helping scientists draw a surprisingly ...
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• 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.
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• The Great Apes of Europe.

  
  The Guild of Scientific Troubadours — Authority: 109
  Science Daily tries to figure out what the Greek gorilla or Austrian orangutan were really like : To date scientists have assumed that great apes went extinct in Europe at least 9 million years ago because of changing climatic and environmental conditions. Under the direction of Nikolai Spassov from the National ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ancient popcorn discovered in Peru

  
  Eureka! Science News - Popular science news — Authority: 541
  People living along the coast of Peru were eating popcorn 1,000 years earlier than previously reported and before ceramic pottery was used there, according to a new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences co-authored by Dolores Piperno, curator of New World archaeology at the Smithsonians National ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ancient popcorn discovered in Peru

  
  Smithsonian Science — Authority: 408
  People living along the coast of Peru were eating popcorn 1,000 years earlier than previously reported and before ceramic pottery was used there, according to a new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences co-authored by Dolores Piperno, curator of New World archaeology at the Smithsonian’s ...
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• NorAm Mammalian Fauna Diversity Shifts with Climate

  
  The Dragon's Tales — Authority: 104
  (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 ...
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• 1300-Year-Old Flask Holds Mayan Tobacco Remains

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 135
  People have used tobacco for well over a thousand years. And researchers recently found unique physical evidence of the ancient habit. They detected traces of tobacco in a 1300-year-old Mayan container. The work is in the journal Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry . [Dmitri V. Zagorevski and Jennifer A. ...
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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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• Digging for Mastodons

  
  North Shore Kid | Kids and Family Events, Places & Activities for the North Shore of Massachusetts — Authority: 119
  The Harvard Museum of Natural History presents a weekend afternoon program for middle-school children and their families. Renowned authors, Harvard faculty, and other scientists offer educational and entertaining presentations on their latest work. In this session well hear from Paleontologist Dr. Kirk Johnson of ...
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  Bildungblog — Authority: 130
  Some paleontologists interpret these fossil remains to mean the dinosaur was overweight.  Others would say, "No, the dinosaur was just big-boned."
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• Test Tube Yeast Evolve Multicellularity

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 135
  The transition from single-celled to multicellular organisms was one of the most significant developments in the history of life on Earth. Without it, all living things would still be microscopic and simple; there would be no such thing as a plant or a brain or a human. How exactly multicellularity arose is still a ...
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• Observatory: Primate Fossil Adds to Claw-Toenail Debate

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 866
  
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• Mummies!

  
  ElementalMom — Authority: 95
  Yesterday, Rowan went to his first-ever lecture, at the Museum of Man. From their advertisement: Tomorrow at 11am, in conjunction with the Museum’s highly acclaimed exhibit Modern Day Mummy: The Art & Science of Mummification , SDMoM will host a lecture on the ancient Egyptian mummy genre and its return to ...
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• The New Dinosaurs

  
  brundlefly — Authority: 92
  Dougal Dixon’s The New Dinosaurs: An Alternative Evolution  was one of my favorite books growing up. It’s essentially a work of alternate history science fiction in the form of a zoology text. The subject: modern day, non-avian dinosaurs, untouched by the  Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction event . Unfortunately, ...
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• English literature influenced prize-winning paleontologist

  
  University of Chicago News Office — Authority: 111
  For a short time in grade school, Kevin Boyce lived within two blocks of the La Brea tar pits in Los Angeles, a place where ice age mammal fossils had been discovered. read more
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• Lives in Ruins: A New Diagnosis for Diseased Ancient Bones

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 135
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• When did it go extinct?

  
  ConservationBytes.com — Authority: 95
  It was bound to happen. After years of successful avoidance I have finally succumbed to the dark side: palaeo-ecology. I suppose the delve from historical/modern ecology into prehistory was inevitable given (a) my long-term association with brain-the-size-of-a-planet Barry Brook (who, incidentally, has reinvented ...
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• Calcium Carbonate: Mother Natures Little Helper

  
  Scientific Blogging — Authority: 121
  .  Many First Nations sites were inhabited continually for centuries. The discarded shells and scraps of bone from their food formed enormous mounds called middens. Left over time, these unwanted dinner scraps can transform through a quiet process of preservationTime and pressure leach the calcium carbonate, ...
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• How Gigantopithecus Became Extinct

  
  Neatorama — Authority: 739
  We don’t know about Sasquatch, but we know a giant ape we call Gigantopithecus roamed South Asia until about 300,000 years ago. Gigantopithecus resembled a ten-foot-tall orangutan and weighed about three times as much as a large gorilla. What happened to these great apes? The features of the dentition—large, ...
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• Rising seas, development are altering prehistoric artifacts along the Chesapeake’s coast

  
  Smithsonian Science — Authority: 408
  Some 1,500 to 1,000 years ago, the Chesapeake Bay region was dotted with the tiny settlements of prehistoric Indians who harvested the bay’s bounty of fish, shellfish and other animals. Today, numerous stone tools buried in sediments, shell middens and the outlines of their dwellings are all that remain of these ...
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