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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”

 

• 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.
  6 days ago

• The Great Apes of Europe.

  
  The Guild of Scientific Troubadours — Authority: 108
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Ancient popcorn discovered in Peru

  
  Eureka! Science News - Popular science news — Authority: 542
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Ancient popcorn discovered in Peru

  
  Smithsonian Science — Authority: 406
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• 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 ...
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• 1300-Year-Old Flask Holds Mayan Tobacco Remains

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 134
  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: 143
  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: 120
  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: 478
  Some paleontologists interpret these fossil remains to mean the dinosaur was overweight.  Others would say, "No, the dinosaur was just big-boned."
  2 weeks ago

• Test Tube Yeast Evolve Multicellularity

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 134
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Observatory: Primate Fossil Adds to Claw-Toenail Debate

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 865
  
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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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• The New Dinosaurs

  
  brundlefly — Authority: 94
  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, ...
  2 weeks ago

• 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
  2 weeks ago

• Lives in Ruins: A New Diagnosis for Diseased Ancient Bones

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 134
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• Fossile Whale Brain on Sale for Charity

  
  Nerdcore — Authority: 132
  Vor neun Jahren fand die Dame mit dem fantastischen Namen Pepper O’Shaughnessy am Ufer eines Bachs, der durch das Grundstück der Familie fliesst, ein versteinertes Wal-Hirn. Das zweite überhaupt auf der Welt. Das soll jetzt verkauft werden und vom Geld wollen die O’Shaughnessys eine Therapiestätte für ...
  3 weeks ago

• I Wish I Were Not “Conservative”

  
  The Pink Flamingo — Authority: 116
  I am a Republican.  My values are conservative, in fact I even watch the right shows on television, but I am sick and tired of being a conservative.  Let me put that a different way.  I am sick and tired of conservatives. I am tired of being preached too about how bad the country is, and how bad I am because I a ...
  3 weeks ago

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