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• in Business
  Forget Mummies, Researchers Discover Oldest Pollinators
  Paleontologists discovered the oldest known insects engaged in pollination.
  by sageone73 / on May 15, 2012
• 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”

 

• North American Monkeys?

  
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  For an interesting weekend read, from Popular Science : Why are there no native monkeys in North America? “Primates came to the New World (meaning North and South America) from, we think, Africa. As improbable as it sounds, scientists think early primates crossed the Atlantic Ocean and landed on the shores of ...
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• Today in the Department of Mysteries: 12-year-old Robby uncovers “culturally modified” bone in Jersey Village

  
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  Occasionally we receive artifacts at the Museum uncovered by curious residents who are looking to have their discoveries identified. The latest comes from 12-year-old Jersey Village resident Robby, who took it upon himself to write Associate Curator David Temple the following (quite impressive) letter: Dear Sir or ...
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• Baylor University researcher finds earliest evidence of human ancestors hunting & scavenging

  
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  A recent Baylor University research study has shed new light on the diet and food acquisition strategies of some the earliest human ancestors in Africa. Beginning around two million years ago, early stone tool-making humans, known scientifically as Oldowan hominin, started to exhibit a number of physiological and ...
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• The Elephants Tomb in Carmona may have been a temple to the god Mithras

  
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  The so-called Elephants Tomb in the Roman necropolis of Carmona (Seville, Spain) was not always used for burials. The original structure of the building and a window through which the sun shines directly in the equinoxes suggest that it was a temple of Mithraism, an unofficial religion in the Roman Empire. The ...
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• Secret streets of Britains Atlantis are revealed

  
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  A University of Southampton professor has carried out the most detailed analysis ever of the archaeological remains of the lost medieval town of Dunwich, dubbed Britains Atlantis. Funded and supported by English Heritage, and using advanced underwater imaging techniques, the project led by Professor David Sear of ...
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• Anklyosaurs Were More Diverse Than Previously Thought In the Late Cretaceous

  
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  Euoplocephalus tutus and the Diversity of Ankylosaurid Dinosaurs in the Late Cretaceous of Alberta, Canada, and Montana, USA Authors: 1. Victoria M. Arbour (a) 2. Philip J. Currie (a) Affiliations: a. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada ...
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• Gastroliths in Pterosaurs

  
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  First occurrence of stomach stones in pterosaurs Authors: 1. Laura Codorniú (a) 2. Luis M. Chiappe (b) 3. Fabricio D. Cid (c) Affiliations: a. CONICET–Departamento de Geología , Universidad Nacional de San Luis , Chacabuco 917, San Luis (5700), Argentina b. The Dinosaur Institute, Natural History ...
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• Angonisaurus and Shansiodon: Dicynodonts From the Middle Triassic

  
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  Angonisaurus and Shansiodon, dicynodonts (Therapsida, Anomodontia) from subzone C of the Cynognathus Assemblage Zone (Middle Triassic) of South Africa Authors: 1. P. John Hancox (a) 2. Kenneth D. Angielczyka (b) 3. Bruce S. Rubidge (a) Affiliations: a. Bernard Price Institute for Palaeontological ...
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• Is There Evidence of Bilateral Animals With Complex Behavior From The Latest Ediacaran?

  
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  (yes) Trace fossil evidence for Ediacaran bilaterian animals with complex behaviors Authors: 1. Zhe Chen (a) 2. Chuanming Zhou (a) 3. Mike Meyer (b) 4. Ke Xiang (c) 5. James D. Schiffbauer (d) 6. Xunlai Yuan (a) 7. Shuhai Xiao (b) Affiliations: a. State Key Laboratory of Paleobiology and ...
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• Smithsonian anthropologist Rick Potts answers questions about the Anthropocene

  
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  There is little doubt that human activity is affecting planet Earth, but just how much? And is it all negative? Rick Potts is the director of the Human Origins Program and curator of anthropology at the National Museum of Natural History. In his nearly 30 years at the Smithsonian, Potts has studied the relationship ...
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• Genes show 1 big European family

  
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  From Ireland to the Balkans, Europeans are basically one big family, closely related to one another for the past thousand years, according to a new study of the DNA of people from across the continent. read more
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• Acrotholus audeti: a New Miniature Pachycephalosaur from Santonian Cretaceous Canada

  
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  Scientists have named a new species of bone-headed dinosaur (pachycephalosaur) from Alberta, Canada. Acrotholus audeti (Ack-RHO-tho-LUS) was identified from both recently discovered and historically collected fossils. Approximately six feet long and weighing about 40 kgs in life, the newly identified plant-eating ...
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• Dino Debates?

  
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  What do Paleontologists fight about these days? What are the current controversies in the field? Im interested in the Mesozoic but maybe the grant money and groupies these days is focused on a different time period? Question inspired by recent viewing of the Jurassic Park re-release. The movie gives shout-outs to a ...
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• Watch Report On How Feds Are Tackling The Multi-Million Dollar Dinosaur Black Market Smuggling Ring

  
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  Few are aware that an international black market for complete dinosaur skeletons is a growing menace to governments of dino-rich territories.  The latest example of which is an international custody battle which recently came to an end to an end with a rare, almost complete dinosaur skeleton of an unfathomably rare ...
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• Austerity: As Wild As It Gets!

  
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  AUSTERITY BENEFITS THE FEW BY STRANGLING THE MANY:  To fully understand the austerity drive, one has to go fully prehistoric, at the dawn of Homo Erectus . For at least a million years, Homo has known how to profit from fire, and, thus, a scorched earth strategy. That, itself, belongs to an even deeper instinct of ...
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• No evidence for theory humans wiped out megafauna

  
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  Most species of gigantic animals that once roamed Australia had disappeared by the time people arrived, a major review of the available evidence has concluded. The research challenges the claim that humans were primarily responsible for the demise of the megafauna in a proposed "extinction window" between 40,000 and ...
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• First Multituberculate Fossil Found in India

  
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  The first multituberculate mammal from India Authors: 1. Varun Parmar (a) 2. Guntupalli V. R. Prasad (b) 3. Deepak Kumar (a) Affiliations: a. Department of Geology, University of Jammu, Jammu 180006, India b. Department of Geology, Centre for Advanced Studies, University of Delhi, Delhi 110007, India ...
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• Humans And Megafauna: Dont Blame Us

  
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  Species of gigantic animals that once roamed Australia were long gone by the time people arrived, a major review of the available evidence has concluded. The research challenges the claim that humans were primarily responsible for the demise of the megafauna in a proposed "extinction window" between 40,000 and 50,000 ...
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• A New Way to Assess Ecological Diversity from Ichnological Fossils

  
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  Vertebrate footprints from the Kem Kem beds (Morocco): A novel ichnological approach to faunal reconstruction Authors: 1. Matteo Belvedere (a, b) 2. Nour-Eddine Jalil (c) 3. Anna Breda (b) 4. Giovanni Gattolin (b) 5. Hélène Bourget (d) 6. Fatima Khaldoune (c) 7. Gareth J. Dyke (a) Affiliations: a. ...
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• Smuggled dinosaur skeleton returned to Mongolia

  
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  NEW YORK — It may be the first time a dead dinosaur is flying for free. U.S. authorities in New York are returning a 70-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus skeleton to the Mongolian government this week. The artifact will be flown to its native land free of charge via Korean Air, U.S. and Mongolian officials said ...
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