Statisticians Reject 'Global Cooling' Oct 27, 2009
Monday, October 26, 2009. A graphic shows the departure from normal annual world temperature. (Fox News)
Facebook Redesign Sees Dead People Oct 27, 2009
Monday, October 26, 2009. Facebook's latest revamp has upset some members by recommending they get in touch with friends who have died. (Fox News)
Ethiopia's Climate 27 Million Years Ago Had Higher Rainfall, Warmer Soil Oct 25, 2009
The team includes paleoanthropologists, paleobotanists and vertebrate paleontologists from the University of Texas at Austin, Miami University, Southern Methodist University, the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, Washington University and the University of Michigan. Tabor presented the research in a topical session at the Oct. 18-21 annual meeting of the Geological Society of America. (Science Daily)
Keeping Up With the Joneses Oct 25, 2009
Meet the REAL Young Indiana Jones. Friday, October 23, 2009. (Fox News)
Meet the REAL Young Indiana Jones Oct 24, 2009
Friday, October 23, 2009. Andrew holding up an elephant cranium during a modern ecology study in Sosian Ranch, Kenya. (Fox News)
Geologist Analyzes Earliest Shell-covered Fossil Animals Oct 23, 2009
(July 16, 2009) Paleontologists have made the most important discovery to date at the Arlington Archosaur Site, a prolific fossil site in Texas. The disassembled skull of a crocodile with two-and-a-half-inch-long. (Science Daily)
43 Million People Fell for Fake Anti-Virus Scam Oct 21, 2009
Tuesday, October 20, 2009. Pop-up adverts and fake Web sites dupe computer users into downloading software. (Fox News)
Simpler Web Surfing, Thanks to one 18 Year Old Oct 20, 2009
Monday, October 19, 2009. You don't know Aviv Refua but you're probably familiar with his handiwork. (Fox News)
More Twitter Lunacy: Australian Judge OKs Twitter in Court Oct 20, 2009
Monday, October 19, 2009. Individual Australian judges will decide if court cases can be covered live on Twitter. (Fox News)
* The hunt for the Chinosaurs: Huge dinosaur find in China may include new species Xgsi]tss Oct 20, 2009
Paleontologists in northeast China may have discovered the remains of a new species of dinosaur among what is said to be the worlds largest group of fossilized dinosaur bones, state media announced ... Paleontologists believe that a fossilized skeleton dug up in Zhucheng and shipped to the China Academy of Sciences in Beijing last week could be a new species of dinosaur, the report said. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Scientist: Dinos trampled after death by own kind Oct 16, 2009
A vast collection of broken dinosaur bones unearthed in southeast Utah indicates they were smashed underfoot by other dinosaurs shortly after they died, according to paleontologists. Brigham Young University scientists have spent years analyzing more than 4,000 bones from a quarry just west of Arches National Park. (Chippewa Falls Chippewa Herald, WI)
New York sewer archaeology Oct 16, 2009
Paleontologists in eastern France have discovered some of the largest dinosaur footprints ever documented. A baby mammoth, frozen in soil for 40,000 years in Siberia, finally meets the public. (Harper's Magazine)
Experts say dinosaur fossil found in east China may be new species Oct 16, 2009
JINAN, Oct 15, (Xinhua) -- Chinese paleontologists said Thursday the newly found fossilised skeleton in east China's Shandong Province may be the remains of a new species of dinosaur. The 1. (Xinhuanet, China)
Hydrogen-Powered Military Aircraft Achieves Record Oct 15, 2009
Wednesday, October 14, 2009. U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. (Fox News)
Bones hint at dinosaur stomping ground Oct 14, 2009
SALT LAKE CITY - Paleontologists say analysis of a vast collection of broken dinosaur bones unearthed in southeast Utah indicates that they were trampled by other dinosaurs shortly after they died. Brigham Young University scientists have spent years analyzing more than 4,000 bones from a quarry just west of Arches National Park. (MSNBC -- Environment)
ODD NEW PTEROSAUR: "Darwin's Wing" Fills Evolution Gap Oct 14, 2009
October 13, 2009 It may seem as unlikely as a jackalope, but this newfound pterosaur "hodgepodge" is the real deal, paleontologists say. Scientists at the U.K.'s University of Leicester initially saw images of the flying reptile fossils earlier this year, and "our first thought was, Oh dear, it looks like a fake," said study co-author. (National Geographic)
Inventor James Dyson's Ingenious Bladeless Fan Oct 14, 2009
Tuesday, October 13, 2009. James Dyson with the new Air Multiplier fan, which forces air around its ring to create rapid, smoothly flowing of air. (Fox News)
New Flying Reptile: Darwin's Pterodactyl Oct 14, 2009
New Type Of Flying Reptile: Darwin's Pterodactyl Preyed On Flying Dinosaurs. New Type Of Flying Reptile: Darwin's Pterodactyl Preyed On Flying Dinosaurs. (Science Daily)
The first neotropical rainforest was home of the Titanoboa Oct 13, 2009
Paleontologists working at Cerrejon coal mine have unearthed the world's biggest snake and the first megafossil evidence of modern rainforests. Historically, good rock exposures and concentrated efforts by paleontologists to understand the evolution of neotropical rainforestsone of the most awe-inspiring assemblages of plant and animal life on the planethave been lacking. (EurekAlert!)
Sexual Organisms Replaced Clones In Caribbean Oct 13, 2009
13, 2007) Smithsonian scientists and colleagues report a new study that may shake up the way paleontologists think about how environmental change shapes life on Earth. The researchers summarized the. (Science Daily)
Neotropical Rainforest Home Of Biggest Snake Oct 13, 2009
Historically, good rock exposures and concentrated efforts by paleontologists to understand the evolution of neotropical rainforests one of the most awe-inspiring assemblages of plant and animal life on the planet have been lacking. "The Cerrej;n mining operation is the first clear window we have to see back in time to the Paleocene, when the neotropical rainforest was first developing," said Scott Wing, a paleontologist from the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. (Science Daily)
What Is the Australian Cryptid, Yow... Oct 13, 2009
According to Paleontologists, the Gigantopithecus is the likeliest candidate to explain Big Yowie sightings. Fossil evidence implies it could have been up to 12 feet tall, weighted about 1,000 pounds and walked erect. (Suite101.com)
Bizarre Dinosaurs: Why Were Some So Strange? Oct 11, 2009
But paleontologists say that these seemingly strange appendages and body parts developed for a reason, although in some cases, it's still not clear exactly what some of those reasons were ... But paleontologists remain puzzled about one of its distinguishing body parts: a 5-foot fin attached to its back. (ABC News)
Paleontologists find giant dinosaur footprints Oct 10, 2009
This photo provided by the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) Tuesday Oct. 6, 2009 shows a dinosaur print in Plagne, eastern France, on April 5, 2009. According to scientists, the prints are supposed to be the biggest in the world and the site hosts many prints(Xinhua/AFP Photo). (Xinhuanet, China)
Bye-Bye Birdie: New Look at Archaeopteryx Shows It Was More Dinosaur Than Bird Oct 10, 2009
Just as Charles Darwin was proposing his radical theory of , paleontologists discovered a curious fossil specimen in modern-day Germany: Archaeopteryx. The feathered specimen, pegged by many as , helped provide further evidence for the theory of evolution and the idea that modern birds evolved from. (Scientific American)
A Third of Dinosaur Species Never Existed? Oct 10, 2009
That's because young dinosaurs didn't look like Mini-Me versions of their parents, according to new analyses by paleontologists Mark Goodwin, University of California, Berkeley, and Jack Horner, of Montana State University. Instead, like birds and some other living animals, the juveniles went through dramatic physical changes during adulthood. (National Geographic)
The 'perfect' quake this way comes Oct 9, 2009
ATol: It seems the study of earthquakes is akin to the T-Rex for paleontologists or, say, Ulysses for lit majors. is there any truth to that. (Asia Times Online)
Paleontologists discover new Mesozoic mammal Oct 9, 2009
WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 (Xinhua) -- An international team of paleontologists has discovered a new species of mammal that lived 123 million years ago in what is now the Liaoning Province in northeastern China ... The discoveries of such exquisite dinosaur-age mammals from China provide developmental biologists and paleontologists with evidence of how developmental mechanisms have impacted the morphological (body-structure) evolution of the earliest mammals and sheds light on how complex structures can... (Xinhuanet, China)
Scientists discover link to ears in fossil Oct 9, 2009
Around 123 million years ago, a small, chipmunk-like mammal that paleontologists are now calling Maotherium asiaticus roamed northeastern China, foraging for worms and other small insects until it and others in its lineage became extinct ... Paleontologists believe that the mammalian middle ear bones evolved from a piece of the jawbone of the mammal-like reptiles that preceded them ... Paleontologists are especially interested in how mammals developed such sophisticated hearing, because it's... (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
AP Top News at 4:51 p.m. EDT Oct 8, 2009
Paleontologists in eastern France have reported the discovery of some of the largest dinosaur footprints ever documented, measuring about 1. 4 meters to 1. (NJ.com -- News)
* Dinosaur footprint bonanza discovered in France Oct 8, 2009
An exceptional collection of dinosaur footprints that could be the biggest ever recorded has been found by two amateur enthusiasts on an expedition near Frances Jura mountains, paleontologists said on Tuesday. Prints up to 2m in diameter and recurring over a large area have been uncovered near the village of Plagne in eastern France, 48km west of Geneva, the National Center of Scientific Research said. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Relative of T. rex discovered Oct 6, 2009
Buzz A "peculiar" horned tyrannosaur, about 70 million years old, adds to the family tree of the king of dinosaurs, paleontologists report Monday ... Compared to Tyrannosaurus, this new animal is like a ballerina," says Brusattea, in a statement. When alive, the dinosaur weighed a mere 810 pounds and was only about 13 feet long, small for a tyrannosaur. "The new find answers some questions, and raises new ones," says paleontologist Thomas Holtz of the University of Maryland. Paleontologists had... (USA Today -- Tech)
Ancient Shark Gang Fed on Giant Plesiosaurs Oct 3, 2009
Only recently did paleontologists examine and describe the fossils scientifically. 00004000. (Fox News)
4.4-million-year-old fossil could reshape human origins Oct 2, 2009
4-million-year-old human ancestor, a female dubbed "Ardi," is rewriting the story of human origins, paleontologists reported Thursday. The analysis of Ardipithecus ramidus (it means "root of the ground ape"), reported in the journal Science, changes the notion that humans and chimps, our closest genetic cousins, both trace their lineage to a creature that was more like today's chimp. (USA Today -- Tech)
Mighty T. Rex Killed by Pigeon Parasite? Sep 30, 2009
But most paleontologists now agree that the holes are too neat and smooth to have been caused by teeth scraping across bone. In a new study, researchers instead propose that the holes are lesions made by an ancient version of trichomonosis, a single-celled parasite that infects the throats and beaks of modern birds. (National Geographic)
Prehistoric shark nursery spawned giants Sep 30, 2009
Paleontologists have uncovered only one other putative nursery for the ferocious beasts in what is today South Carolina. advertisement. (MSNBC -- Technology)
Illness may have killed mighty T-Rex Sep 30, 2009
Mighty Tyrannosaurus Rex may have fallen to trench mouth, paleontologists report Tuesday ... Paleontologists had earlier suggested Sue suffered from a different infection seen today in cattle. (USA Today -- Tech)
Feathery Four-winged Dinosaur Fossil Found In China Bridges Transition To Birds Sep 30, 2009
10, 2005) No good evidence exists that fossilized structures found in China and which some paleontologists claim are the earliest known rudimentary feathers were really feathers at all, a renowned. (Sep. (Science Daily)
Giant Birds Ate Flightless Moa in N... Sep 30, 2009
The study s lead author, Dr Scofield, said the study "supports Maori (native New Zealander) mythology of the legendary pouakai or hokioi, a huge bird that could swoop down on people in the mountains and was capable of killing a small child. However, Dr Ashwell said he thought the Maori legends were probably not true , although he conceded the giant bird could easily attack a small child. Haast s Eagle Predator not Scavenger Despite the Maori legends, paleontologists originally thought that the... (Suite101.com)
Dinosaurs had 'earliest feathers' Sep 25, 2009
Details of the latest discoveries have been presented this week at the annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontologists, being held this year at the University of Bristol, UK.. The renowned Bristol palaeontologist Michael Benton said the announcement was immensely exciting. (BBC News -- Asia-Pacific)
Mini T. rex found - the big fella's ancestor Sep 19, 2009
Paleontologists said Thursday that they had discovered what amounted to a miniature prototype of Tyrannosaurus rex, complete with the oversize head, sharp teeth, long legs - and, as every schoolchild knows, puny arms - that were hallmarks of the king of the dinosaurs ... Mini T. rex found - the big fella's ancestor Articles Paleontologists said Thursday that they had discovered what amounted to a miniature prototype of Tyrannosaurus rex, complete with the oversize head, sharp teeth, long legs -... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Science)
Fossil discovery challenges theories on T rex Sep 18, 2009
Paleontologists said that they have discovered what amounted to a miniature prototype of Tyrannosaurus rex, complete with the oversize head, sharp teeth, long legs and, as every schoolchild knows, puny arms that were hallmarks of the king of the dinosaurs. But this scaled-down version, which was about nine feet long and weighed only 150 pounds, lived 125 million years ago, about 35 million years before T rex roamed the earth. (India Times, India)
Runty Rex Upsets Dino Doctrine Sep 18, 2009
That's because the paleontologists have long believed that T. rex developed its bizarre anatomy to compensate for its giant size. "This animal really changes the way we look at all tyrannosaur evolution," according to the lead author of the study, which was published in the journal Science. (Slate)
Tiny T. Rex: Fossil Shows the Dino King Started Small Sep 18, 2009
" That includes the scientific community. Paleontologists aren't just interested in what dinosaurs looked and acted like; they also want to know how they fit into their environment. From what scientists already know about the ancient lake beds where Raptorex was originally found, for example, they know it had some stiff competition. "They would have co-existed with velociraptor-like dinosaurs," says Sereno the human-scale carnivores that starred in Jurassic Park. But they would have hunted very... (Time.com)
Virtual reality used for blind to map real world Sep 18, 2009
Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: The discovery of T. rex's downsized ancestor adds a "missing link" to the tyrannosaur family tree, paleontologists say. A suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into a hotel at a market in northwest Pakistan on Friday, killing 25 people in a possible sectarian attack, officials said. (MSNBC -- Technology)
Real Jurassic Park: T. Rex's Small AncestorRaptorex, from China, looks like Tyrannosaurus -- but weighed only 175 pounds. Sep 18, 2009
To paleontologists, T. rex is a triumph of evolution -- the top predator of the dinosaur era because it was such a proficient killing machine. If you follow , T. rex dominated the landscape because of its large teeth, its crushing jaw -- and the powerful legs that could outrun most prey. (ABC News)
First trace of colour found in fossil bird feathers Sep 18, 2009
Paleontologists have discovered the first traces of colour in birds. Bookmark / Share. (India Times, India -- Health/Science)
African Origin Of Anthropoid Primates? Sep 16, 2009
This research was carried out by a team of French researchers from the Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution (Universit; de Montpellier/CNRS), working with Algerian paleontologists from the universities of Tlemcen, Oran and Jijel ... Fifty million years old, weighing just 75 g and known to paleontologists thanks to the remains of two molars, this primate was considered to be the most ancient anthropoid of the African continent ... The paleontologists concluded that Algeripithecus, like its close... (Science Daily)
Flash Recovery After Most Massive Extinction Sep 14, 2009
The surprising discovery raises questions about paleontologists' understanding of the dynamics of evolution of species and the functioning of the biosphere after a mass extinction ... The Franco-Swiss team of paleontologists has shown that ammonoids needed only one million years after the End-Permian extinction to diversify to the same levels as before. (Science Daily)
Duckbilled Dinosaur Travels From N.D. to Japan Sep 12, 2009
In a back room, paleontologists will continue the detailed work of removing rock that encases Dakota, he said. Lyson hopes to eventually send Dakota on a worldwide tour and then bring it back to his hometown of Marmarth, in North Dakota's southwestern corner, where he is creating a museum. (Fox News)
Where have all the flowers come from? Sep 10, 2009
Paleontologists found a diversity of forms, not a few primitive forerunners. But talk to experts today and there is a note of guarded optimism. (India Times, India -- Health/Science)
Space photos Sep 10, 2009
Paleontologists say watching emus and studying their tracks provide clues about a mysterious dinosaur species from 165 million years ago. Sponsored links. (MSNBC -- Technology)
Colleges find juicy titles swell enrollment Sep 8, 2009
Future economists, along with poets and paleontologists, are invited to the freshman seminar Dinosaur Tracks, Communes, Massacres & Poets, and a classics course is dubbed Achilles to Batman: Where are the Heroes. Not to be outdone, Suffolk University offers freshmen an array of tantalizingly titled seminars, including the sprawling Sacred Hoops, Sneaker Pimps, and Hoop Dreams: Race, Gender, and Consumerism in 20th Century American Basketball. (Boston Globe)
Giraffe of the Mesozoic unearthed in China Sep 3, 2009
Previously it was thought that sauropods were most prevalent during the of North America and Africa, with some paleontologists theorizing these dinosaurs underwent a rapid population decline in the Early Cretaceous. "However, based on recent discoveries, more and more Cretaceous sauropods have been recovered, and many are from Asia," Hai Lu said. (MSNBC -- Environment)
How Many Dinosaur Fossils Are Left To Find? Sep 1, 2009
A Tyrannosaurus rex museum display yesterday that paleontologists in Australia have discovered a new species of dinosaura large, plant-eating nicknamed Zac ... It seems as if paleontologists are always stumbling across new skeletal remains, but how long can this last ... Paleontologists have a far more precise idea of how many more dinosaur types or "genera" are left to discover. (Slate)
The truth behind Lodi's Seventh-day Adventist Academy and school (1) Aug 30, 2009
Weeklong outdoor schools are held for sixt grade at Albion, seventh grade in Monterey, and eighth-graders become paleontologists on a dig in Nevada. Typically, the elementary students at every grade level enjoy multiple field trips each year. (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
Ancient birds feathers had iridescent glow Aug 28, 2009
Nanostructures preserved in feather fossils more than 40 million years old show evidence that those feathers were once vivid and iridescent in color, paleontologists say ... For more than 25 years, paleontologists had thought these structures in similar feather fossils were bacteria that had digested the feathers at the time they were fossilized. (MSNBC -- Technology)
Scientists unearth old Aussie dinosaurs Aug 26, 2009
Paleontologists have discovered some of Australia's oldest and largest dinosaur fossils in southwest Queensland. A two-week dig expedition on a site west of Eromanga has unearthed dozens of dinosaur bones and plant fossils believed to be around 97 million years old. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Scientists find evidence of iridescence in 40 million-year-old feather fossil Aug 26, 2009
A team of paleontologists and ornithologists led by Yale University has now discovered evidence of vivid iridescent colors in feather fossils more than 40 million years old ... For more than 25 years, paleontologists have found microscopic tubular structures on fossilized feathers and hair. (EurekAlert!)
Fossils for All: Science Suffers by Hoarding Aug 25, 2009
Paleontologists are overly possessive of human fossils. Science--and the public--suffers as a result. (Scientific American)
Footprints of the largest dinosaur in Europe found Aug 20, 2009
LONDON: Paleontologists have discovered what they claim are the largest dinosaur footprints ever to be found in Europe, half way up a Swiss mountain ... According to the paleontologists, the three-toed animal, which probably measured between 15 and 20 feet long, walked through what is now the Swiss Alps more than 210 million years ago. (India Times, India -- Health/Science)
Earliest Complex Organisms Fed By Ocean Buffet Aug 20, 2009
20, 2008) Paleontologists studying ancient fossils they excavated in the South Australian outback argue that Earth's ecosystem has been complex for hundreds of millions of years -- at least since around 565. . (Science Daily)
Pterosaur "Runway" Found; Shows Birdlike Landing Style Aug 20, 2009
Flying-reptile footprints are so common at the late- site that paleontologists call it Pterosaur Beach. But from the start, it was obvious the newfound cluster is one of a kind. (National Geographic)
Bizarre Fossil Organisms Likely Absorbed Nutrients through Their Skin Aug 19, 2009
And that is why the Ediacarans, which could grow to up to one meter in length and are considered , have been such an enigma to paleontologists. Although these creatures show some similarities to modern-day sponges and corals, Ediacarans were entirely soft-bodied and lacked mouths or other feeding orifices, and scientists are unsure of their relationship to modern animals. (Scientific American)
Bones of mastodon uncovered Aug 18, 2009
Wright said the dirt in which the fossils were found has been set aside by Ventren, and paleontologists from the state museum have conducted further searches for additional pieces. Museum staff were on site again Friday but have turned up nothing further. (Vincennes Sun Commercial, IN)
