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Friday, April 07, 2006

Canada Post To Issue Fay Wray Stamp

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The Fay Wray stamp will be available for sale in post offices across the country on May 26, 2006, as part of a set celebrating Canadians in...

"Dark State" DNA + H20 = Life

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Chemists at Oregon State University have pioneered a controversial theory about how supposedly-stable DNA bases can be pushed into a "d...
Thursday, April 06, 2006

Evolution of 'Irreducible Complexity' Explained

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Evolution of Hormone-Receptor Complexity by Molecular Exploitation . 2006. Jamie T. Bridgham, et al. Science 312: 97 – 101. Image © Moebius...

Born This Day: James Watson

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From Today In Science History : Watson was born on this day in 1928. An American geneticist and biophysicist, he shared the 1962 Nobel Prize...

Created This Day: The AMNH

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Image from HERE . Read about it HERE .

Paleolimnology: How To Walk On Water

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Is there a paleolimnological explanation for “walking on water” in the Sea of Galilee? by Doron Nof, et al. Journal of Paleolimnology 35: 4...

Hagryphus giganteus

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Image of Nomingia (not Hagryphus ) © Mike Skrepnick From Yahoo News.com : Fossils discovered in southern Utah are from a new species of bi...

Stormer's Spinosaurus Found

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This photograph of Spinosaurus found by Josh Smith in a German museum is the only photographic proof of German researcher Ernst Stromer...
Wednesday, April 05, 2006

Tiktaalik roseae, New Fish-Like Tetrapod

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A Devonian tetrapod-like fish and the evolution of the tetrapod body plan . 2006. Edward B. Daeschler, et al. Nature 440: 757-763 Illustra...
Monday, April 03, 2006

More Various Drawings From Mark Schultz

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Art © Mark Schultz This summer in the second volume of the ongoing " Various Drawings " series, Mark Schultz gives us a dynamic ...
Sunday, April 02, 2006

No Sauropod Proboscis

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Paleoneurological evidence against a proboscis in the sauropod dinosaur Diplodocus . 2006. Fabien Knoll et al. Geobios 39: 215-221. Abstract...

More on The Hobbits

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From Scientifican American.com comes a two-part article on the latest word on the human “hobbits”, Homo floresiensis : “Paleoneurologist R...

The AMNH Dino Bus

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From ArtKnowledgeNews.com comes this article : The American Museum of Natural History is taking some of the most exciting discoveries about...

Today In History: DNA Double Helix Described

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Read about it HERE .
Saturday, April 01, 2006

Commercial vs. Amateur Collectors

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J. CHRIS SAGEBIEL, Curator of Geology, for the San Bernardino County Museum, Redlands responds to a recent editorial in the LA Times: "...

The Lost World

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Thanks to Darren Tanke for passing on this ad from Sept. 18, 1925. Nash The Slash in action! On Friday night I had the pleasure of sharing a...

More Star-Spangled Dinos from Von Sholly

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If you liked the " Star-Spangled Dinosaurs " covers we ran a few weeks ago, you should know that there is now lot's more where...
Friday, March 31, 2006

Dinosaur Eggs & Nesting Behaviors

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Dinosaur eggs and nesting behaviors: A paleobiological investigation . 2006. Gerald Grellet-Tinner et al. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology...

The Emergence of Early Tetrapods

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The emergence of early tetrapods . 2006. Jennifer A. Clack. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology Vol. 232: 167-189. Abstract:...

Dinosaurs From The Chatham Islands

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An Australian-based researcher said that he had found the first proof that land-dwelling dinosaurs lived on remote islands in the south Pac...
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