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Evolution. Extinction. Fossilization. (Repeat)

Saturday, July 07, 2007

SADRG 2007 Photos 2

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Clive and Nick prospecting. Collecting a large hadrosaur tibia from the Milk River Fm. Plant fossils (Santonian) in Vertigris Coulee. Clive ...

SADRG 2007 Photos 3

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Clive uncovers dino material in Vertigris Coulee. Eric Snively (Dr.) spent a day in camp. Fording the Milk River. David and Tetsuto kneel a...
Sunday, June 24, 2007

Maelestes & the Origin of Placental Mammals

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Cretaceous eutherians and Laurasian origin for placental mammals near the K/T boundary . 2007. J. R. Wible, et al. Nature 447: 1003-1006. Ab...
Thursday, June 21, 2007

Off To The Field

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It's that time of year again. I head out tomorrow for field work in Alberta and then from there to the Gobi for a good chunk of August a...
Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Lego Albertaceratops

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From the Edmonton Journal : Lego brick-master Robin Sather was commissioned by the Telus World of Science to build the Albertaceratops head...

ROM Fossils Make Way For $270 Million Dollar Crystal

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From the London Free Press : Thanks to a $270-million addition to the Royal Ontario Museum, the University of Western Ontario has acquired ...
Tuesday, June 19, 2007

SVP 2008 In Cleveland

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Logo by William Stout FYI, the 2008 Society of Vertebrate Paleontology meeting will be right here in Cleveland, Ohio. SVP member and artist...
Sunday, June 17, 2007

The War That Time Forgot

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Our friends over at Atomic Surgery present the first part of a story from 'The War That Time Forgot'!

The Palaeozoic Ancestry of Salamanders, Frogs and Caecilians

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The Palaeozoic Ancestry of Salamanders, Frogs and Caecilians . 2007. Robert L. Carroll. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 150: 1-140...
Saturday, June 16, 2007

Pre-Mesozoic Pangea

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Pooch Cafe by Paul Gilligan

Oldest Mushroom Found In Amber

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Evidence of mycoparasitism and hypermycoparasitism in Early Cretaceous amber . 2007. Ge. O. Poinar Jr. and R. Buckley. Mycological Research...

Born This Day: George Gaylord Simpson

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June 16, 1902 - Oct 6, 1984. "Life is the most important thing about the world, the most important thing about life is evolution. Thus...
Friday, June 15, 2007

Eocursor parvus from South Africa

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A primitive ornithiscian dinosaur from the Late Triassic of South Africa, and the early evolution and diversification of Ornithischia . 2007...
Thursday, June 14, 2007

Taphonomy of a Black Bear

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As a palaeontologist with an interest in taphonomy I was very pleased when the CMNH’s Invertebrate Zoologist, Dr. Joe Keiper, announced that...

Gigantoraptor erlianensis from China

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A gigantic bird-like dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of China . 2007. Xing Xu, et al. Nature 447: 844-847. Zhao Chuang and Xing Lida/IVPP ...
Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Dinosaurs Alive! In Edmonton

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The Edmonton ‘Telus World of Science’ (aka the Space Sciences Center when I lived there many moons ago) has a summer long celebration of Din...

Ancient DNA Traces Woolly Mammoth's Disappearance

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image From the press release : DNA lifted from the bones, teeth, and tusks of the extinct mammoths revealed a “genetic signature” of a range...
Saturday, June 09, 2007

DPP Workshop

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As promised here are a few photos from the recent workshop in Dinosaur Provincial Park organized by Dr. Don Brinkman of the Royal Tyrrell Mu...
Wednesday, June 06, 2007

T.rex Didn't Turn On A Dime

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A 3D interactive method for estimating body segmental parameters in animals: Application to the turning and running performance of Tyrannosa...
Sunday, June 03, 2007

Another Sunday Funny

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...thanks to Frank Cho.
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