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Evolution. Extinction. Fossilization. (Repeat)
Friday, December 07, 2007
“Eating” Darwin’s Dust
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The Dust Blows Forward Life in Darwin's dust: intercontinental transport and survival of microbes in the nineteenth century . 2007. A.A....
Born This Day: Louis Dollo
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Dec. 7, 1857 – April 19, 1931 From Today In Science History Louis Antoine Marie Joseph Dollo was a French vertebrate paleontologist who stat...
Thursday, December 06, 2007
'Lucy' Now A Graphic Novel
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“ Lucy ” is now a graphic novel from Norbert and Liberatore. You can preview the volume HERE .
'Slushball' Earth
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Snowball Earth prevention by dissolved organic carbon remineralization . 2007. W. Richard Peltier, et al. Nature 450, 813-818. Poster by Ch...
BBC: Prehistoric Life
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Kieran Shepherd of the CMN points us to this BBC site with lots of interesting links to palaeo and dino articles, and archived radio shows.
Wednesday, December 05, 2007
New Plesiosaur?
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From AP Press : Our old buddy Jørn Hurum makes the news again with the “remains of a bus-sized prehistoric "monster" reptile foun...
Tuesday, December 04, 2007
Dinosaur Mummy
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Art by Pete Von Sholly You don't need me to point you to this week's story on the " dinosaur mummy ". Even in the field di...
Died This Day: The Father of Fruit Fly Research
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Sept. 25, 1866 – Dec. 4, 1945 From Today In Science History : Thomas Hunt Morgan was an American zoologist and geneticist, famous for his ex...
Sunday, December 02, 2007
Walter and Kissinger Murals Unveiled At Carniege Musuem
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All art © Walters and Kissinger From Science News : On Nov. 21, the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh unveiled the world'...
How Our Ancestors Were Like Gorillas
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Extended Male Growth in a Fossil Hominin Species . 2007. C. A. Lockwood et al., Science 318: 1443-1446. poster From the press release : Rese...
Major Plant Diversification < 5 Million Years Ago
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Using plastid genome-scale data to resolve enigmatic relationships among basal angiosperms . 2007. M.J. Moore et al., PNAS early on-line pub...
Friday, November 30, 2007
The Palaeoblog Holiday Gift Guide
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To help kick off the holiday shopping frenzy the Palaeoblog now presents some gift suggestions for the person who enjoys the stuff posted h...
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