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Geotimes
February 2004
Megan Sever |
An African puzzle piece The time period from 32 to 24 million years ago has largely been a black hole for paleontologists studying East Africa's animals. Newly discovered large vertebrate fossils from Ethiopia, however, are providing evidence that not only was there a thriving and diverse population, but also that it continued long after.   |
Geotimes
April 2006
Kathryn Hansen |
Fossil Bites Into Mammal Stereotypes Paleontologists uncovered the fossil of a large beaver-like mammal in China that lived on land and likely fished in lakes. The discovery could tear down previous stereotypes that mammals, while living alongside dinosaurs, could not develop extensive specialization. |
Geotimes
June 2006
Kathryn Hansen |
Penguins Endure Extinction Event Fossil and genetic evidence suggest that penguin ancestors living about 65 million years ago survived even more extreme conditions than they do today, including the impact that may have led to the demise of the dinosaurs. |
Popular Mechanics
March 12, 2008
Erin McCarthy |
Super-Size Surgery at Next-Gen Zoo Could Halt Elephant Killings Utilizing fiberoptic instruments to permanently sterilize free-ranging elephants will help manage the population of elephants and prevent the need to kill them. |
Real Travel Adventures
September 2008
Jacintha Vroom |
Pinnawela Elephant Orphanage, Sri Lanka If you ever want to watch an Asian elephant herd in their place of origin, Sri Lanka is the place to go. |
Geotimes
September 2006
Callan Bentley |
Summer Roadtrip: A Fossil Aquarium in Wyoming Fossil Butte National Monument is located in southwestern Wyoming, near the town of Kemmerer. It is the best place in the world to see freshwater lake fossils from 50 million years ago. |
Reactive Reports
Issue 40
David Bradley |
Sexy Elephant Protein Elephant sex is quite surprising, not because of the sheer bulk of the beasts involved and the forces they employ, but because of the rather circuitous route taken by the sex pheromones exuded by the female. |
D-Lib
March 2003
Bonita Wilson |
Strange Science The website Strange Science presents a primarily light-hearted look at some of the stumbles along the path to discovery in natural science. |
Science News
October 20, 2007 |
Timeline: From the October 16, 1937, Issue Scientist Describes Visit to Unknown Island in the Sky... New Disease is Reported; One Out of Five May Have it... Early Primate Fossils Collect in Northwest... |
Smithsonian
December 2006
Owen Edwards |
Beard's Eye View When elephants began dying, Peter Beard suspected that poachers were not entirely to blame. |
Geotimes
December 2005
Douglas H. Erwin |
Out of the Past and Into the Future Some of the greatest recent triumphs of paleontology have come from intensive and rewarding collaborations among paleontologists, stratigraphers, geochemists and geochronologists. |
