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Geotimes December 2006	Top Paleontology News Stories of 2006 Filling in hominid gaps... On the hominid migration trail... Probing into fossil details... Evolution back in schools?... etc.
Geotimes April 2005 David B. Williams	Mass Extinction, Massive Problem The great debate continues over the Great Dying -- the largest of all mass extinctions, which occurred 250 million years ago. The latest round of research casts doubt on an extraterrestrial impact as the cause of the extinction event.
Geotimes May 2005 Megan Sever	Inside the "Hobbit's" Head After studying the miniature hominid's skull and models of its brain, paleoanthropologists have determined that the Indonesian find is indeed a new species, not a Homo sapiens with a brain abnormality.
Geotimes May 2006 Megan Sever	Hobbit's Species Status in Question A new study this week says that the hobbit, an 18,000-year-old diminutive hominid found in 2004 on the Indonesian island of Flores, should have never been called a new species, and that it instead is most likely a modern human with a brain abnormality.
Geotimes October 2005 Megan Sever	Evolution Battles Continue The battle over the teaching of evolution in public schools in the United States reached a fervor this week, as a number of prominent scientists testified in an ongoing court trial that pits evolution against intelligent design.
Smithsonian May 2006 Helen Fields	Dinosaur Shocker New observations could shed light on how dinosaurs evolved and how their muscles and blood vessels worked. And the new findings might help settle a long-running debate about whether dinosaurs were warmblooded, coldblooded -- or both.
Geotimes March 2005 Naomi Lubick	Broken bones yield T. rex tissue When researchers reluctantly sliced a Tyrannosaurus rex femur in half to get it out of the field, they found something completely unexpected -- the original structure of blood vessels and other soft tissues. Might DNA testing reveal detailed information on the genetic code of T. rex, and more?
Geotimes September 2005 Nisbet & Nisbet	Evolution & Intelligent Design: Understanding Public Opinion Tensions in American society over religious and scientific accounts of human origins are centuries old, and the divide between the two contending worldviews continues today as part of an escalating political conflict over science education.
Geotimes October 2006	Geocatastrophes Catastrophe and Opportunity in an Ancient Hot-House Climate... When the Mediterranean Dried Up: Forensics of a Geocatastrophe... The Great Death: Redefining a Mass Extinction...
Geotimes August 2006 Jennifer Yauck	Hobbit Was Pygmy, Scientists Say The latest study to weigh in on the Homo floresiensis controversy says that the so-called hobbit is not a new hominid species, but rather a pygmy human with an unknown developmental abnormality.
Geotimes November 2005 Kathryn Hansen	Kansas Vote Challenges Evolution The Kansas State Board of Education voted yesterday to approve science education standards that treat evolution with skepticism. Scientists say that the standards open the door for nonscientific beliefs such as intelligent design to enter science classrooms across the state.
Wired October 2004 Evan Ratliff	The Crusade Against Evolution In the beginning there was Darwin. And then there was intelligent design. How the next generation of "creation science" is invading America's classrooms.
Geotimes February 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Victory for Evolution in Dover A Pennsylvania judge ruled that the Dover School District's science curriculum, which required the presentation of intelligent design (ID) as an alternative to evolution, is unconstitutional. Just two weeks after the decision, schoolboard members voted to remove ID from its curricula.
Geotimes November 2004 Megan Sever	More Challeneges to Evolution In three states this week, battles rage on about the teaching of Darwin's theory of evolution in public schools.
Geotimes December 2005 Kathryn Hansen	Victory for Evolution in Dover A Pennsylvania judge ruled that the Dover Area School District's science curriculum, which required the presentation of intelligent design -- a religious theory -- as an alternative to evolution, is unconstitutional.
Geotimes March 2004 Megan Sever	Extinction debate continues Did the Chicxulub impact off the Yucatan coast in Mexico kill the dinosaurs 65 million years ago?
Geotimes April 2007 Kathryn Hansen	T. Rex Tissue Yields Genetically Revealing Proteins The family tree of an infamous dinosaur is coming to life before researchers' eyes. Scientists say they extracted protein from a 68-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex leg bone that supports a genetic link between dinosaurs and birds.
Geotimes September 2003 David Applegate	Opposition to Evolution Takes Many Forms A 1987 Supreme Court decision forced evolution opponents to reassess their approach and seek alternative strategies that would not run afoul of the constitutional wall of separation between church and state. In the intervening years, two such strategies have emerged.
Geotimes July 2004 Megan Sever	Possible P/T Impact Crater A group of scientists now says they have uncovered a crater that may be responsible for the mass extinction at the end of the Permian, and their results are inciting a new flurry of controversy.
Geotimes February 2004 Megan Sever	Geoarchaeology: The Past Comes to Light Geological stories are inseparable from the human ones. The sea level can rise causing populations to migrate. A volcano can erupt and wipe out a civilization. Climate can alter the soil and shift the course of a culture. As the natural world changes, so too does society.
Geotimes March 2005 Megan Sever	Evolution Battles Rage School districts in Pennsylvania and Georgia are challenging evolution theory in the classroom, and now the courtroom.
Geotimes August 2004 Sara Pratt	Burrowing K/T Survivors When it comes to the mass extinction that marked the Cretaceous/Tertiary (K/T) boundary 65 million years ago, what it all came down to, researchers say, is that only those who hid had a chance to survive.
Geotimes March 2006	Geomedia Geoscience Arts: Antarctica Through the Eyes of Writers and Artists... Television: Brewing Intelligent Design... Books: Trapped in the Ice... Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate...
Geotimes October 2005 Naomi Lubick	Ozone Link to Permian Extinction New research on how ozone affects plants and their reproduction may be the key to figuring out what happened to trigger Earth's largest extinction event, which occurred around 250 million years ago.
Popular Mechanics November 16, 2009 Cassie Rodenberg	The Top 8 Dinosaur Discoveries of 2009 For paleontologists who routinely discover new dinosaurs, a good set of eyes, geological know-how and a little luck remain the best tools.
Chemistry World December 23, 2015	Bones of contention Can protein in dinosaur bones survive for millions of years? Rachel Brazil explores the evidence.
Geotimes September 2005 Megan Sever	Footprints Push Back American Migration A newly found set of human footprints in Mexico is suggesting that people were in the Americas much earlier than previously thought -- 30,000 years earlier.
Geotimes September 2003 Megan Sever	Evolution debate continues in Texas At a public hearing on Wednesday, people on both sides of the ongoing evolution debate duked it out over how the topic should be covered in Texas high school biology textbooks.
Chemistry World April 12, 2007 Lewis Brindley	Preserved T. Rex Proteins Assist Evolution Studies Palaeontologists and biochemists have joined forces to identify proteins from a 68-million-year-old T. Rex, showing that organic matter containing biological information can be preserved for enormous lengths of time under the right conditions.
Geotimes April 2005 Linda Rowan	Creationism: Back in Kansas Again Unfortunately, a brief history of the creationism movement over the past 80 years suggests that the debate has not been resolved, but rather the movements in Kansas and elsewhere are subtly changing tactics to try to gain the same objective.
Geotimes April 2006 Megan Sever	Tiny T. Rex Cousin A new fossil find from China gives paleontologists a better idea of when and how the branch of meat-eating dinosaurs that would eventually lead to T. rex evolved.
Geotimes October 2004 Laura Stafford	T. Rex Hits Puberty New research based on growth ring counts from the bones of Tyrannosaurus rex shows that the dinosaur put on the bulk of its mass during its teenage years and then died shortly after its growth spurt.
Geotimes June 2004 Jay Chapman	Evidence for Impact Winter at K/T Boundary Scientist and co-workers hope their research will revitalize interest in the impact-winter hypothesis and help resolve some of the questions swirling around the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K/T) mass extinction theory.
Wired December 2004	Rants + Raves Letters to the editor: Darwin vs. intelligent design... The Long Tail... Response to climate change... etc.
Salon.com January 29, 2002 Alison Motluk	"Future Evolution" by Peter Ward A scientist and an artist team up to portray a future of square tomatoes, kangaroo rats and universally brown-skinned humans who don't need food...
Scientific American September 2009 Charles Q. Choi	Digging Up Valuable Fossils in Suburban New Jersey A fossil search for why some critters made it past the dinosaur-killing event
Geotimes February 2004 Megan Sever	Georgia: evolution on the mind Over the past month, evolution has been back in the news. In an 800-page draft of Georgia's educational standards released for public comment in January, the word "evolution" had been removed from the biology curriculum.
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.
Geotimes October 2003 Naomi Lubick	Vertebrates and tectonics Paleontologists suggested some new twists on tectonics and ecosystems at the annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. Their ideas might offer answers to some key conundrums regarding extinction, speciation and the global distribution of vertebrate species.
Geotimes January 2006 Megan Sever	Old "Footprints" Stomped Out? A dating debate over prints found in the Valsequillo Basin in southern Mexico leaves open one of the biggest questions in American archaeology -- when people first colonized the Americas.
Salon.com May 4, 2001 Fiona Morgan	Louisiana calls Darwin a racist The state Legislature casts him in the same league as Hitler. A science educator says it's going to be a rough year for evolutionists...
Geotimes September 2003 Megan Sever	Textbook battle over evolution Now that the Texas board is considering 11 biology and science textbooks for adoption and use in its 2004-2005 school year, the evolution debate has once again erupted in Texas and around the country.
Reactive Reports Issue 64 David Bradley	Dino Remains We have not quite entered Jurassic Park, but researchers have successfully extracted protein from a 68 million year old Tyrannosaurus rex bone.
Geotimes November 2003 Megan Sever	Evolution to stay in Texas texts On Nov. 7, the months-long debate over how evolution would be presented in high-school biology textbooks in Texas came to a head: Evolution is here to stay, in its entirety.
Geotimes August 2007 Erin Wayman	DNA Holds Clues to Extinction A new DNA study is showing that mammoths were in decline before humans hunted them en masse.
Geotimes June 2005 Sara Pratt	Cosmic Bursts to Blame for Mass Extinction Scientists say that a gamma-ray burst might have triggered the ice age that caused the Ordovician extinction 450 million years ago.
Geotimes December 2006	Top Climate News Stories of 2006 A new public face for climate change... Strong debate over storms... Thawing ice shifts water cycles... Methane climate menagerie... etc.
Chemistry World April 6, 2009 Simon Hadlington	Did salt lake halogens help cause mass extinction? Life on Earth was all but obliterated around 250 million years ago - but no-one knows why.
Chemistry World December 2, 2013 Ian Randall	Mass extinction the result of acid rain and ozone loss Widespread rain as acidic as lemon juice and the destruction of as much as 65% of the ozone layer may have played a major role in the largest mass extinction in the fossil record.
Geotimes December 2003 Naomi Lubick	Vertebrates and tectonics Paleontologists suggested some new twists on tectonics and ecosystems at the annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP), held mid-October. Their ideas might offer answers to some key conundrums regarding extinction, speciation and the global distribution of vertebrate species.