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Geotimes
August 2006
Jennifer Yauck |
Ancient Bird Fossil Makes a Splash Recent expeditions in a remote area of China have unearthed unusually well-preserved fossils of an ancient bird that lived between 105 million and 115 million years ago. The fossils of the surprisingly modern-looking bird suggest that today's birds may have originated from an aquatic ancestor.   |
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
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
August 2004
Jay Chapman |
Fossil Fetus of Flying Reptile Unearthed The Liaoning specimens were located in lake deposits that were periodically smothered by volcanic ash, preserving the fossils in fine detail. The depth and quality of this fossil resource will continue to make Liaoning a paleontology hot spot in the future. |
Geotimes
May 2007
Kathryn Hansen |
Birds Evolve Small Genomes Pre-Flight The holes in fossil dinosaur bones are pointing out the holes in the theories of bird evolution. |
Geotimes
July 2005
Laura Stafford |
Rare 3-D Fossil Preservation A new fossil locality in southern China is giving paleontologists a more detailed look at the early body plans of Ediacara organisms. |
Geotimes
November 2004
Laura Stafford |
Parenting Psittacosaurus An adult Psittacosaurus and 34 associated juveniles found in the Yixian Formation of Liaoning, China, may be evidence of parental care by dinosaurs. |
Geotimes
May 2007
Kathryn Hansen |
On the Path of Bird Flu U.S.G.S. biologists are tracking the migration of bar-tailed godwits and other wild migratory birds via satellite to find out if they are likely vectors of H5N1 bird flu. |
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. |
Geotimes
March 2005
Megan Sever |
Mother Lode of Hominid Fossils Researchers excavating in Ethiopia have recently discovered the remains of nine individual hominids from the Early Pliocene, thus helping scientists understand more of the human evolution puzzle. |
Geotimes
September 2004
Megan Sever |
Ediacaran Fossil up Close Paleontologists have recently uncovered a goldmine of exceptionally well-preserved fossils in Newfoundland, Canada. |
Geotimes
December 2005
Megan Sever |
Correcting the Fossil Record Recently, paleontologists have been working on ways to fill in gaps in life's diversity record, and some researchers are finding that climate change -- including greenhouse gas warming -- may play a pivotal role in preserving fossil assemblages. |
Scientific American
June 20, 2005
Kate Wong |
Desert Island Paleontologists have unearthed fossils of giant amphibians that indicate that climate can effectively isolate organisms and thereby foster the appearance of a new species. |
Smithsonian
June 2005
Laura Helmuth |
Editor's Note - Seeing A Ghost A woodpecker feared extinct reappears in Arkansas. |
Geotimes
February 2005
Martin & Case |
Fossil Hunting in Antarctica Expeditions to the continent of Antarctica has brought great information about animals in the distant past and show that the world, and particularly Antarctica, was much warmer around 70 million years ago compared to the present. |
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. |
Outside
June 2002
Scott Weidensaul |
In Search of the Phantom Tanager A bird obsessive chases a maddening truth: the more elusive the prize, the more tantalizing the hunt... |
Chemistry World
January 3, 2014
Harriet Brewerton |
Mid-air monitoring of migrating birds Scientists in the US have designed a biosensor that could be used to study the metabolism of free-flying birds in real time. |
Food Engineering
May 1, 2006 |
Regulatory Watch The USDA has set up a toll-free number for poultry producers to report any suspicious deaths or illnesses in their flocks that could be the deadly H5N1 virus, or "bird flu." |
CIO
May 1, 2002
Ben Worthen |
Bird Calling You won't have to worry about birds imitating your cell phone ring anytime soon... |
Searcher
June 2006
Eva C. Perkins |
Is the Price of Cheap Chicken Bird Flu? Information professionals are faced with a situation in which our skills are called upon to soothe the public with reassuring data about the avian flu. |
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. |
National Gardening
Charlie Nardozzi |
New Feeder Foils Squirrels There have been some squirrel-proof feeders on the market, but now Droll Yankee has come out with the Cadillac version of squirrel-proof feeders. |
Chemistry World
May 2006 |
In the Papers... Bulgaria pays reduced FP6 fee... China to use Australian uranium for peaceful purposes... Relief in UK over bird flu... |
Food Engineering
May 2, 2007
Richard F. Stier |
Heed the Word: Watch Those Birds A pest management program that doesn't address birds has a significant gap. Birds are major food processing pests that sometimes are ignored when facilities focus on controlling insects and rodents. |
Salon.com
June 13, 2002
Robert Winkler |
The birds of Hollywood: An unnatural history Movie producers spend countless millions to make the details convincing. So why can't they figure out that blue jays are asleep at night and thrushes go south for the winter? |
National Gardening
Bill Thompson III |
The Birds of Winter For a lively winter garden, make it bird friendly |
Salon.com
November 17, 2000
Daniel Handler |
Winging it The author of "Watch Your Mouth" and "The Bad Beginning" picks five great books with "bird" in the title... |
