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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 July 2005 Megan Sever |
Dinosaur Links Meat-Eaters and Vegetarians A new dinosaur, called Falcarius utahensis, has provided a previously missing link between carnivorous and herbivorous therizinosaurs, which lived millions of years apart. |
Geotimes September 2006 Kathryn Hansen |
Large Dinosaurs Ran Hot Size does matter -- at least when it comes to dinosaurs' body temperatures, according to new research. Using growth rate and age information gleaned from fossils, researchers have estimated likely body temperatures for dinosaurs of various sizes, as well as tyrannosaur survival rates. |
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. |
Scientific American August 2005 Kate Wong |
Footprints to Fill Flat feet and doubts about makers of the 3.6-million-year-old Laetoli footprints, thought to have been made by Australopithecus afarensis. |
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. |
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 September 2007 Kathryn Hansen |
Controversy in the Cradle of Humankind East Africa indeed has much heritage to protect, as the region has been a hotspot for paleoanthropologists trying to understand the evolutionary relationships between early hominins since at least the 1950s. |
Scientific American September 2009 |
Fossils for All: Science Suffers by Hoarding Paleontologists are overly possessive of human fossils. Science -- and the public -- suffers as a result |
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 March 2004 |
Dinosaurs in the cold, dark Antarctic Washington, DC -- Paleontologists recently unearthed two Antarctic dinosaurs' skeletons, representing two new species from very different time periods on the southern continent. |
Geotimes June 2006 Megan Sever |
Found: One of Many Missing Human Links Researchers working in Ethiopia recently uncovered bones and teeth from one of many previously missing links in the hominid family tree. The newly found remains, researchers say, connect two well-known hominid species that are separated by 1 million years. |
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. |