Dinosaurs had fleas too _ giant ones, fossils show
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 08:28:55 AM
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| WASHINGTON (AP) -- In the Jurassic era, even the flea was a beast, compared to its minuscule modern descendants. These pesky bloodsuckers were nearly an inch long. New fossils found in China are evidence of the oldest fleas - from 125 million to 165 million years ago, said Diying Huang of the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology. Their disproportionately long proboscis, or straw-like mouth, had sharp weapon-like serrated edges that helped them bite and feed from their super-sized hostsAP Photo/D. Huang But Engel said it's not just the size that was impressive about the nine flea fossils. It was... |
The shifting face of a 200-million-year-old mystery
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 08:28:55 AM
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| Five times in the last half a billion years, tremendous, global-scale extinctions have wiped out a significant fraction of life on Earth - and each of them presents a grand puzzle. The most recent and the most familiar is the extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs - between the Cretaceous and Tertiary periods, about 65 million years ago. But before that, 205 million years ago, was the "End-Triassic Event" - it set the stage for the Jurassic Period, which saw the rise to prominence of the dinosaurs. Just what happened that killed off half the species on the planet, though,... |
Indonesia's dragons draw tourists to 'Jurassic' islands
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 08:28:55 AM
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| KOMODO ISLAND, Indonesia (AFP) – They don't breathe fire but Komodo dragons -- the largest lizards in the world -- can kill a buffalo or any one of the intrepid tourists who flock to their deserted island habitats. "I feel like I'm in the middle of Jurassic Park, very deep in the past," said Hong Kong visitor Michael Lien during a recent trip to Komodo Island, the main habitat of the threatened Indonesian lizards. ... "What am I supposed to do if a dragon appears suddenly?" he asks Johnny Banggur, the guide on a tour of the island, an almost... |
Bob Schieffer Blames Internet For Americans Believing Obama Is Muslim [Spin-o-rama]
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 08:28:55 AM
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| Bob Schieffer on Sunday blamed the internet for the growing number of Americans that think Barack Obama is a Muslim. Namelessly referring to last week's Pew Research Center poll finding that eighteen percent now believe this, the "Face the Nation" host concluded Sunday's program saying that "in the internet age, ignorance travels as rapidly as great ideas." |
Colossal 'sea monster' unearthed
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 08:28:55 AM
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| The fossilised skull of a colossal "sea monster" has been unearthed along the UK's Jurassic Coast. The ferocious predator, which is called a pliosaur, terrorised the oceans 150 million years ago. The skull is 2.4m long, and experts say it could belong to one of the largest pliosaurs ever found: measuring up 16m in length. The fossil, which was found by a local collector, has been purchased by Dorset County Council. It was bought with money from the Heritage Lottery Fund, and it will now be scientifically analysed, prepared and then put on public display at Dorset County Museum. Palaeontologist... |
Dinosaur DNA Research: Is the tale wagging the evidence? (Dino bone research "chillingly censored")
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 08:28:55 AM
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| Dinosaurs are a popular topic of study, whether in the public imagination or in scientific research. The scientific community, however, has a dirty little secret regarding the manner in which that research is handled. If dinosaur DNA doesn't "look like chicken" (or a crocodile), it will most likely be discarded as "unreliable data" prior to publication--and thus be effectively censored from public access. Why? Because evolutionary scientists are committed to only publish dinosaur DNA data that match their naturalistic tale of origins. Despite the amazing discoveries of soft tissue from dinosaur bones,[1] dinosaur DNA research results (and other dinosaur "connective... |
T. Rex Cousin Evolved 60 Million Years Too Early
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 08:28:55 AM
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| The most popular dinosaur is probably Tyrannosaurus rex, a Latin term that loosely translates as “king lizard.” Based on evolutionary assumptions, scientists have long held that these dinosaurs lived for “only” 3 million years, approximately 68 to 65 million years ago. A fossil looking remarkably like a small version of T. rex, however, has been located in a much lower rock layer.[1] Using the evolutionary dates assigned to the relevant strata, this adds 60 million years to the T. rex timeline. If the evolutionary interpretation was this wrong about one creature, can it be trusted on the rest of the... |
Relic of ancient asteroid found ..punched 160km-wide (100 miles) hole in the Earth's surface
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 08:28:55 AM
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| A large fragment of an asteroid that punched 160km-wide (100 miles) hole in the Earth's surface has been found. The beachball-sized fossil meteorite was dug out of the 145-million-year-old Morokweng crater in South Africa. It is a unique discovery because large objects are widely believed to completely melt or vaporise as they collide with the planet. Writing in the journal Nature, an international team says the find will further knowledge on asteroid impacts. The Morokweng crater is one of the largest on Earth, and was formed at the boundary of the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. Created by an asteroid... |
‘Missing link’ turtle was swimming with dinosaurs (Fossil find shows when reptile took to the water)
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 08:28:55 AM
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| Turtles first took to the water 164 million years ago when they started swimming in lakes and lagoons on the Isle of Skye, fossil finds have indicated. Excavations on the island have yielded the remains of at least six primitive turtles that learnt to swim during the age of the dinosaurs. For more than 50 million years primitive turtles had been land animals but 164 million years ago they evolved to become aquatic. The discovery of Eileanchelys waldmani, a previously unknown species of primitive turtle, represents a missing link in the evolution of turtles that palaeontologists have long sought. Its... |
New Fossils Suggest Ancient Cat-sized Reptiles in Antarctica
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 08:28:55 AM
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| Cat-sized reptiles once roamed what is now the icebox of Antarctica, snuggling up in burrows and peeping above ground to snag plant roots and insects. The evidence for this scenario comes from preserved burrow casts discovered in the Transantarctic Mountains, which extend 3,000 miles (4,800 km) across the polar continent and contain layers of rock dating back 400 million years. "We've got good evidence that these burrows were made by land-dwelling animals rather than crayfish," said lead researcher Christian Sidor, a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Washington and curator at UW's Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture. Ancient... |
Biggest Landslip (Landslide) In 100 Years Hits Jurassic Coast (UK)
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 08:28:55 AM
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| Biggest landslip in 100 years hits Jurassic coast Last Updated: 1:18PM BST 07/05/2008 Fossil-hunters were warned to keep away today after a landslide described as the "biggest in 100 years" destroyed 400 metres of a World Heritage coastline. Experts were assessing the damage along the Jurassic Coast between Lyme Regis and Charmouth in Dorset after the rock fall yesterday evening. The Lyme Regis Harbour Master's wife and several nearby residents alerted the Coastguard to the slide at around 8pm. Simon Palmer, Portland Coastguard watch assistant, said the cliff was still "rumbling" when rescuers left last night and there was more... |
Michael Ramirez Cartoon: Democrats' Jurassic Logic On Iraq
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 08:28:55 AM
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| Michael Ramirez's cartoon commentary on Democrats' pea-brained ideas about Iraq are here. |
Discovery of the Oldest-Known Ceratopsian, an Ancestor of Triceratops and Other Horned Dinosaurs
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 08:28:55 AM
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| GW PROFESSOR JAMES M. CLARK LEADS DISCOVERY OF THE OLDEST-KNOWN CERATOPSIAN, AN ANCESTOR OF TRICERATOPS AND OTHER HORNED DINOSAURS New Find is Evolutionary Link Between Ceratopsians and Pachycephalosaurs, the "Bone-Headed" Dinosaurs WASHINGTON -- James M. Clark, Ronald B. Weintraub Associate Professor of Biology at The George Washington University, and Xu Xing of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) in Beijing, have discovered the oldest-known ceratopsian, a finding that solidifies the close evolutionary evidence between ceratopsians and pachycephalosarians, the "bone-headed" dinosaurs. Roaming the earth 160 million years ago, the new basal ceratopsian dinosaur, Yinlong downsi, appeared 20 million years... |
Jurassic Park (New Find in Wyoming)
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 08:28:55 AM
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| The richest undisturbed cache of dinosaur fossils in North America may change the way we see the distant past... IT WAS THE PROSPECTOR WHO FOUND IT FIRST. Maybe 30 years ago, back when uranium was worth a lot, when people thought nuclear power was your friend. He was working a ridge up at Spring Creek, Wyo., looking for ore with a scintillometer, a modern-day Geiger counter. He was getting a lot of hits. But there was something else. Big, off-color rocks in strange shapes were lying loose on the ground where the wind had blown the dirt off them. The... |
'Jurassic beaver' find stuns experts
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 08:28:55 AM
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| 'Jurassic beaver' find stuns experts 19:00 23 February 2006 NewScientist.com news service Jeff Hecht Enlarge image The discovery of a Jurassic beaver-like creature suggests early mammals were more diverse than thought (Image: Mark A. Klinger/CMNH)Related Articles Nanjing University (in Chinese) Dinosaur special report, New Scientist Science The discovery of a new, remarkably preserved fossil of a beaver-like mammal that lived 164 million years ago is shaking palaeontologists’ understanding of early mammals. Looking as if it was put together from pieces of platypus, river otter, and beaver, the creature was nearly half a metre long and weighed about half a kilogram.... |
Happy Halloween from the Pacific, 1945
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 08:28:55 AM
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| I have not read Dracula ever again. I was ashamed of myself. Here I was, a 2nd lieutenant of Marines, fresh out of OCS, going to fight those Japanese SOB's, and just think, I let a book of fiction scare me like that. |
Jurassic Park IV plot written --- S/B released sometime in 2006 (with original cast)
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 08:28:55 AM
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| September 17, 2004 - John Sayles may not be a household name, but the Hollywood writer-director has seen over thirty of his stories turned into films. His latest opus is the just-released political drama Silver City, which stars Chris Cooper and Richard Dreyfuss. What he's working on now, however, is something that promises to be bigger than any other job he's worked on: Steven Spielberg's new Jurassic Park film. Backstage.com spoke with Sayles about his current projects, including Jurassic Park IV. Sayles, who is re-writing the script originally turned in by William Monahan, said he is very much a cross-genre... |
Paleontologists find Jurassic mammal fossil in South America
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 08:28:55 AM
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| <p>The fossil, which measures less than a quarter-inch long, is believed to be from the middle or late Jurassic Period, perhaps 170 million years old. Researchers said it suggests that mammals developed independently in the Southern Hemisphere.</p> <p>The fossil, named Asfaltomylos patagonicus, was discovered in a mudstone formation in the province of Chubut, 950 miles south of Buenos Aires. The now-arid region also has yielded some remarkable dinosaur fossils from the same era in a vast ancient boneyard covering hundreds of square miles.</p> |
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