NC State scientist finds soft tissue in T. rex bones
... out. Dr. Mary Schweitzer, assistant professor of
paleontology with a joint appointment at the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences, has succeeded in isolating soft tissue from the femur of a 68-million-year-old dinosaur. Not only is the tissue largely intact, it's still transparent and pliable, and microscopic inter...
Space matters: Estimating species diversity in the fossil record
...he parallels between species-area relationships in
paleontology and ecology, collaborations across disciplines may offer valuable insights into ecological dynamics through time. Citation: Barnosky AD, Carrasco MA, Davis EB (2005) The impact of the species-area relationship on estimates of paleodiversity. PLoS Bi...
New technology shows our ancestors ate…everything!
...the computer software include not only projects in
paleontology and anthropology, but also engineering. "You could use it to examine the wear of metal surfaces on each other or to monitor clean surfaces at a microscopic scale," said Teaford. Besides Teaford, the authors of the paper are Robert Scott and Peter Un...
Next good dinosaur news likely to come from small packages
...ur goal is to use a variety of technologies new to
paleontology to develop a deeper understanding of prehistoric life -- and everyone dreams of embellishing our understanding of dinosaurs." ...
Good times ahead for dinosaur hunters, according to U of Penn scientist's dinosaur census
...-Saxons, but, with recent explosion in of dinosaur
paleontology in places like China, Mongolia and South America, that is clearly no longer the case. " Historically, Dodson contends, dinosaur discovery was largely in the hands of British, Canadian and American researchers, with few exceptions in other countrie...
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An Argentine biotechman in Wisconsin
...rope. He was schooled in Yiddish, Hebrew, history,
paleontology science and the Talmud. At the time of his death this past September and after many years of rich affiliation with international academia, he would have been 69 years old. He completed his undergraduate and doctorate in chemistry at the University o...
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Paleontology
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paleontology sets ancient life in its contexts, by studying how...ve affected today's patterns of biodiversity . So
paleontology overlaps with geology , the study of rocks and rock formations, and with botany , biology , zool...
Herpetology
...on, ecology, behavior, physiology, anatomy , and
paleontology . The etymology of the term is the Greek word herpeton which means "to creep". Herpetology deals with what are called the cold-blooded tetrapods , that is, those land vertebrates which are ectothermic (deriving their body temperature from...
Evolutionary biology
...s (which often have subsumed older departments in
paleontology , zoology and the like). Microbiology has recently developed into an evolutionary discipline. It was originally ignored due to the paucity of morphological traits and the lack of a species concept in microbiology. Now, evolutionary researchers a...
Biology
...fossils or other records of ancient organisms in
paleontology . Biologists organize and analyze evolutionary relationshipsthrough various methods, including phylogenetics , phenetics , and cladistics . Major events in the evolution of life, as biologists currently understand them, are summarized on this evo...
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Sequence
...ssil s or other records of ancient organ isms in
paleontology . Full article >>>...
Receptor
...receptor s on the skin, muscle s, and tendons .
paleontology : the science of locating, cataloging, and interpreting the life form s that existed in past millennia. Full article >>> conservative or cut and paste: the transposable element is cut from the donor DNA and paste to the new locati...
Paleontology
...ime of residence. Full article >>>
paleontology (pay-lee-un-tol-uh-jee) [Gk. palaios, old + onta,...udy of fossil s. Full article >>>
paleontology The study of ancient life by collection and ana lysis of fossil s. Full article >>> ...
Pacinian corpuscles
...e epidermis that detect pressure and vibration.
paleontology The study of ancient life by collection and ana l...receptor s on the skin, muscle s, and tendons .
paleontology : the science of locating, cataloging, and interpreting the life form s that existed in past millen...
Life form
...l environment s. Full article >>>
paleontology : the science of locating, cataloging, and interpreting the life form s that existed in past millennia. pancreas : a large, glandular organ lying near the stomach that produces many of the enzymes used to digest food. Full article >>...
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US Academy honors 15 for major contributions to science
...ars to recognize important services to geology and
paleontology – goes to STEVEN M. STANLEY, research professor, department of geology and geophysics, University of Hawai'i, Honolulu. Stanley was chosen "for research and leadership in bivalve functional morphology and the macroevolution of disparate animals, incl...
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