Grossology Exhibit Captivates Kids at The Orlando Science Center
...mission to the Orlando Science Center, which is $17 for adults and $12 for kids (ages 3-11). This ticket also includes access to Hatching the Past - a paleontology exhibit on fossilized dinosaur eggs that also premieres on January 31 - as well as the Science Center's floor floors of hands-on exhibits, live progra...Primitive Plants Have Complex Sex Life
...or Irene Terry, research associate professor of biology, said in a prepared statement. More information The University of California Museum of paleontology has more about cycads . -- Robert Preidt SOURCE: University of Utah, news release, Oct. 4, ...Dinos may Have Died in Agonizing Death Throes of Asphyxiation
...roposed link between dinosaurs and present-day birds. According to Kevin Padian, professor of integrative biology and curator in the Museum of paleontology at the University of California, Berkeley, "virtually all articulated specimens of Archaeopteryx are in this posture, exhibiting a classic pose of hea...US Academy honors 15 for major contributions to science
...r parent bodies." Mary Clark Thompson Medal, a medal and prize of $15,000 awarded every three years 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 resear...Academy volunteer wins national paleontology award
PHILADELPHIA His friends used to think he was eccentric, crawling like Spiderman along a rocky sandstone road cut in north-central Pennsylvania, hauling dental tools and a jack hammer. Now, says Norman Douglas Rowe of Renovo, theyve gotten over it, and are congratulating him on receiving the ...Climate-caused biodiversity booms and busts in ancient plants and mammals
...western part of North America at that time than at any other time." Woodburne and co-authors Gregg Gunnell of the University of Michigan Museum of paleontology and Richard Stucky of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science examined the records of ancient temperatures and information on the fossil plants and mamm...Fossil plants bring Wilf distinguished speaker honor
...iety selects outstanding scientists whose current research or other work in paleontology is highly regarded and of broad interest to serve as Distinguished Lecturer...llent speakers who communicate the interest and importance of their work in paleontology well. The program is intended to make outstanding speakers available to the...Down Under dinosaur burrow discovery provides climate change clues
...environments." An eye for subtle clues A specialist in trace fossils including tracks, scat and burrows Martin is known for detecting subtle paleontology clues. He also identified the first tracks of a large, carnivorous dinosaur in Victoria, and the first fossil crayfish burrows from the same area. ...Fish on the menu of our ancestors
... Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, the Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Vertebrate paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing, the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and Washington University in Saint Louis has shown that this individ...Coralline algae in the Mediterranean lost their tropical element between 5 and 7 million years ago
...ts, and quite often in fossil form, particularly in relatively modern rocks", Juan C. Braga, the chief author and a researcher at the Stratigraphy and paleontology Department of the UGR explained to SINC. The study, which was published recently in Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology , describes an...American Journal of Botany named a top 10 most influential journal of the century
...al of the American Medical Association , the British Medical Journal, Journal of Zoology, American Journal of Physical Anthropology , and Journal of paleontology . ...Beaked, bird-like dinosaur tells story of finger evolution
..." said scientist James Clark of George Washington University. Clark, along with Xu Xing of the Chinese Academy of Science's Institute of Vertebrate paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing, made the discovery. Clark's graduate student, Jonah Choiniere, also was involved in analyzing the new animal. "Th...Fossil bone bed helps reconstruct life along California's ancient coastline
...he California Academy of Sciences, San Diego Natural History Museum, Buena Vista Museum of Natural History in Bakersfield, and UC Berkeley's Museum of paleontology (UCMP), where students over the years have made studies of the bone bed's extinct sea turtles, sharks, marine mammals and seabirds. Lipps is a faculty...Fossil teeth of browsing horse found in Panama Canal earthworks
...ils from the Panama Canal earthworks, Aldo Rincon, paleontology intern at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Instit...l teeth. Bruce J. MacFadden, curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Florida Museum of Natural History, Universi...ng horse, in the May 2009 issue of the Journal of paleontology . By far the most complete fossil of a horse col...Cells Exhibition Opens at Maryland Science Center
...r in Baltimore is visited by more than 500,000 people each year. Popular exhibits include: Dinosaur Mysteries with full-size dinosaurs and interactive paleontology activities; a day in the life of the human body in Your Body: The Inside Story; and dozens of interactive experiments in Newton's Alley. Other attrac...Maryland Science Center Unveils Anatomical Exhibition, Body Worlds 2, on Saturday, February 2
...r in Baltimore is visited by more than 500,000 people each year. Popular exhibits include: Dinosaur Mysteries with full-size dinosaurs and interactive paleontology activities; a day in the life of the human body in Your Body: The Inside Story; and dozens of interactive experiments in Newton's Alley. Other attract...An Argentine biotechman in Wisconsin
...rgentina on Sept. 24, 1935. He was the son of two recently arrived Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. 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 ha...