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Fossil

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Name: Fossil

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 20 hours ago - 31 Documents

Three ancient crocodile species found (AAP)

A six-metre long crocodile with three sets of fangs - like wild boar tusks - roamed parts of northern Africa millions of years ago, researchers report.While this fearsome creature hunted meat, not far away another newly found type of croc with a wide, ... [Yahoo! News Australia - 20 hours ago]

Entities: Species, Niger, Araripesuchus, National Geographic Society, Paul Sereno

First Reported 12 hours ago - Updated 5 hours ago - 6 Documents (in Earth Science)

Ancient crocodiles filled different, often scary, niches

Crocodiles have a nasty reputation, but the leathery, snappish critters have been around so long that they probably gave dinosaurs a fright too.On Thursday, University of Chicago paleontologist Paul Sereno and his colleague at McGill University in Montreal, ... [Los Angeles Times - 5 hours ago]

Entities: Fossil, Niger, Species, Araripesuchus, Paul Sereno

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 7 Documents

Statistical Analysis Shows Hobbits are New Human Species

Â Cast of a Homo floresiensis skull Courtesy of Ryan Somma/American Museum of Natural History Researchers have confirmed that Homo floresiensis is a genuine ancient human species and not a descendant of healthy humans dwarfed by disease. Using statistical ... [Scientific Computing - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Species, Homo Floresiensis, Fossil, Absolute Height, Royal Statistical Society

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 19 hours ago - 4 Documents

Tracking A Mass Extinction Via Mastodon Poop

The Younger Dryas period was an era of extinctions and ecosystem change that occurred just prior to the end of the last ice age. It's also a hot area of research right now, with some researchers suggesting that a comet or meteor struck the earth over ... [ArsTechnica - 19 hours ago]

Entities: Ecosystem, Herbivore, Mass Extinction

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11 hours ago - 3 Documents (in Earth Science)

Extinction Rates Higher In Open-Ocean Settings During Mass Extinctions

Environmental selectivity during three of the ‘Big Five’ mass extinction events focus of two paleontologists’ latest research.Arnie Miller, University of Cincinnati professor of paleontology in the McMicken College of Arts & Sciences, and co-author Michael ... [Red Orbit - 11 hours ago]

Entities: Fossil, Michael Foote, Sediment

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 1 Documents (in Environment)

SunPower Corporation

Four Megawatts of Solar Power to Grace Southern Italy

Solar power counts a lot of proponents, but until recently it has not become a major source of energy due to its higher cost over fossil fuel-generated electricity.But governmental subsidies and increased venture capital support has brought a flurry of ... [Epoch Times - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Solar Power, SunPower Corporation, Italy

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 1 Documents (in Internet & IT)

American mammoths 'not killed off by a giant meteor strike'

Americas woolly mammoths and giant beavers were not killed off by a giant meteor strike, a new study suggests. By Kate Devlin Published: 7:50AM GMT 20 Nov 2009 Instead the animals became extinct gradually, dying out over the course of more than 1,000 ... [Telegraph - 11/20/2009]

Entities: University of Wisconsin-Madison, Pollen, Fossil

First Reported 12 hours ago - Updated 12 hours ago - 1 Documents (in Environment)

Britain hit by floods after record rainfall

WET SPOT: A firefighter wades through flood water in Keswick, northern England.Relevant offersNew fossils reveal a crocodile world Uk investigates spread of drug resistant swine flu Transsexual in Italian political scandal murdered Fugitive murder ... [Sunday Star Times - 12 hours ago]

Entities: Flooding, England, United Kingdom

First Reported 20 hours ago - Updated 20 hours ago - 1 Documents

British Geological Survey free guided tours

THE British Geological Survey in Keyworth is running free guided tours of its National Archive holdings on Saturday, December 5.There will be ten 90-minute tours during the day which take in the Library, the Fossil Museum, the National Geological Records ... [Nottingham Evening Post - 20 hours ago]

Entities: British Geological Survey, Natl Archive, Fossil

First Reported 17 hours ago - Updated 17 hours ago - 1 Documents (in Biology)

Dinosaur Fossils Helicoptered Out of Southern Utah

Late Cretaceous dinosaur fossils were helicoptered out of The Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah this week. The bones transported from the site site represent a Gryposaurus monumentensis, an ankylosaur, a pterosaur, dinosaur-era ... [Discovery Channel - 17 hours ago]

Entities: Fossil, Species, Arid, Ecology, SKELETON

First Reported 15 hours ago - Updated 15 hours ago - 1 Documents (in Biology)

According To The Statistical Analysis Of Fossils 'Hobbits' Are A New Human Species

Researchers from Stony Brook University Medical Center in New York have confirmed that Homo floresiensis is a genuine ancient human species and not a descendant of healthy humans dwarfed by disease. Using statistical analysis on skeletal remains of a ... [Medical News Today - 15 hours ago]

Entities: Species, Fossil, Homo Floresiensis

First Reported 13 hours ago - Updated 13 hours ago - 1 Documents (in Environment)

Biodiesel's Energy Efficiency Only Getting Better

Rising soybean yields have had a significant impact on biodieselâ€™s energy efficiency. In fact, new research from the University of Idaho and the USDA indicates that the fossil energy ratio (FER) of soybean-based diesel could reach 4.69 units of energy ... [Farm Industry News - 13 hours ago]

Entities: Biodiesel, Fossil, Diesel, University of Idaho

Quotes

...Peter Makovicky, chairman of Chicago's Field Museum geology department and a dinosaur specialist, who had no role in Sereno and Larsson's research. "Until now, the only place you saw diversity like this in crocodiles was in the Mesozoic [a geologic era 245 to 65 million ago] in Madagascar and South America. It's pretty interesting to see some of these animals spending a lot their time on land, some of them eating plants" Makovicky said...

Ancient crocodiles filled different, often scary, niches [Los Angeles Times - 5 hours ago]

He did know that those bones, plants, birds, fossils and bugs $ "useless junk," the Beagle captain claimed $ were clues to what he called "the mystery of mysteries $ the first appearance of new beings on this earth."

Survival Of Darwin's Theories [Investors Business Daily - 7 hours ago]

...Next came weight reduction, and today everybody is looking at how the process affects the environment. "Environmental issues have come to the forefront, and where possible we are developing cartons made of paperboard, a renewable fibre-based resource, to replace fossil materials" says Matthias Welp

Innovative and Prestigious Edelmann Cuts Loose with Korsn [Packaging-Gateway.com - 13 hours ago]

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Environment biodiesel law updated in Hong Kong [Xinhua News Agency - 15 hours ago]
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Copenhagen 24/7: An interactive TV livestream l... [digital opportunity channel - 20 hours ago]

Blogs

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Bob Dinneen: Reminding Al Gore: 5 'Encouraging ... [The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - 2 hours ago] Having an appreciation for Al Gore's commitment to science and advocacy of responsible policies on energy, the environment, and the economy, I was disappointed ...
Face to faith: The real challenge to the biblic... [Comment is free \| guardian.co.uk - 8 hours ago] The real challenge to the biblical literalism held dear by creationists is in the Bible itselfAn academic conference in Louisville, Kentucky, provided me with an ...
Dung Fungus Provides New Evidence in Mammoth Ex... [Wired: Wired Science - 11/19/2009] The latest evidence in the disappearance of the mammoths, and nine other North American species weighing over a ton, comes from fossilized dung fungus. But despite ...
Tiny "Flores Man" of Indonesia declar... [Boing Boing - 11/19/2009] Homo floresiensis was a kind of adorably tiny human being that lived on the island of Flores up until 18,000 years ago. Nature says "These astonishing little people, ...
Why Exaggerate Global Warming? Cop15 Failure An... [The Market Oracle - 11/19/2009] Since late summer, several OECD country leaders in the G20 group have stridently backed their proposals for radical cuts in global CO2 emissions, by waving the spectre ...

Audio/Video

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Richard Dawkins - The Evidence for Evolution [Mefeedia Video Tag : biolo - 10/30/2009]
2009-10-31 The eyes have it! Deep time and futu... [Mefeedia Video Tag : evoluti - 10/30/2009]
Reptile fossil provides missing link [Reuters Video: Top News - 10/28/2009]
Why Richard Dawkins Doesn't Debate Creationists [Mefeedia Video Tag : evoluti - 10/28/2009]
Why Richard Dawkins Doesn't Debate Creationists [Mefeedia Video Tag : biolo - 10/28/2009]

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