Largest Tyrannosaur Fossil Unearthed In Montana
A fossilized skeleton believed to be the largest specimen of aTyrannosaur ever unearthed was found this summer by a field crew headed by J.Keith Rigby, a University of Notre Dame paleontologist. The fossil, which hasbeen only partially excavated, lies in a vast dinosaur ...Notre Dame Paleontologist Finds Damage Done To T. rex Skull
...Montana cattle ranch where the fossilized dinosaur skeleton was found, according to University of Notre Dame p...teers from the Earthwatch Institute discovered the skeleton this summer in a vast dinosaur graveyard near the Fort Peck Reservoir. The fossil, which was nearly...Study Shows: Just Say NO To Bone Loss
...." But if the osteoclasts get the upper hand, the skeleton loses too much bone,leading to osteoporosis or inflammatory bone disease. As for the naughty (and nice) nitric oxide, there are actually three differentenzymes that produce the molecule, and these are regulated in different ways. One is called consti......2 million years ago. Lucy is the name given to the skeleton of a small female Australopithecus afarensis found by Donald Johanson in Ethiopia in 1974. The skeleton is about 40 percent complete, which is unusually rare among early human ancestors. Many species, inc...Human Bone Disorder Reproduced In Mice
... eventually end up at sites that form parts of the skeleton of theface and limbs, areas of the skin, and tissue components of various endocrineglands. The crippling bone disturbances were of particular interest to Drs. Bianco andGehron Robey. MAS patients have regions of bone in which normal marrow has beenr......atops, Stegosaurus and the first Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton everdiscovered and only one of eight known. The entire dinosaur collection containsapproximately 500 specimens and is the third largest in the world. The museum began collecting the giant fossils in 1898 after Carnegieread a newspaper articl...Master Molecule Forms Brains In Frogs And Elbows In Mice
...isel (as yet unidentified) cuts the coarsely drawn skeleton into its final form. If there is too much BMP activity, according to Harland, that carving simply doesn't occur. Noggin prevents an excess of BMP action throughout the skeleton, and in the joints, he added, "allows the sculptor to get to work." Comp...Blindness Linked To The Cytoskeleton?
... in beta-tubulin folding. Tubulins build up the skeleton of cells, and assure internal cellular transport as well as cell division. If this homology turns out to be of functional relevance, then RP2 is the first example of hereditary blindness where a malfunction of the cytoskeleton forms the...Engineering Animation, Inc. Demonstrates Internet Anatomy At Visible Human Project Conference
...e at a time by moving the cursor, revealinga human skeleton with a simple click of the mouse." said Jacobson. "InternetAnatomy provides many of the benefits of working with a cadaver-becauseyou are looking at 3D models created from real human data-but unlike acadaver dissection, this resource allows you to ob...Smoke breathes new life into a forest
...s left after the last ember dies out is a charred, skeleton forest. Yet the next generation of forest lies beneath the scorched soil as once dormant seeds are awakened. In the October issue of Ecology, scientists investigate the mechanisms behind fire-triggered seed germination, and focus specifically on t...Discovery Of New Large, Predatory Dinosaur Reported In Science
...ocodile, and "tener" refers to thedesert where the skeleton was found.) According to reconstructions, Suchomi...e, their discovery of the mostcomplete spinosaurid skeleton yet was somewhat of a surprise. "We had been looking for really excellent fossils, not just of dinos...Allelix drug increases bone density and content in women with osteoporosis
...y, no approved osteoporosis treatments rebuild the skeleton in themanner that ALX1-11 does. ALX1-11 was tested as part of the age related experiments conducted by NASAduring the Space Shuttle Discovery mission that launched Oct. 29. Theexperiments examined the effects of microgravity on animal bone cells and...First Complete Fossil Of Fierce Prehistoric Predator Found In South Africa
...il beds on Earth, this is the firstcomplete gorgon skeleton found. The South African Museum's collection of morethan 12,000 skeletons from the Karoo, a desert region, includes several hundredgorgon specimens, but none approach the completeness of the latest find. Gorgonfossils also have been found in China an...Seabed Silt In Indian Ocean Consists Of Remains Of Summer Plankton
...rprised to find that 95% of the plankton's silicon skeleton dissolves just above the deep sea bed soon after arrival. Most of the organic carbon originating from dead plankton flocs is processed biologically in this layer. Only in areas with a low oxygen concentration closer to the shore, the organic carbon e...Walker named a Fellow of the British Royal Society
...akey describing and analyzing a famousHomo erectus skeleton was awarded the Association of American Publishers' Prizefor Best Book in Sociology and Anthropology in 1993. In 1997 a book hecoauthored with his wife, Pat Shipman, Penn State adjunct professor ofanthropology, won the General Prize in the Rhone-Pou...Primate genus sheds light on great ape and human origins, as reported in Science
...nexquisitely preserved 15 million year old partial skeleton of an ancient ape.The new genus Equatorius , repo... National Museums of Kenya came uponthe Kipsaramon skeleton after searching uphill from a large number of isolatedteeth that had washed into a gully at the site...Scientists document most recent date for Neandertals
...en theycame into contact. "Not only do we have the skeleton of a child in Portugal showing characteristicsof common descent, but now we have evidence of the two groups coinciding incentral Europe for several millennia allowing plenty of time for the populationsto mix," said Trinkaus, a Washington University p...Giant plant-eating dinosaur found; two cast skeletons to be unveiled
...g and studying the bones. "With 95 percent of its skeleton preserved, the new species stands as the most complete long-necked dinosaur ever discovered from the Cretaceous period," said Sereno. The new dinosaur, named Jobaria tiguidensis, lived about 135 million years ago in the Cretaceous, when open forest...Scientists discover 66-million-year-old dinosaur with a heart
...led a heart, but we couldn't tell for certain. The skeleton was compressed and not in precise anatomical order due to being buried for 66 million years in sandstone," says Paul Fisher, director of the vet school's Biomedical Imaging Resource Facility. "But once the computer software put all the 2-D images tog......hors test the potential of using the massive basal skeleton of sclerosponges as a new paleoenvironmental recor...ns on a 223-yr-long profile through the calcareous skeleton of a Caribbean Ceratoporella nicholsoni were analyzed using the high-resolution laser-ablation micro...