Strange South American Fossil Mammals Found In Madagascar And India
...ause. Krause has led large-scale NSF-funded paleontological expeditions to Madagascar for three years. Krause's team has discovered a spectacular array of well-preserved and extraordinarily complete skeletal material of crocodiles, birds, dinosaurs and other backboned animals in Madagascar. Despite finding ...A bizarre new predatory dinosaur unearthed on Madagascar
...ing a dinosaur after a musician is hardly standard paleontological practice-indeed this is likely a first-the expedition crew thought the decision to be entirely appropriate. As Sampson puts it, "Finding fossils entails a heavy dose of serendipity, and we'll take good luck any way we can get it! Masiakasaurus shar...New technique illuminates events obscured in the geologic record
...l time for the program to be fully integrated into paleontological studies. "One of the most fascinating things about this little exercise is how people in the scientific community react to it," he says. "There are some people who are still apprehensive of computers. Other paleontologists may not appreciate it bec...Discovery of 'tidal giant'--a new Egyptian dinosaur--reported in Science
...o marks the revival of Egypt's Bahariya Oasis as a paleontological treasure trove. In the early 20th century, teams led by German geologist Ernst Stromer uncovered a wealth of Late Cretaceous fossils at the site, including four dinosaur species, but the fossils were destroyed during an Allied attack on Munich in Wor...Penn paleontologists locate a new genus of colossal dinosaur along an ancient coastline
...ents. The Bahariya Oasis was the site of extensive paleontological research a century ago: German expeditions led by ...9. "The rediscovery of the original Bahariya Oasis paleontological site has allowed a new glimpse into the age of dinosaurs in northern Africa," said Thomas R. Holtz, ...Montana drought sends paleontologists to field early for largest project in state's history
...rivate donors. "To my knowledge, it's the largest paleontological field operation, certainly ever in Montana. I don't know any other project in paleontology history that has been this expansive. It's really kind of exciting." The Hell Creek survey began in 1999 and will cover hundreds of miles, Leiggi said. The fi...Soil suggests early humans lived in forests instead of grasslands
...nvironments. The analysis was of fossil soils from paleontological sites in the Middle Awash region of Ethiopias rift valley, where the remains of a new subspecies of Ardipithecus ramidus have been discovered. They date to the late Miocene period (5.4 million to 5.8 million years ago). Scientists from four institu...Rafting rodents from Africa may have been ancestors of South American species
...tions are considerably older than suggested by the paleontological evidence. We're seeking answers by using molecular data to address these questions." Honeycutt, his Ph.D. student, Diane Rowe, and a former student, Ron Adkins from the University of Massachusetts, are using genetics to study the evolution of South ...Earliest evidence of lemurs discovered in Pakistan, far from their current home, Science reports
...ord for lemurs, making their pre-Madagascar days a paleontological blank slate. Marivaux, Jean-Jacques Jaeger of Univ...ceive more serious attention, but I think that the paleontological solution to this enigma is still in the future," says Marivaux. Bugtilemur was recovered from a si...Ancient supernova may have triggered eco-catastrophe
...sters thesis on microscopic algae, to learn if the paleontological record included an extinction that had unusual cha... theory, while provocative, is consistent with the paleontological evidence, and also with the pattern of movement of the Scorpius-Centaurus group, which would have be...New species clarifies bird-dinosaur link
...ears, Dr. Chang has helped raise the standards for paleontological inquiry in China, says Lance Grande, PhD, curator ...na, thereby broadening the scope and importance of paleontological sciences there. Dr. Makovicky plans to conduct collaborative fieldwork in China to look for more fos...DNA shows genetic variability of the nene lost more than 500 years ago, not during the 20th century
...rbon dated at 160 to 500 years ago; and bones from paleontological sites dating from 500 to 2540 radiocarbon years be...ariation typical of contemporary geese only in the paleontological samples. "We were expecting to see evidence of the loss of genetic variation first in the museum spe...Dinosaur discoveries in Montana
... Natural History is one of the leading centers for paleontological research in the world. Paleobiologists at the Museum of Natural History investigate many areas of study, including how long-term physical changes of ancient global geography and climate have affected the evolution of plants and animals, how ecosyste...Human evolution at the crossroads: Integrating genetics and paleontology
...AAAS session reflects a desire to "see integrative paleontological and genetic approaches as the norm rather than the... who discussed efforts to understand contradictory paleontological and genetic phylogenies; Chi-hua Chiu of Rutgers University, who gave a developmental genetics persp...