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Fig.1. Le tracce identificati come probabili segni di un mammifero che ha rosicchiato l’osso, da MUZZIN 2010.In un comunicato di stampa provvisorio della rivista "Paleontology", paleontologi hanno annunciato la scoperta di impronte di denti di [...]
Most museum paleontology galleries follow one of three well-trodden themes. These are:1) A walk Through Time. The layout of the gallery follows the progression of geological time. I am in the Carboniferous – here is a big dragonfly and a fern; I [...]
An article on the PressConnects website explores how drilling for the Marcellus Shale is changing the landscape and lives of people in rural Bradford County, Pennsylvania. A few years ago no wells were being drilled, but 119 wells were drilled in [...]
Paul Racicot of the Le blog de Paul sent me an image of a stromatoporoid fossil from the Ordovician Period. It was found in the Beekmantown Group near Valleyfield, Quebec, Canada.For scale, he said in his message, "My colored rule makes 10 cm [...]
At the end of my last post, I said there would be more to come. Denver Fowler, PhD student in paleontology at the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, kindly answered my questions I sent to him by email regarding the new chasmosaurine, Ojoceratops. ;)
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This blog is the first in a series by Katie Inderbitzen, (former School of Rock instructor and future Physical Properties Specialist for Exp. 327) who is currently aboard the R/V Atlantis for the 2010 CORK maintenance/data collection cruise using [...]
Two strong earthquakes occurred on the north coast of Papua, Indonesia shortly after noon on Wednesday, June 16. The first was Magnitude 6.4 and the second a few minutes later was Magnitude 7.0. Early news reports indicate that damage was low for [...]
Russia is already one of the major natural gas producers in the world and they are also very interested in testing their extensive gas shale
Lutz has collected an interesting blogospheric bibliography at geoberg.de covering 'scientific papers and important articles and projects dealing with the geoblogosphere in a more universal
This is the tale of two cacti, the Senita (also known as the Old Man Cactus) and the Totem Pole cactus. You see both around town. They are intimately related and share the same scientific name, but look very different from each other.
The [...]