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Tuesday, 10 September 2019
earth-pages - Research News from the Earth Sciences [19:17:30]
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Hundred of 80 thousand-years old footprints – which could only have been made by Neanderthals, have been found in a dune sand depost at Le Rozel on the Cherbourg Peninsula in Normandy, France. Their abundance and diversity has presented an … Continue reading →
A few years ago Mike Habib invited me to collaborate on a paper looking at the anatomy of the exceptionally well preserved humerus of an azhdarchid pterosaur from Dinosaur Provincial Park in Alberta. This specimen is well known as it is a partial skeleton and includes a tibia with bite marks and even a shed
The new ELI today is 'Melting ice and sea level change 1 – sea ice: does sea level change when floating sea ice melts?'
This activity investigates the impact on water levels of allowing floating ice to [...]
The lightning season in the Southeastern U.S. is almost finished for this year, but the peak season for the most powerful strokes of lightning won't begin until November, according to a newly published global [...]
More books arrived in my mailbox.
I have been looking for an updated sweeping history of life survey. Peter Ward and Joe Kirschvink have written just that book, covering topics from the origin of life to [...]
I would like to formally introduce myself as the new manager of Beyond Bones. After a full year of working front line, as we like to call it, in the Visitor Services department, I understand that this blog is [...]
The unlikely creature bearing the title of "the first whale," is a fellow named Pakicetus. He is definitely not how we picture whales living today. Pakicetus is an extinct genus of cetaceans that [...]
Mondo presenta su nueva serie de tazas tiki protagonizada por el dinosaurio más mediático: Tyrannosaurus rex. Como explican ellos mismos, tras escapar de su valla en la que se encontraba encerrado, Rexy [...]
In a (not really) surprising turn of events, Monday, the Director of the National Weather Service Louis Uccinelli and NOAA’s chief science officer publicly backed a tweet issued by the NWS office in [...]
Not what I was expecting...
I generally avoid Yosemite Valley in the summertime, and I try to avoid Saturdays especially, but I was a glutton for punishment; we hadn't been to the valley since last spring and [...]
Update 12:30 Uhr: Im Laufe des Vormittags ist der Tremor wieder gestiegen. Er befindet sich nur wenig unterhalb des Spitzenwertes von gestern und bewegt sich wieder seitwärts. Die strombolianischen Eruptionen [...]
(blog written by Olivia Finlay) The first half of this summer, I participated in Central Washington University’s Research Experience for... Read more
This image is of a Strombus sp. gastropod fossil. The fossil appears to be made of plaster/gypsum/calcium sulfate and in a translucent form. The
creature existed in the Miocene Epoch of the Neogene Period. [...]
Northumberland Fm, Upper Cretaceous Nanaimo Group
A concretion found eroding out of the grey shales at Denman Island.
Thee Upper Cretaceous Nanaimo Group of southwest British Columbia is a >4 km-thick [...]
¡¡Segundo día de excavación!! La jornada de hoy ha sido diversa y entretenida. Hemos abierto sesión con las explicaciones de Laura para aprender a proceder en el yacimiento correctamente, cómo excavar, [...]
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