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Monday, 08 September 2008

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Museos, patrimonios culturales y desarrollos locales

el blog de paleoymas.com [16:11:00]

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Museos, patrimonios culturales y desarrollos locales, es el nombre de un congreso que se celebrará entre los días 13 y 14 de Noviembre de 2008 en el Museo Oiasso de Irún.El objetivo es servir de encuentro y analizar las interrelaciones entre los agentes implicados en el desarrollo local y la gestión del patrimonio cultural, asi como el papel que en ello juega la ciudadanía y los propios museos. El congreso, patrocinado por la Universidad del Pais Vasco, es gratuito y permite además un [...]

Of polyglyphanodonts and their teeth

The World We Don't Live In [09:47:00]

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Cretaceous

Most lizards aren’t particularly good chewers. Usually, food processing tends to be of the “swallow it whole” variety, with some chomping if prey proves resilient. Nevertheless, at least some lizards had a reasonable chewing apparatus, as evidenced by the latest data on the extinct polyglyphanodonts, or transversely-toothed lizards.The Polyglyphanodontinae was a Maastrichtian clade of lizards, with fossils known from Asia and North America. The best-known polyglyphanodont (and the general [...]

Oil prices: it's not about the geology

Sedimentary Basins and Petroleum Geology [00:00:00]

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This article by Nils Pratley was in this weekend's Observer. It mainly concentrates on the influence of OPEC, the cartel that controls around 40% of the worlds oil supply. It re-iterates that oil prices [...]

Shame That Apollo Doctor Didn't Say Evolution

Reporting on a Revolution [00:00:00]

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I caught a CNN IBN show on the excessive use of medicinal drugs and the dangers of over medicating. One segment was on antibiotics and the bacterial resistance to antibiotics. You can listen to the short [...]

The TR-J Terrestrial Extinction Actually Early Jurassic?

Chinleana [00:00:00]

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Jurassic,Triassic

Adam Yates most recent post over at Dracovenator and a new abstract by Zeigler and Geissman has got me thinking more about faunal transitions between the Late Triassic and Middle Jurassic. As I stated in an [...]

why I haven't been hating theropods here lately

Why I hate Theropods [00:00:00]

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There's no excuse for it! I am sorry that I haven't been around here posting non-theropod goodness of late, I have just been really busy relocating and starting classes at MU. But I'm less busy now, so don't [...]

Puzzle Time: What's the connection?

Dracovenator [00:00:00]

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Yes, see if you can guess the connection between these two

The BGS and the GSI3D conference

In Terra Veritas [00:00:00]

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Even though we were staying in Nottingham my dad and I had business down in Keyworth. Particularly with the British Geological Survey. While there we attended the GSI3D conference where issues regarding 3D [...]

Where shall we drill for oil?

Earth Learning Idea [00:00:00]

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In our latest Earthlearningidea, the diagram shows how oil and gas are formed, how they become trapped in the ground and how they may be extracted. Pupils are asked to list the events in the correct order and [...]