Blog Profile / Paleoblog
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| Filed Under: | Biology / Paleontology | |
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| Archived Since: | March 12, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
Albertadromeus syntarus, New Ornithopod from Alberta
New data on the diversity and abundance of smallbodied ornithopods (Dinosauria, Ornithischia) from the Belly River Group (Campanian) of Alberta. 2013. Brown, C.M., et al. Journal of Vert. Paleo. 33: 495-520. Image © Julius Csytonyi More info here
Acrotholus audeti, a New Pachycephalosaur from Alberta
The oldest North American pachycephalosaurid and the hidden diversity of small-bodied ornithischian dinosaurs. 2013. D.C. Evans, et al. Nature Communications Read more here
Ray Harryhausen 1920-2013
Ray Harryhausen passed away today. No doubt his spirit is roaming a jungle somewhere "way west of Sumatra" with Willis, Merian, Ernest, Ruth, and Carl Denham looking for giant gorillas!The Ray & Diana Harryhausen Foundation
Died This Day: Comte Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon
Buffon (Sept. 7, 1707 – April 16, 1788) was a French naturalist, who formulated a crude theory of evolution and was the first to suggest that the earth might be older than suggested by the Bible. In 1739 he was appointed keeper of the Jardin du Roi, a post he occupied until his death. Show More Summary
Died This Day: Rosalind Franklin
Image and a nice overview of her work on DNA Rosalind Franklin (July 25, 1920 - Apr. 16, 1958) was an English scientist who contributed to the discovery of the molecular structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), a constituent of chromosomes that serves to encode genetic information. Show More Summary
Published This Day: DNA Double Helix
From Today in Science History:On this day in 1953, the journal Nature published a paper from Francis Crick and James Watson, titled Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid, in which they described a double helix structure for DNA.Download the paper from Nature HERE.
Geological Time Scale First Proposed (1714)
Geological Time Scale In 1759, Italian geologist Giovanni Arduino (1714-1795) dated a letter to Professor A.Vallisneri the younger, in which Arduino proposed a classification of Earth's surface rocks according to four brackets of successively younger orders: Primary, Secondary, Tertiary and Quaternary. Show More Summary
The End Triassic Extinction
Zircon U-Pb geochronology links the end-Triassic extinction with the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province. Blackburn, T.J., et al., Science, published on-line 21 March 2013 image More than 200 million years ago, a massive extinction decimated...Show More Summary
Scrappy Little Jaw
The Ottawa, ON, based band <><>>>>> (aka The Band Whose Name is A Symbol, aka TBWNIS) will shortly be releasing their new vinyl-only LP, Scrappy Little Jaw. Yes, that scrappy little jaw on the cover is the holotype of Gryphoceratops.If you want to pick up a copy of this limited edition beauty contact John at Birdman Sound.
The Brainless Origin of The Head
The bilaterian head patterning gene six3/6 controls aboral domain development in a cnidarian. 2013. Sinigaglia, C., et al. PLoS Biology 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001488. In a simple, brainless sea anemone, the same genes that control head development in higher animals regulate the development of the front end of the swimming larvae. Show More Summary
Bads News on Jobs for Recent Ph.D.s
Read the article at The Atlantic: The Ph.D Bust: America's Awful Market for Young Scientists—in 7 Charts
Born This Day: Barnum Brown
Feb. 12, 1873 – Feb. 5, 1963 Photo © AMNH From the AMNH bio:The greatest dinosaur hunter of the twentieth century was Barnum Brown, who began his career at the American Museum of Natural History in 1897 as an assistant to Henry Fairfield Osborn. Show More Summary
Born This Day: Charles Darwin
Feb. 12, 1809 – April 19, 1882 stamp More about Darwin HERE.
Published This Day: Steno Recognizes the Organic Origin of Fossils
From Today In Science History:In 1667, a classic paleontological paper by Nicolaus Steno was published by the Royal Society, London. His topic, Head of a shark dissected, represented the first such scientific paper to recognise that fossils were the remains of creatures who had died and subsequently had become petrified. Show More Summary
Asteroid Did Kill The Dinosaurs
Time Scales of Critical Events Around the Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary. 2013. P.R. Renne, et al. Science 339: 684-687. Abstract: Mass extinctions manifest in Earth's geologic record were turning points in biotic evolution. We present...Show More Summary
Published This Day: Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication by Darwin
From Today In Science History:In 1868, Charles Darwin's book - Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication - was published. He was 58. It is probably the second in importance of all his works. This was a follow-up work, written in response to criticisms that his theory of evolution was unsubstantiated. Show More Summary
The Good Old Days of Dinosaur Provincal Park
As I was sorting through some old photos (circa 2000) I set aside some taken not all that long ago when the field station in DPP was the center for some cool palaeo-research. Above is outcrop right beside the field station that shows the contact between the Dinosaur Park and Oldman formations. Show More Summary
Sheep Taphonomy
Photo and caption by Johannes Bojesen The sheep had drowned while trying to cross a small canal in the meadow-swamp 'Tøndermasken' in southern Jylland in Denmark. Birds had eaten every part above the surface and everything under was left totally untouched. Photo location: Tøndermarsken, Tønder, Denmark. From the 2012 National Geographic Photo Contest
Abstracts due for Vertebrate Paleontology session at North-Central GSA, 2013
You're invited to present at the GSA North-Central Section 47th Annual Meeting in Kalamazoo, Michigan, 2–3 May 2013. Evan Scott (ees20 at case dot edu.) and I (mryan at cmnh dot org) will be co-convening session T22, Topics in Vertebrate Paleontology. Show More Summary
Stalking Attenborough
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