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About Animals / Wildlife (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
Photo © Mark A. Klingler / Carnegie Museum of Natural History. A team of paleontologists have discovered a fossil of a 123-million-year-old mammal that lived in what is now the Lianoning Province of northeastern China. The mammal, Maotherium asiaticus, was so well preserved that it has provided scientists with new insights into the evolution of the mammalian middle ear. "What is most surprising,...
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TREND HUNTER Magazine (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
(TrendHunter.com) The discovery of a fossil of a previously unknown chipmunk-sized mammal in northeastern China could potentially explain the evolution of human hearing. The 123 million year-old fossil, now referred to…
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USA Shopping Online @ 2dayplaza.com (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
Maotherium asiaticus is the name Chinese and American researchers gave to a newly discovered fossil species, which lived in the Liaoning Province of China some 123 million years ago. The chipmunk-sized creature was found in the Yixian Formation, a very rich fossil bed that had yielded countless amazing discoveries over the years. In addition to being completely new, the mammal also holds some clues...
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
Image 2: The new Cretaceous mammal Maotherium is a chipmunk-sized nocturnal mammal. It lived 123 million years ago. It had terrestrial habits and scampered around on the ground. From its skeleton it is estimated to have weighed about 70-80 grams (2 ounces), and was about 15 cm (5 inches) in length. Maotherium is a generalized ground-living mammal. Because it is related to the common ancestor of marsupials...
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
Image 2: The new Cretaceous mammal Maotherium is a chipmunk-sized nocturnal mammal. It lived 123 million years ago. It had terrestrial habits and scampered around on the ground. From its skeleton it is estimated to have weighed about 70-80 grams (2 ounces), and was about 15 cm (5 inches) in length. Maotherium is a generalized ground-living mammal. Because it is related to the common ancestor of marsupials...
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Cryptomundo.com (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
"What is most surprising, and thus scientifically interesting, is this animal's ear," study co-author Zhe-Xi Luo of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History said in a statement. Image.
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LMNOP (Free subscription) | 09/16/2009
Opportunities for dinosaur ownership just don't come up often enough these days, but Oct. 3 is looking promising. That is when, according to this article, approximately 50 "impressive, museum-quality" natural history artifacts, including some dinos, will be auctioned off at...
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Wired Science (Free subscription) | 09/14/2009
< previous image | next image >> If you ever dreamed of owning your own dinosaur, now’s your chance. Possibly the most impressive natural history auction ever is set to take place Oct. 3 at the Venetian Casino in Las Vegas. The main event will be Samson, one of the best T. rex skeletons ever found. But [...]
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Luxurylaunches.com (Free subscription) | 08/26/2009
Come October 3 and potential bidders at the Natural History Auction will have a chance to bid for a rare 66-million year old Tyrannosaurus skeleton dubbed “Samson”. The first auction by the company it will be held at the Venetian in Las Vegas. Samson is a rare example from the Cretaceous period and was excavated near Buffalo, South Dakota over 15 years ago. What is more, it also is one...
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Physorg (Free subscription) | 08/13/2009
A rare Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton, among the most complete specimens in the world, is to go on the auction block in Las Vegas in October, the auction house Bonhams & Butterfields has said.
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Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 07/29/2009
Jorg Frobisch, a Field Museum post-doctoral paleontologist, and Robert Reisz, from the University of Toronto, figured out Suminia was an early tree dweller much like Little Red Riding Hood deduced that the creature in her grandmother's bed was not Grandma but a wolf - by paying attention to its unusual physical attributes, in this case in its fossil bones."It is a relatively small animal, 20 inches...
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Why Evolution Is True (Free subscription) | 07/26/2009
On the Barnes and Noble website you can find my review of Colin Tudge’s new book, The Link — a book about the discovery and meaning of “Ida,” the fossil primate whose scientific name is Darwinius masillae. Ida was the subject of numerous blog commentaries after her unveiling in May, most of them taking issue [...]
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In the Treetop (Free subscription) | 07/23/2009
Our camping trip was a bust. We did leave, and made it about 100 miles before our motor home had to be towed back home. It MAY not be down for the count, but we won't know for awhile yet. So, not to be deterred from our summer vacation we loaded up my van, all of our CDs, clothing for five days and took off for Pittsburgh. Why Philadelphia? We had never been there, it was a reasonable drive from Michigan,...
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Archaeology in Europe (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
Remember Ida? It's been just a month since the fossil primate made her debut on the History Channel where she was called a "missing link" between humans and primitive primates and a "revolutionary scientific find that will change everything." But Ida may be robbed of her claim to that title by a new fossil primate from Asia, published today. "It shows that Ida is out of the...
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BURMA DIGEST (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
General Than Shwe, the Ape Man, a “Living Fossil” who refuses to retire from power even though he’s pushing 80. Photo-Cartoon by Feraya & Taisamyone Credit: Dr. David Law Common ancestor of humans and monkeys evolved from primates in Asia ——————————————————————————–...
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