Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
U.S. paleontologists who search for dinosaur fossils in Eastern Montana can now chemically analyze fossils on site the same day they're excavated.
Physorg (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
Scientists who dig dinosaurs in Eastern Montana will now be able to chemically analyze fossils the same day they're excavated and before degrading begins.
Science Daily (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
Scientists who dig dinosaurs in Eastern Montana will now be able to chemically analyze fossils the same day they're excavated and before degrading begins. They'll also use cranes to excavate entire skeletons.
New West Network Cities: Idaho Nort (Free subscription) | 05/21/2008
Being able to see the stars overhead, keeping clarity of our neighborhood rivers and having enough water for the Gallatin Valley to drink is a question of many residents. These subjects and more will be discussed at a free Gallatin Valley Speaker Series presentation at the Museum of the Rockies, May 28 at 7 p.m. The challenge of managing population growth in the Valley while maintaining air and water...
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 04/30/2008
By RANDOLPH E SCHMID More proof emerges that birds, dinosaurs are family WASHINGTON -- It looks like chickens deserve more respect. Scientists are fleshing out the proof that today's broiler- fryer is descended from the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex.
YubaNet.com (Free subscription) | 04/25/2008
Scientists have put more meat on the theory that dinosaurs' closest living relatives are modern-day birds. Molecular analysis, or genetic sequencing, of a 68-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex protein from the dinosaur's femur confirms that T. rex shares a common ancestry with chickens, ostriches, and to a lesser extent, alligators.
ABC News (Free subscription) | 04/24/2008
Scientists study evidence that modern birds came from dinosaurs.
PALAEOBLOG (Free subscription) | 03/28/2008
Structural mechanics of pachycephalosaur crania permitted head-butting behavior . 2008. Eric Snively and Andrew Cox. Paleontologia Electronica 11 (Free PDF HERE ) Dome-headed pachycephalosaurus might have passed through a combative teenage stage in which they butted heads in violent clashes. Our friend, Eric Snively , is in the news again. Since I can’t find the press release on either the U of A or...
Execupundit.com (Free subscription) | 03/19/2008
Take a science break and read David Ewing Duncan's exploration of whether you're a T-Rex or a chicken . An excerpt: In the basement of Bozeman's Museum of the Rockies, I'm running my fingertips over a stump of the T-rex's cool, hard femur bone, or what's left after scientists sliced up and pulverized most of it in search of microspecks of soft tissue that should have decayed eons ago. Instead, paleontologists...
artdiamondblog.com (Free subscription) | 02/15/2008
Source of graphic: the online version of the WSJ article quoted and cited below. (p. A1) JORDAN, Mont. -- Prospecting in Montana's badlands, rock ax in hand, paleontologist Jack Horner picks up a piece of the jawbone of a dinosaur. He...
Eyes (Free subscription) | 02/13/2008
I thought this was interesting, (from UC Berkley ) "A current topic in paleontology that has received much popular press is the question of whether T.rex (or other Tyrannosauridae in general) were predators or scavengers. Let's explore this issue. Paleontologist Jack Horner of the Museum of the Rockies (Bozeman, MT) has proposed that T.rex could not have been a predator. His arguments against predation...
PALAEOBLOG (Free subscription) | 01/16/2008
Baasanjav Ugtbayar, left, and Minjin Chuluun record data from a Mongolian field site. Chuluun is a paleontology and geology professor at Mongolian University Science and Technology. (Photo courtesy of Bolortsetseg Minjin). From the press release : Jack Horner has flown to Mongolia the past three summers to search for dinosaur bones. Now three members of his field crew have joined him at Montana State...
Travelblog (Free subscription) | 01/14/2008
Life has been busy holidays work packing...and a vacation Yes I took a vacation right before moving. Makes perfect sense. I've been to Montana before but in the summer. It was hard to recognize the landscape after winter changed it so much. I was based in Bozeman visiting a friend of mine who moved back up there for college. While I was up there I hung around the town tried out skiing for t
GOAT - A High Country News Blog (Free subscription) | 12/29/2007
And Montana's Ameya Preserve is the latest evidence.
