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Science Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday
It's a frequent scene in television crime dramas: Clever police technicians zoom in on a security camera video to read a license plate or capture the face of a hold-up artist. But in real life, enhancing this low-quality video to focus in on important clues hasn't been an easy task. Until now. Researchers in Israel have developed a new video "perfection tool" to help investigators enhance...
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Science Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday
Researchers have discovered a technique to safely handle and transport white phosphorous.
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Laelaps (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
On the 31st of May, 1984, the late evolutionary theorist John Maynard Smith appraised the field of paleontology in the journal Nature . The report was a critical summary of a series of lectures Stephen Jay Gould had given at Cambridge, and Gould considered it "the kindest and most supportive critical commentary I have ever received." Smith wrote; The attitude of population geneticists to...
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
Scientists in Australia have reported the discovery of three new species, including one agile predator that lived 98 million years ago.Writing in the peer-reviewed journal, PLoS ONE, Scott Hocknull and colleagues at the Queensland Museum and the Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum of Natural History noted the discovery of two large herbivorous sauropods and one carnivorous theropod in the Winton Formation...
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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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Laelaps (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
A somewhat tamarin-like restoration of Ganlea megacania . By Mark A. Klingler of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. It seems that almost every time a new fossil primate is announced the first question everyone asks is "Is it one of our ancestors?" Nevermind that it is all but impossible to identify direct ancestors and descendants in the vertebrate fossil record (including primates)....
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
This month environmental initiatives nurtured green shoots in the economy, which returned the favour with slower growth They're still out there, the deniers, but they become increasingly exotic. And excuses for inaction on global warming become stranger. One I found would have us believe that spending on wind farms was responsible globally for "killing millions" through the misallocation...
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Laelaps (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
Earlier this week I had the pleasure of answering a few questions for the Paw Talk blog about dinosaurs, blogging, and kittens. You can check it out here (and many thanks to Ava for inviting me to participate!). Read the comments on this post...
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Laelaps (Free subscription) | 06/30/2009
At the end of the day today the University of Wyoming Geological Museum is going to be closed . The museum and the paleontologists who worked there are victims of state budget cuts , and the spirited effort to keep the museum open did not get top-level administrators to change their minds. The closure of the museum is still a shock to paleontologist Brent Breithaupt, who worked hard to make it what...
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Ask Slashdot (Free subscription) | 06/30/2009
Hugh Pickens writes "Cosmologist Adrian Mellott has an article in Seed Magazine discussing his search for the mechanism behind the mass extinctions in earth's history that seem to occur with a period of about 62 million years. Scientists have identified nearly 20 mass extinctions throughout the fossil record, including the end-Permian event about 250 million years ago that killed off about 95...
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National Geographic (Free subscription) | 06/30/2009
A stunningly preserved dinosaur has skin like that of modern birds and crocodiles, a paleontologist says. "This is the closest you're going to get to patting the animal."
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 06/30/2009
In a northern Kentucky museum, a tour of alternative answers.
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Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 06/29/2009
All Politics Wasn't Local on Climate Vote -- Taegan Goddard's Political Wire CQ Politics notes White House adviser David Axelrod said he believed "will probably be dealt with in the fall" after work is completed on health care overhaul. A Very, Very Bad Bill, Passed Without Understanding. « American Elephants ...With all due respect, this is absolute nonsense. The Waxman-Markey Climate...
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EvolutionBlog (Free subscription) | 06/29/2009
For me the big paleontology conference began on Wednesday morning when a group of us gathered to go to the Creation Museum. There were a couple of luminaries in attendence, including Eugenie Scott: I have made several visits to the museum, and it has been crowded each time. But even I was taken aback by the mob scene that greeted us. Things were so clogged it was sometimes hard to work your way through...
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Laelaps (Free subscription) | 06/26/2009
I have been thoroughly enjoying my copy of The Paleobiological Revolution (edited by David Sepkoski and Michael Ruse), so much so that it has inspired me to get to work on some new academic papers. I will post a review of the book sometime this weekend, but here is a quote that is going to be very important to my discussion from G.G. Simpson's 1944 masterpiece Tempo and Mode in Evolution : The attempted...
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