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France24 (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
The fossils of five hitherto unknown bizarre-looking crocodiles which roamed the world 100 million years ago have been unearthed in the Sahara desert, US scientists revealed Thursday. The five now extinct species -- dubbed BoarCroc, RatCroc, DogCroc, DuckCroc and PancakeCroc because of their strange appearances -- were ancestors of the modern-day reptiles and evolved at the same time as dinosaurs....
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Flesh and Stone (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Paleontologists Paul Sereno and Hans Larsson today unveiled five ancient African crocodyliforms in the November National Geographic and in an extensive scientific paper published in the open access journal ZooKeys . Named BoarCroc, RatCroc, DogCroc, DuckCroc and PancakeCroc after their physical characteristics, the crocs were discovered in the Sahara by Sereno, a University of Chicago professor and...
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Physorg (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
A suite of five ancient crocs, including one with teeth like boar tusks and another with a snout like a duck's bill, have been discovered in the Sahara by National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Paul Sereno. The five fossil crocs, three of them newly named species, are remains of a bizarre world of crocs that inhabited the southern land mass known as Gondwana some 100 million years ago.
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Jungle Trader (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
National Geographic Society : A suite of five ancient crocs, including one with teeth like boar tusks and another with a snout like a duck's bill, have been discovered in the Sahara by National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Paul Sereno. The five fossil crocs, three of them newly named species, are remains of a bizarre world of crocs that inhabited the southern land mass known as Gondwana some 100...
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
BoarCroc, RatCroc, DogCroc, DuckCroc and PancakeCrocA suite of five ancient crocs, including one with teeth like boar tusks and another with a snout like a duck's bill, have been discovered in the Sahara by National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Paul Sereno. The five fossil crocs, three of them newly named species, are remains of a bizarre world of crocs that inhabited the southern land mass known...
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Tracing the Tribe (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
National Geographic's Explorer-in-Residence Dr. Spencer Wells will speak at the San Diego Natural History Museum, on Wednesday, November 11. The program begins at 6.30pm in the Charmaine and Maurice Kaplan Theater. The related exhibit is at the Museum of Man. "Deep Ancestry: Inside the Genographic Project" tackles the universal questions of who are we and where we come from. We look different,...
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Catavino (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Having finally disembarked off the National Geographic Explorer from our 5 day voyage soaring across the Atlantic, there were some key lessons learned that need to shared. I say this emphatically because if you ever ...
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Jon Rawlinson Productions (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
YVR -> YOW (that’s Ottawa) # RT @timescapes: Jannard will presumably announce shipping dates for Epic & Scarlet on Oct 30. http://tinyurl.com/yzjnnf5 (via @scottkarlins) # National Geographic explorer Dereck Joubert makes the plea for the big cats in yesterday’s @WashingtonPost http://bit.ly/juZKG # Thank god!! FTW RT @jeffscott: Facebook finally lets you block all quizzes!: http://j.mp/OZH2m...
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
Stephen Colbert sat down with National Geographic Explorer-In-Residence and author Sylvia Earle to discuss her book, The World Is Blue, which is about how vital ocean health is to the fate of the planet. She promptly tells Stephen that he moves like a dolphin, and then they move on to a pressing topic that vexes many who want to eat sustainably: what kind of seafood should people eat? Stephen suggests...
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Flesh and Stone (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
Fossils from a 9-foot-long dinosaur believed to have lived 125 million years ago have all the anatomical features of the full-size Tyrannosaurus rex but one. Dubbed Raptorex , the mini T. rex is about 100th the size of the full size Tyrannosaurus that scientists have been studying since the late 1800s. The Raptorex weighed about 150 pounds (60 kg) compared to the 6-ton T. rex. The discovery has some...
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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 09/26/2009
As she drives the streets of Elk Grove, on the way to the grocery store or the bank, Suzie Warren's sport-utility vehicle flashes a message to passersby in loud, orange paint scrawled on the back window: "FreeTheHikers.org." More than 7,000 miles from Iran, where Sarah Shourd, 31, Shane Bauer, 27, and Josh Fattal, 27, have been detained by Iranian authorities for nearly two months, Warren...
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Intelligent Travel (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
If you haven't yet snagged it, be sure to pick up a copy of the October issue of National Geographic Magazine for their incredible cover story about National Geographic explorer-in-residence Michael Fay's 11-month journey walking through the Redwoods, from Big...
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Google LatLong (Free subscription) | 09/22/2009
[National Geographic has recently begun their Ocean Now expedition to Cocos Island and the Gemelas Seamounts west of Costa Rica. We've invited National Geographic explorer Sylvia Earle to author this guest post to share stories about her submarine dives on the DeepSee to coincide with the update to our Ocean Expeditions layer , which features this expedition . --Ed.] LatLong: 5 degrees 33.424 minutes...
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Oil Is Mastery (Free subscription) | 09/18/2009
"Have the subsequently introduced species consumed the food of the great antecedent races? Can we believe that the Capybara has taken the food of the Toxodon, the Guanaco of the Macrauchenia, the existing small Edentata of their numerous gigantic prototypes? Certainly, no fact in the long history of the world is so startling as the wide and repeated exterminations of its inhabitants." --...
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 09/17/2009
WASHINGTON — About 125 million years ago a tiny version of Tyrannosaurus rex roamed what is now northeastern China. Tiny, that is, by T. rex standards – you still wouldn't want to meet it face to face. Described by paleontologist Paul Sereno as "punk size," this early predator stood about nine feet tall. It just seems small compared to the giant T. rex that evolved millions of...
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