May 16, 2014
New burgess shale fossil site found in Canada's Kootenay National Park
With its plethora of ancient and exquisitely preserved soft-bodied fossils, the Burgess Shale in Canada’s Yoho National Park is one of the …
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May 15, 2014
Down to Earth With: Steven Stanley
It’s no wonder Steven Stanley says he can’t imagine having pursued any career other than research and teaching in geology and paleontology. After …
May 15, 2014
Dueling dinosaurs hit the auction block
In 2006, fossil collector Clayton Phipps (a Montana rancher known as the “Dinosaur Cowboy”) and his crew discovered a rare fossil on private land …
May 12, 2014
Down to Earth With: Scott Sampson
During a recent public lecture at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, dinosaur paleontologist and evolutionary biologist Scott Sampson was …
April 8, 2014
Fieldwork revises ice-free corridor hypothesis of human migration
The existence of an ice-free corridor through Canada during the climax of last glaciation, which allowed the first Americans to cross the Bering …
March 19, 2014
The trouble with turtles: Paleontology at a crossroads
Traditional paleontological research has been upended over the past few decades, as less traditional fields, such as genomics and developmental …
February 20, 2014
From boom to bust in Neolithic Europe
As agricultural practices spread from the Fertile Crescent across Europe, gradually expanding west and north starting about 8,500 years ago, they …
February 20, 2014
Brooks Ellwood and the unusual applications of magnetism
The call came out of the blue. Geophysicist Brooks Ellwood was sitting in his office in the geology department at the University of Texas at …
June 20, 2013
Blogging on EARTH: New lessons from antiquity, this time on construction
Each year, millions of visitors flock to Italy to wander among the remains of ancient Rome, where Cicero strolled and Augustus celebrated his …
January 5, 2012
Third hominin coexisted with modern humans and Neanderthals
Modern humans and Neanderthals lived side by side on the Eurasian landscape for tens of thousands of years — but it turns out they weren’t alone, …
January 5, 2012
Criminals steal London dino's dung
Blogging on EARTH A series of robberies over the past five years at London’s Natural History Museum has curators frustrated — and puzzled. From …
January 5, 2012
Blogging on EARTH: Ancient whale with a big bite named for Moby Dick author
It reads like a passage from a horror story: a monster 15 meters long with gigantic, gnashing teeth capable of tearing apart other whales. But …