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- Fish out of water: The evolutionary crawl from sea to land
- PARIS AFP — A 370-million-year-old skull and shoulder bone from a walking fish have shed light on when and how our distant ancestors slithered out of the sea to begin a new life on terra firma. The fossilised remains belong to a beast which had the head of a...
- Research articles 2008-06-25
- Scientific row brews over mega-rat
- PARIS AFP — Palaeontologists are exchanging finely-chiselled blows over the mightiest rodent to bestride the Earth. The rat-like beast, dubbed Josephoartigasia monesi, leapt into the headlines in January, when Uruguayan experts said it weighed just over a tonne. Their estimates were based on a massive skull, found on...
- Research articles 2008-05-21
- Voting Commences to Decide Fossil Fool of the Year
- To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: Sam Haswell of RAN, +1-415-659-0519; Brianna Cayo Cotter of Energy Action Coalition, +1-415-305-1943; and Patrick Mitchell, +1-703-276-3265, for Co-op America Foolies Put Spotlight on Most Outstanding Dirty Energy Deeds SAN FRANCISCO, March 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Voting to select this years Fossil Fool of the Year...
- Research articles 2008-03-10
- EDIACARAN BIOTA ON BONAVISTA PENINSULA, NEWFOUNDLAND, CANADA
- ABSTRACT- Newly found fossils in the Conception and St. John's groups of the Bonavista Peninsula considerably extend the known geographic distribution of the Ediacaran fossils in Newfoundland. They occur in deepwater sediments and are preserved as epireliefs, forming census populations underneath volcanic ash layers throughout a more than 1 km...
- Research articles 2008-01-01
- Famous fossil heads to U.S. for controversial tour
- ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -- After 3.2 million years in East Africa, one of the world's most famous set of fossils was quietly flown out of Ethiopia overnight for a U.S. tour that some experts say is a dangerous gamble with an irreplaceable relic. Although the fossil known as...
- Research articles 2007-08-07
- Out of Africa... and into Russia
- PARIS AFP — New research backs the theory that modern humans spread out of Africa relatively recently, around 50,000 years ago, on the first step of our species' conquest of the planet. The "Out of Africa" scenario is well known but only a few hominid fossils or artefacts have emerged...
- Research articles 2007-01-12
- Current News
- Virtue of Value Is Hutch Essar, along with its Hong Kong parent, up for sale? krishna gopalan Li Ka-shing, chairman of the Hutchison Whampoa Group, has an uncanny knack of spotting a business opportunity, investing in it and getting out at huge valuations. He launched star TV in 1991...
- Research articles 2006-12-31
- Frozen rainforest
- A trove of tiny organisms fossilized in resin, including this Phoridae fly a few millimeters long, is worth its weight in gold, say the paleontologists who found the rare bounty in the western Amazonian basin. The insects, fungi, and plants trapped in the amber provide direct evidence that rainforests existed...
- Research articles 2006-09-02
- Australian fossil pushes first steps on to land back in time
- SYDNEY AFP — An Australian fossil find may mean living creatures left the world's oceans for the land much earlier than once thought, rewriting a small part of mankind's evolution, scientists said. A study of rocks collected near Buchan in Victoria state's East Gippsland has yielded a lung fish fossil...
- Research articles 2006-08-29
- Savage ancient whale was 'marine T-rex', researchers say
- SYDNEY AFP — Scientists in Australia have discovered a fossilised ancient relative of the blue whale with a fearsome razor-toothed appearance that has seen it dubbed "the T-rex of the oceans". The fossil is the latest in a list of ancient creatures including sabre-toothed kangaroos, horned "devil wallabies" and...
- Research articles 2006-08-16
- AN EXQUISITELY PRESERVED SKELETON REPRESENTING A PRIMITIVE STURGEON FROM THE UPPER CRETACEOUS JUDITH RIVER FORMATION OF MONTANA (ACIPENSERIFORMES: ACIPENSERIDAE: N. GEN. AND SP.)
- ABSTRACT- A new species of sturgeon Acipenseridae. [dagger]Psammorhynchus longipinnis n. gen. and sp., is described based on a single well-preserved specimen from the Upper Cretaceous Judith River Formation of Montana. Although based on only a single individual, the osteological detail we are able to describe for this species is extensive...
- Research articles 2006-07-01
- REVIEW OF THE FOSSIL RECORD OF STURGEONS, FAMILY ACIPENSERIDAE (ACTINOPTERYGII: ACIPENSERIFORMES), FROM NORTH AMERICA
- ABSTRACT- The pre-Pleistocene fossil record of sturgeons family Acipenseridae from North America is reviewed based on a survey of reports in the literature and firsthand examination of specimens in museum collections. We provide a redescription of the only known specimen of [dagger]Protoscaphirhynchus squamosus (Late Cretaceous, Montana), a very poorly preserved...
- Research articles 2006-07-01
- Stock Swami says, retail, and LJ International Inc.!
- M2 PRESSWIRE-29 November 2005-SessionsIR.com: Stock Swami says, retail, and LJ International Inc.!C1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:29112006 Stocks the Swami noticed: LJ International Inc. (Nasdaq: JADE), Movado Group, Inc. (NYSE: MOV), Charles & Colvard LTD. (Nasdaq: CTHR), Orange 21 Inc. (Nasdaq: ORNG)...
- Research articles 2005-11-29
- Newmark Retail's double duty
- Newmark Retail has recently completed a sublease in SoHo and an HQ expansion in Richardson, Texas, for apparel and watch retailer, Fossil. The sublease between Fossil and Foot Locker at 541 Broadway in the SoHo District of Manhattan, was arranged to Amira Yunis, Newmark Retail senior managing director Amira...
- Research articles 2005-11-02
- PALEOGENE FOSSILS AND THE RADIATION OF MODERN BIRDS
- MODERN GENERA OF birds arose mainly in the Neogene Period (1.8-23.8 mya), and modern species mainly in the Plio-Pleistocene (0.08-5.3 mya). Neogene fossil birds generally resemble modern taxa, and those that cannot be attributed to a modern genus or species can usually be placed in a modern family with a...
- Research articles 2005-10-01
- Geology collides with theology in Grand Canyon
- When one-armed Civil War hero John Wesley Powell made the first recorded boat descent of the Grand Canyon in 1869, he predicted that the gorge would prove "a Book of Revelations in the rock-leaved bible of geology."Today we're back to the literal Bible: A best-selling book in local national-park stores...
- Research articles 2005-05-01
- D3Publisher of America Releases Fossil League Dino Tournament Championship Exclusively for Nintendo DS™: Can You Dig It?
- LOS ANGELES -- D3Publisher of America, Inc. (D3PA), a publisher and developer of interactive entertainment software, today announced the release of Fossil League Dino Tournament Championship DTC exclusively for the Nintendo DS[TM]. Fossil League DTC follows the epic journey of boy action-star Taiga as he travels back in time to...
- Research articles 2007-01-16
- Time is Money. But Is It a Good Business?
- Most of us don't think twice about the fact that our cell phones also tell us the time. But if you're in the business of making and selling wristwatches, it's all you think about. In 2005, watch sales fell nearly 5 percent, to $7.6 billion. The culprit? Blame the clock...
- Blog posts 2007-03-21
- Toothsome pterosaur added to dino's diet
- PARIS AFP ? Fish-loving dinosaurs known as spinosaurs also had a taste for pterosaurs, an unusual fossil found in Brazil has shown. The fossil comprises vertebrae of the flying reptile with the tooth of a spinosaur imbedded in one of them. "Although the dinosaur did not swallow that...
- Research articles 2004-06-30
- Thousands of Industry Executives Flock to the World Cup of Technology
- Business Editors/High-Tech Writers 2003 International CES LAS VEGAS--BUSINESS WIRE--Jan. 10, 2003 2003 International CES Opens Largest Show in CES History with More Than 2,200 Exhibitors in More Than 1.2 Million Square Feet of Space Whether they came to see the latest in wireless technology, HDTV,...
- Research articles 2003-01-10
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