Tag: paleontology
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Thomas Carr: Decoding Dinosaurs at Carthage
By Mary Fairchild Last week, we had the pleasure of dining with Thomas Carr and his wife Belinda prior the ESCONI general meeting where we were delighted to hear him speak on his important work at Carthage. “‘Dinosaurs Decoded” premiered Oct. 11, 2009, on the National Geographic Channel. The documentary features Prof. Carr, a vertebrate…
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Got These Mazon Fossils? Please Bring to Paleo Meeting
Paleontology Study Group. 7:30 p.m. College of Dupage, Building K, Rm 161. Topic: The Paleontology of Pets (Dogs, Cats, Guinea Pigs) by David Carlson, ESCONI member. Also, will be photographing Mazon Creek specimens. Looking for the following: Didontaogaster; tummy tooth worms, Paucijaculum; arrow worms, Eurypterids, Amynilyspes; pill millipedes, Etacystis; H, Shark poop: spiral poop, Dasyleptus;…
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Friday – General Meeting – “Tyrannosaur Research”
ESCONI General Meeting. 8:00 p.m. College of Dupage, Building K, Rm 161. Thomas Carr from the Dinosaur Discovery Museum will speak on “Tyrannosaur research and the bird evolution gallery at the Dinosaur Discovery Museum”.
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Fish Poop Mud
Via The Scientist: Seafloor sediment composed of ground up shells and coral also contains a significant amount of fish poop, according to new research published on February 21 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences….
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Highest Dinosaur Specimen
From University of Alberta: “… An expedition to Antarctica has finally unearthed a unique dinosaur species, that though first discovered more than 20 years ago, remained buried until now. University of Alberta paleontologist Phil Currie has just returned from the Trans-Antarctic Mountains, straddling the Antarctic Circle, where he says the creature, a unique meat-eating dinosaur…
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Titanoceratops
Via Smithsonian.com: Many unknown dinosaurs await discovery in rock formations all over the world, but some new species are hiding in plain sight. One such animal, described in an in-press Cretaceous Research paper, had one of the largest heads of any dinosaur….the Sam Noble specimen may not be a Pentaceratops at all. Longrich lists 22…
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Events for Weekend 2/18 – 2/20, 2011
Fri. 2/18 – Physics Family Science Night, Elgin Public Museum, Elgin, 6-8 PM; Fee: $2 per person, no registration required. Sat. 2/19 – Opening of new exhibit at Burpee Museum in Rockford IL – Giants! African Dinosaurs. Sat. 2/19 – Rock & Mineral Identification, Lizzadro Museum of Lapidary Art, Elmhurst, 8 yrs to adult, 10:30…
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Specimens Needed for Photography at April Paleo Meeting
We are going to begin photographing Mazon specimens again for the animal book at April Paleo Meeting. Here are the specimens that members can bring on April 16th: Didontogaster; tummy tooth worms Paucijaculum; arrow worms Eurypterids Amynilyspes; pill millipedes Etacystis; H Shark poop; spiral poop Dasyleptus; silverfish insect; Fish scales Esconicthys; fish Rhabdoderma especially with…
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Amber Yields Clues to the History of Oxygen in Earth’s Atmosphere
Via geology.com: Gas bubbles trapped in amber show an oxygen-rich Cretaceous atmosphere Republished from an information release posted by USGS in June, 2009. In addition: amber in India’s Cambay area has new information too.
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ESCONI This Weekend
Saturday, Oct. 16, Paleontology Study Group Meeting. 7:30 p.m. College of Dupage, Building K, Rm 161. (note room change)
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ESCONI Events This Weekend
Friday, Oct. 8, 8:00 p.m.– ESCONI General Meeting. Speaker: Paul Mayer, Invertebrate Collections Manager at the Field Museum. His talk will be entitled “The Milwaukee Formation: Rocks, Fossils, and Storms.” The lecture will focus on some deep tunnel cores drilled to a depth of over 800 feet in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In particular, he will talk…
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1.4 Million Yr. California Fossil Find
Via AP Yahoo News: RIVERSIDE, Calif. – A utility company preparing to build a new substation in an arid canyon southeast of Los Angeles has stumbled on a trove of animal fossils dating back 1.4 million years that researchers say will fill in blanks in Southern California’s history. The well-preserved cache contains nearly 1,500 bone…
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Fossils of Saltville Virginia
“…Saltville has been known for its Ice Age fossils since Thomas Jefferson reported large bones from the valley in 1782, and excavations have occurred there on a sporadic basis ever since. ETSU became involved when Dr. Steven Wallace, associate professor of Geosciences, led digs at the site in 2003 and 2004. Schubert took over the…
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Events This Weekend
Friday, Sept. 24: ESCONI Board Meeting, 7:30 pm, College of Dupage, Bldg. K, Rm. 142 (note room change) Friday, Sept. 24: Family Science Night: Paleontology, 6-8 p.m., Elgin Public Museum. Saturday and Sunday, Sept, 25 & 26: Braceville Mazon Creek Fossil Collecting Trip, 8:00 am, meet at BP Amoco in Coal City Saturday, Sept 25,…
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Local events of interest this weekend, 2010
Friday, September 17, 7:00 pm – Elgin Public Museum, Elgin, IL, Lecture – “Archaeology of Disaster.” Fire, flood, famine, war, plague, earthquake . . . All major disasters leave distinctive signatures in the archaeological record. From the New Madrid quakes of 1811 and 1812 that changed the very course of the Mississippi River, to the…
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Many Upcoming Events!
Friday, 9/10, 8:00 p.m., General Meeting, College of Dupage Building K, Room #131, Dale Gnidovec, curator of Ohio State University‘s Orton Geological Museum will speak on the Morrison formation. Saturday, 9/11, 9:00 a.m., Work day at the storage facility in preparation for the ESCONI Flea Market on October 2. Contact John Good at 630-483-2363 to…
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Obituary for Harry Whittington
Via Telegraph: Professor Harry Whittington, who died on June 20 aged 94, was the former Woodwardian Professor of Geology at Cambridge and the world’s leading authority on fossil trilobites; in later life he led painstaking research which revealed a “Cambrian explosion” and raised disturbing questions about the processes of evolution….
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This Weekend
Friday, 6/11 – ESCONI General Meeting. James St. John, from Ohio State University at Newark, will be speaking on “Weird Fossils & Fossil Oddities” at the ESCONI General Meeting at 8:00 p.m. College of Dupage Building K, Room #131. Saturday, 6/12 – Mineralogy & Micromount Study Group Meeting. 7:30 p.m. College of Dupage, Building K,…
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Ediacaran Creature Movement
From Science News: …The newly-discovered fossils, from rocks in Newfoundland in Canada, were analysed by an international team led by Oxford University scientists. They identified over 70 fossilised trails indicating that some ancient creatures moved, in a similar way to modern sea anemones, across the seafloors of the Ediacaran Period…
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Preserving the Link Between Fish & Land Animal
Via Nunatsiaq Online: …A proposed coal exploration project on Ellesmere Island threatens an internationally-important collection of rare fossil sites, a group of fossil scientists said last week. The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology asked its members to lobby the the Nunavut Impact Review Board about a coal exploration project at several sites on Ellesmere Island. A…
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Color of a Dinosaur
Via National Geographic: …In a report released online today by the journal Nature, an international team of paleontologists and experts in scanning electron micrography infer that this dinosaur had reddish orange feathers running along its back and a striped tail….
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South-Central Ontario Fossils
Northumberland News of Canada reports on a new fossil book,”South-Central Ontario Fossils“.
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Breathing Similar to Birds
Via Physorg.com: …University of Utah scientists discovered that air flows in one direction as it loops through the lungs of alligators, just as it does in birds. The study suggests this breathing method may have helped the dinosaurs’ ancestors dominate Earth after the planet’s worst mass extinction 251 million years ago…
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Paleontology Meeting: Sat. Jan. 16th – Shrimp
Paleontology Study Group Meeting, Saturday, Jan 16th, 7:30 p.m. College of Dupage, Building K, Rm 131. Bring your Mazon Creek shrimp specimens to be photographed for possible inclusion in new reference book!
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Top 10 Paleontology Articles Most Viewed
From National Geographic (hat tip KnightScience who has a bunch of top 10 lists): Large, “lost,” or simply unusual, a bevy of prehistoric beasts were brought to life in National Geographic News’s most popular paleontology stories of the year…
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Flying Dinosaur Controversy
From PhysOrg: New research appears to have ended a scientific debate that has vexed palaeontologists for almost 100 years.
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Paleontology Meeting: Sat. 11/21 – Arthropods
Paleontology Meeting, 7:30 pm, College of Dupage, Building K – Rm 131, Devonian Period Paleontology. Bring your Mazon Creek arthropods, excluding shrimp and including insects and millipedes.
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Scientist Zeresenay Alemseged: Someone to Know
Via EthioBlog: Ethiopian scientist Zeresenay (Zeray) Alemseged, who discovered the 3.3 million year old girl fossil called Selam in Ethiopia, is featured on PBS’s “Becoming Human” documentary which is being shown this week. Zeresenay is currently curator and chair of anthropology at the California Academy of Sciences and a world renowned paleontologist….
