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News From Friday, January 29, 2010
9:27:06 PM Hemet gives museum less, but still gives some
The Valley Chronicle - Hemet and San Jacinto,California,USA

The City Council voted in late 2006 to give the former Western Center for Archaeology and Paleontology $200000 a year for five years to a maximum of $1 ... [more]

6:32:15 PM The bad-ass-dinosaur name game
True/Slant

This has led to some funky names in the past couple decades: A married couple of paleontologists in Australia named a new herbivore species Leaellynosauara ... [more]

11:58:30 AM Experts unveil Chinese dinosaur, oldest known ancestor of birds
The Malaysian Insider

... hands are all bird like,” said Professor Xu Xing at the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology & Paleoanthropology. ... [more]

11:48:46 AM Strange pilgrimages in San Juan
Toronto Star - Toronto,Ontario,Canada

Paleontologists discovered a wealth of fossils from the Triassic period in the 600-square- kilometre region. Mendoza, Argentina–In search of some of the ... [more]

9:38:12 AM Dinosaurs, in Living Color
US News - USA

Richard O. Prum, a paleontologist at Yale University, agrees with Benton: “The presence of melanin confirms that these filaments are integumentary [or ... [more]

9:17:47 AM CORRECTED: Experts Unveil Dino, Oldest Known Ancestor of Birds
ABC News - United States

.... hands are all bird like," said Professor Xu Xing at the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology & Paleonanthropology. ... [more]

7:55:54 AM Check out predictions for winners of Sunday's Grammy Awards
GoErie.com - Erie,PA,USA

It's not another exercise in paleontology; there are no dinosaurs or fossils in sight. Instead, Grammy splashed its most prestigious nominations on ... [more]

6:00:00 AM New species is older relative of T. rex
Standard-Speaker - Hazleton,PA,USA

.... paleontologists just announced the findings as a new genus and species, which they detail in the January issue of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. [more]

12:51:22 AM New findings: dinosaurs were birds of a colored feather
Christian Science Monitor - USA

The discovery of coloring agents in dinosaur feathers is also astonishing, paleontologists say. A team led by Chinese paleontologist Fucheng Zhang analyzed ... [more]



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