Archaeology & Paleontology

Magazine articles on archaeology, paleontology, artifacts, prehistoric origins.

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Geotimes January 2006 Naomi Lubick	Godzilla Had Flippers The blunt-nosed head of a large crocodile-like dinosaur nicknamed Godzilla has given paleontologists a peek at what was probably a ferocious seafaring predator that lived about 140 million years ago.
Geotimes January 2006 Naomi Lubick	Planet Warms, Plants Move in Interlopers from southern and eastern North America and from Europe made their way to Wyoming when global temperatures shot up by 5 to 10 degrees Celsius around 55.8 million years ago.
Geotimes January 2006 Megan Sever	Old "Footprints" Stomped Out? A dating debate over prints found in the Valsequillo Basin in southern Mexico leaves open one of the biggest questions in American archaeology -- when people first colonized the Americas.
Geotimes January 2006 Philip J. Curie	Fine-Feathered Adventures in China Unearthing the Dragon: The Great Feathered Dinosaur Discovery by Mark Norell is as fine a dinosaur book as it is good travel literature.
Geotimes December 2005 Douglas H. Erwin	Out of the Past and Into the Future Some of the greatest recent triumphs of paleontology have come from intensive and rewarding collaborations among paleontologists, stratigraphers, geochemists and geochronologists.
Geotimes December 2005	Highlights 2005 -- Paleontology The "Great Dying" debate... Tracking human migration... More "hobbits" in Indonesia... T. rex bones break ground... An evolving debate...
Geotimes December 2005 Kathryn Hansen	Mammal Growth Spurt About 50 million years ago, mammals started to breathe easier -- and also to grow more easily, paleontologists say.
Geotimes December 2005 Megan Sever	Correcting the Fossil Record Recently, paleontologists have been working on ways to fill in gaps in life's diversity record, and some researchers are finding that climate change -- including greenhouse gas warming -- may play a pivotal role in preserving fossil assemblages.
Geotimes December 2005 Naomi Lubick	Slushball Life Hundreds of millions of years ago, a carapace of ice may have periodically covered the entire planet. New research, however, indicates that microbes seem to have thrived in certain places that they should not have during that time, leading scientists to conclude that the snowball was more slushy than frozen solid.
Geotimes November 2005 Megan Sever	Neanderthal Neighbors New research on Neanderthal and human artifacts excavated from a French cave is indicating that the two groups lived here in successive generations, supporting the idea that Neanderthals and humans coexisted
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