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From:Nature (Vol. 457, Issue 7226) Peer-ReviewedSIR--In response to the lack of a flagship achievement by economics, as noted by Jean-Philippe Bouchaud in his Essay 'Economics needs a scientific revolution' (Nature 455, 1181; 2008), Jesper Stage proposes in...
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From:Transactions of the Kansas Academy of SciencePeer-ReviewedThe occurrence of the first associated tooth set of the Late Cretaceous Lamniform shark, Scapanorhynchus raphiodon (Mitsukurinidae), is described from the Smoky Hill Chalk Member of the Niobrara Chalk in Gove County,...
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From:The Scientist (Vol. 17, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedWe were pleased to read your article "Building an Evo-Bank" (1) in the Feb. 24th issue. Since 1999, we have been proposing the opening of electronic archives for fossil and modern hominoids in professional journals, in...
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From:Atlantic GeologyPeer-ReviewedPalaeophycus bolbitermilus, a new ichnospecies of Palaeophycus Hall, is described from turbiditic strata of the Lower Silurian Upsalquitch Formation of northern New Brunswick, eastern Canada. The ichnospecies is...
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From:Science (Vol. 276, Issue 5316) Peer-ReviewedPaleontologists are outraged by the sale of rare human fossils on an Internet site called Fossilnet. They believe that sales to private collectors are a loss to science and warn that the fossils may not be authentic....
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 7, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Adam M. Yates 1 , 2 , * , Frank H. Neumann 1 , 3 , P. John Hancox 1 Introduction The End-Permian extinction event at the end of the Permian Paleozoic Era is widely acknowledged to be the most severe...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 8, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Sébastien Lavoué 1 , 2 , * , Masaki Miya 3 , Prachya Musikasinthorn 4 , Wei-Jen Chen 1 , Mutsumi Nishida 2 Introduction Species richness of worldwide-distributed groups of marine organisms is not...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 9, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Anthony R. Fiorillo *, Ronald S. Tykoski Introduction The study of tyrannosaurs, the lineage of carnivorous theropod dinosaurs that include Tyrannosaurus rex and its close kin has captivated the...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 8, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Mike Macphail 1,*, Raymond J. Carpenter 2, Ari Iglesias 3,4, Peter Wilf 5 Introduction The Southern Hemisphere monkey-puzzle tree family, Araucariaceae, was long believed to comprise two living genera:...
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From:Nature (Vol. 489, Issue 7414) Peer-ReviewedExamination of a 57-million-year-old nearly complete fossil skeleton (selected bones pictured) has advanced a long debate over the place of the mammal Ernanodon antelios in evolutionary history. The fossil of the...
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From:Science and Children (Vol. 53, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedMany young learners are fascinated with fossils, particularly charismatic forms such as dinosaurs and giant sharks. Fossils provide tangible, objective evidence of life that lived millions of years ago. They also...
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From:The Texas Journal of Science (Vol. 54, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAbstract. -- Two parallel theropod dinosaur trackways are preserved in the Albian Glen Rose Formation of Kinney County in southwest Texas. Although track size and depth indicate that one of the trackways represents a...
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From:Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science (Vol. 108, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedCasts of Waterhouse Hawkins' Crystal Palace fossil restorations were offered for sale by Henry Ward in his 1866 catalogue. Herein Ward's casts of Hawkins' restorations are discussed and comparisons made between these...
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From:Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences (Vol. 44, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: A sand pit at Leamington, Ontario, in southeastern Essex County in the southernmost part of Canada, has yielded many taxa of fossil animals and plants that are dated over 13 000 BP. The fossils are of both...
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From:Journal of Shellfish Research (Vol. 26, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT One hundred one individuals of Protothaca staminea were live-collected from Argyle Lagoon (sand/mud substrate) and Argyle Creek (gravel/sand substrate), San Juan Island, Washington and examined for...
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From:PeerJ (Vol. 2) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Russell J. Garwood (1), Jason Dunlop (2) Introduction Arachnids and their relatives (Chelicerata) form a major branch of the arthropods, with around 112,000 living species (Zhang, 2011). They also have...
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From:Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences (Vol. 65, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe Paardu hardground from the Telychian (Rumba Formation) of western Estonia is sparsely encrusted (0.4% of the studied surface) by possible tabulate corals, sheet-like bryozoans and discoidal echinoderm holdfasts....
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From:Asian Perspectives: The Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific (Vol. 57, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedFour teeth of Peking Man from Zhoukoudian, excavated by Otto Zdansky in 1921 and 1923 and currently housed in the Museum of Evolution at Uppsala University, are among the most treasured finds in palaeoanthropology, not...
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From:Science (Vol. 293, Issue 5539) Peer-ReviewedLittle is known about the cranial anatomy of the taxonomically diverse and geographically widespread titanosaurs, a paucity that has hindered inferences about the genealogical history and evolutionary development of the...
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From:Science (Vol. 295, Issue 5561) Peer-ReviewedThe search for fossils in rocks formed before the Cambrian explosion of life 540 million years ago "has been plagued by misinterpretation and questionable results," leading paleontologist William Schopf of the...