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11 Citation Nothing witty, snarky or stupid to say here. Just interesting. We know the fossil record underestimates diversity at least a little, and we know that forested environments in Africa tend to be underrepresented. Given this, the diversity of Miocene apes may have been rather impressive, because there is a fairly high diversity in what we can assume is a biased record. Greg Laden?s Blog : How diverse were early hominoids?, technorati.com
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1 Citation Paleontologists working in Peru have found a fossil from a bird that lived 10 million years ago, scientists said on Friday after returning from the dig site on the country's desert coast. The species of bird had a wing span of 19.7 feet and fed mostly on fish from the Pacific Ocean. It first appeared 50 million years ago and was extinct about 2.5 million years ago because of climate change, paleontologist Mario Urbina of Peru's Natural History Museum said. Scientists discovered a rare fossil o, technorati.com
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Amazonian Amphibian Diversity Traced to Andes 1 Citation Colorful poison frogs in the Amazon owe their great diversity to ancestors that leapt into the region from the Andes Mountains several times during the last 10 million years, a new study from The University of Texas at Austin suggests. This is the first study to show that the Andes have been a major source of diversity for the Amazon basin, one of the largest reservoirs of biological diversity on Earth. The finding runs counter to the idea that Amazonian diversity is the result of evolution onl, technorati.com
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1 Citation I don?t know why I do it to myself. Perhaps I?m a glutton for punishment and frustration. Every so often, I?ll feel the need to go to one of those Intelligent Design/Creationism blogs and get myself all angry and riled up. This morning I went over to Evolution News and Views and saw that Casey Luskin has been to the Pacific Science Center?s Lucy exhibit, and he?s soooooo not impressed. That?s okay though, because I?m not impressed with his critique. Luskin says, The first thing my friend, technorati.com
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1 Citation Mega Structures Mapped Out in Ukrainian Black Sea - the Next Elephant to be Discovered in Ukraine -the End of Ukrainian Dependancy of Foreign Gas? Business Posted by Stig Kristoffersen Black Sea has two extensional basins of different ages, the West and East Black Sea basins, separated by the Mid-Black Sea Rise which is called Andrusov Ridge in the Ukrainian sector. These two sub-basins subsided simultaneously during the last 30 Ma. A regional study of the eastern part of the Ukrainian, technorati.com
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1 Citation Ahead of the curve Metal for the avant-garde Useless tinpot drums Miocene at it live Micoene were one of those bands that we didn?t appreciate when we had them, and now they?re shockingly overdue some kind of retrospective praise. Pre-dating the current resurgence in intelligent UK metal such as The Arusha Accord (there?s more to UK metal in 2008 that Bullet For My Valentine, thank fuck?), Miocene were one of a clutch of British metal bands making music outside of trends around the t, technorati.com
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The Northern Mountain Of India 1 Citation Pre-cambrian metamorphic rocks form the bulk of the Himalaya. These rocks represents the frontal part of the Godwana which pushed northwards, uplifting the Himalyas as it pressed against the Asian land masses. It is only in the Soiti basin and in a few other localities that large outcrops of marine sediments from Palaezoic and Mesozoic times can be seen. Plutonic rocks, such as granites and granodisrites of Pre-miocene age cover extensive area in the northern part of Jammu and Kashmir. Many of, technorati.com
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Saving the Earth? ? by Alan Caruba 1 Citation Saving the Earth? By Alan Caruba ********************* Every time I hear someone say something about ?saving the Earth? I want to say, ?Are you out of your mind?? The Earth is some 4.5 billion?that?s billion with a b?years old. How did it ever manage to exist without us? How did it survive ice ages, meteor impacts, and all the other stuff that went on before homo sapiens decided to climb down out of the trees and walk upright? If human beings are responsible for ?global warming? how did the E, technorati.com
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Offshore Black Sea - a New World Class Frontier Just Opened for Business 1 Citation AAPG & AAPG European Region Energy Conference and Exhibition (November 18-21, 2007) Technical Program contained a session called; International Hot Spots - The Black Sea I have compiled abstracts from these sessions from the AAPG conference in Athens 2007. Especially regions like Bulgaria, Ukraine, Russia and Georgia were covered during the sessions. Some examples from offshore , technorati.com
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Browsing Horse Found in Panama Canal Zone 1 Citation Rushing to salvage fossils from the Panama Canal earthworks, Aldo Rincon, paleontology intern at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, unearthed a set of fossil teeth. Bruce J. MacFadden, curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida in Gainesville, describes the fossil as Anchitherium clarencei , a three-toed browsing horse, in the May 2009 issue of the Journal of Paleontology. By far the most complete fossil of a horse collected at, technorati.com
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