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Dinosaurs of the Month

February 20, 2002

The tools of paleontologists continue to turn up interesting things. Here are some of the latest dinosaur discoveries reported this month: Mighty mouth: An African theropod with massive, shark-like teeth was found in the African Sahara, reported National Geographic News and PhysOrg. It was named Eocarcharia dinops, or “fierce-eyed dawn shark.” Another similar individual, presumed […]

Dumb Ideas

Monkey See, Monkey No Comprendo

January 20, 2002

In 19th century mythology, a million monkeys might type the works of Shakespeare by chance, given millions of years. But monkeys would make lousy computer programmers, because they cannot understand the “if-then” construction. Comparison studies on humans and monkeys showed that while the monkeys could be trained to recognize when one word is followed by […]

Birds

Daffy Duck Found in Dino Park

January 20, 2002

A fossil duck from the Cretaceous has been discovered, indicating that the branch of birds including waterfowl already coexisted with the dinosaurs. A press release from NC State explains the significance of the paper published in Nature1 this week. Dr. Julia Clarke and colleagues say this means that “at least duck, chicken and ratite bird […]

Fossils

Fish Gill Evolves toward Tetrapod Ear?

January 20, 2002

“This is another nail in the coffin of the creationist view, in my opinion,” said the curator of Chicago’s Field Museum about a paper published in Nature,1 reported the Washington Post yesterday (see MSNBC News). Brazeau and Ahlberg of Uppsala University in Sweden examined the skull of Panderichthys, a Devonian lobe-finned fish, and found what […]

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