Evolution Lecture by: Charles R. Marshall Professor of Geology and Biology Curator, Invertebrate Paleontology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University
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Egypt may not be the first place you’d look for whales, but once upon a time the Wadi Hitan desert was underwater and teeming with the sea giants. Geologist Philip D. Gingerich announced his team had excavated the first known nearly complete skeleton of a Basilosaurus isis. The 50-foot-long (18-meter-long), 40-million-year-old fossil will now be [...]
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Recently analyzed fossil was not human ancestor as claimed, anthropologists say
( University of Texas at Austin ) A fossil that was celebrated last year as a possible “missing link” between humans and early primates is actually a forebear of modern-day lemurs and lorises, according to two papers by scientists at the University of Texas at [...]
In this part you are taught the basics of digging fossils. All you have to do is first use the sonar and then use your pickaxe to dig the fossil up.
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Elementary school or kindergarten science project. How to make a “dinosaur fossil” out of a dirt mould and water putty. Done to the Indiana Jones adventure theme.
Fossil shows snake snacked on baby dinos: study
Scientists have found fossil evidence that at least one species of baby dinosaur emerged from its egg, only to meet the open jaws of a huge primitive snake looking for a quick and easy snack.
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Fossil of dinosaur-eating snake discovered in India
A reconstruction of the moment the prehistoric snake Sanajeh indicus attacks a hatchling dinosaur. Photo: Tyler Keillor, Ximena Erickson and Bonnie Miljour/PA
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Missing Link Discussion