Current Events in Earth Science - Fossil News

Current Events in Earth Science is a Macroevolution.net's free page covering news relating to geology and paleontology with a bearing on biology. This page also provides, from time to time, links to interesting stories on other websites. OTHER NEWS PAGES ON THIS WEBSITE: Animal News |  Environment |  Health |  Molecular Biology Biotechnology |  General Biology |  Astrobiology |  Marine Biology The largest snake on record lived in the earliest known neotropical forest The largest snake thus far known to science, the monstrous Titanoboa, slithered through the oldest known neotropical rainforest. Colombia's Cerrejón coal mine is yielding plant and animal fossils from a time and environment till now unknown. Read on >> Oetzi's mossy eatsies Oetzi the Iceman ate moss. No one has ever found moss in the gut of any other glacier mummy. So this is one Tyrolean iceman who has some explaining to do! Read on >> Dinosaurs may soon show true colors A new study has determined the colors of 40-million-old feathers, opening up the possibility of decoding the pigments of ancient dinosaurs Read on >> Ardipithecus ramidus - New findings for an ancient hominid A package of articles in a recent issue of journal Science reaches some interesting new conclusions about this ancient hominid.   Read on >> New fossils alter ideas of spider ancestry Arachnid fossils unearthed in New York's Gilboa Fossil Forest have led researchers to reevaluate how spiders first evolved the ability to spin webs. Read on >> Male dinosaurs: Super dads? A new study says male dinosaurs were super dads and possibly polygamists. Read on >> Study says pterosaurs went on all fours Paleontologists have assumed that because these pterosaurs flew, they were birdlike in many ways, such as using only two legs to take flight. Now comes first-time evidence that launching some 500 pounds of heft into the skies required pterosaurs to use four limbs: two were ultra-strong wings which, when folded and balanced on a knuckle, served as front "legs" that helped the creature to walk -- and leap. Read on >> Current Events in Earth Science - Macroevolution.net Shiva Impact - The dinosaurs' true demise? What is being called the Shiva Impact, might have created the Shiva Basin off the west coast of India -- perhaps the largest impact crater on earth. A new study suggests this impact -- and not the better known Yucatan impact, which occurred at about the same time -- was responsible for killing off the dinosaurs. Read on >> ARTICLES ABOUT HOMINIDS: Homo habilis >> Homo rudolfensis >> Homo erectus >> Homo georgicus >> Homo ergaster >> Homo cepranensis >> Homo heidelbergensis >> Homo neanderthalensis >>     Homo rhodesiensis >> Homo floresiensis >> Kenyanthropus platyops >> Orrorin tugenensis >> Ardipithecus ramidus >> Sahelanthropus tchadensis >> Australopithecus afarensis >> Australopithecus africanus >> Australopithecus anamensis >> Australopithecus bahrelghazali >> Australopithecus garhi >> Paranthropus boisei >> Paranthropus robustus >> Paranthropus aethiopicus >> FEATURED PALEONTOLOGISTS: Mary Anning (1799-1847). British paleontologist. By some accounts the greatest fossil hunter of the early 19th century. Read more >> Raymond Dart (1893-1988). Pioneering paleoanthropologist. Discoverer of the Taung Child, he was the first scientist to provide hard evidence that humans originally evolved in Africa. Read more >> Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829). One of the founders of invertebrate paleontology. Long before Darwin, Lamarck proposed that human beings had evolved from apes. Read more >> Louis Leakey (1903-1972) and Mary Leakey (1913-1996). The paleoanthropologist team that convinced the world that humans first evolved in Africa. Read more >> Charles Lyell (1797-1875). Scottish geologist and paleontologist. Gave the Pliocene Epoch its name. A friend and supporter of Charles Darwin, Lyell, established uniformitarianism as a scientific principle. Read more >> Current Events in Earth Science - Macroevolution.net