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Dino Info History / Science Students can do some great dinosaur research at the University of California Museum of Paleontology at www.ucmp.berkeley.edu.

co-editor Christian Sidor, a UW biology professor and curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, said in a statement.

Lindsay Zanno is the head of paleontology at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences and the director of the Zanno Lab.

«Having seen the «Tufts - Love Rex» during its excavation I can attest to the fact that it is definitely one of the most significant specimens yet found, and because of its size, is sure to yield important information about the growth and possible eating habits of these magnificent animals,» said Jack Horner, former curator of paleontology at the Museum of the Rockies and current Burke Museum research associate, in a statement.

'' (Lythronax's) forward - facing eyes, powerful limbs and large size would have made it an efficient hunter of both duckbilled dinosaurs and horned dinosaurs like Diabloceratops,» added co-author Joseph Sertich, curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.

«Although we tend to think of paleontological discoveries coming from new field work, many of our most important conclusions come from specimens already in museums,» says Dr. Christian Kammerer, Research Curator of Paleontology at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences and author of the new study.

In research published online in a recent issue of PeerJ, an open access journal, Professor Robert Reisz, Distinguished Professor of Paleontology at UTM, explains that the presence of such an extensive field of teeth provides clues to how the intriguing feeding mechanism seen in modern amphibians was also likely used by their ancient ancestors.

«This spectacular new predator, one of the largest and best preserved soft - bodied arthropods from Marble Canyon, joins the ranks of many unusual marine creatures that lived during the Cambrian Explosion, a period of rapid evolutionary change starting about half a billion years ago when most major animal groups first emerged in the fossil record,» said co-author Jean - Bernard Caron, senior curator of invertebrate paleontology at the ROM and an associate professor in the Departments of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Earth Sciences at U of T.

«The CT scans help us figure out how the different species within the T. rex family related to each other and how they evolved,» said Thomas Williamson, Curator of Paleontology at the New Mexico museum.

After Stanford's initial find, Stephen J. Godfrey, curator of paleontology at the Calvert Marine Museum, coordinated the excavation of the slab and produced the mold and cast that formed the basis of the scientific work.

He is a professor and curator of paleontology at the MSU Museum of the Rockies and an author, he was a technical adviser on the three Jurassic Park movies, and he won a MacArthur genius award for his work on dinosaur behavior.

As Mark Norell, curator of vertebrate paleontology at the museum, puts it, dinosaur artwork «is a fantastic leap from what we know.»

«This is evidence of the most northerly record for primitive bears, and provides an idea of what the ancestor of modern bears may have looked like,» says Dr. Xiaoming Wang, lead author of the study and Head of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHMLA).

«Up until now, the evolution of feathers was mainly considered to be an adaptation related to flight or to warm - bloodedness, seasoned with a few speculations about display capabilities» says the article's first author, Marie - Claire Koschowitz of the Steinmann Institute for Geology, Mineralogy and Paleontology at the University of Bonn.

«This new specimen is important because it is so complete,» says Randall Irmis, curator of paleontology at the Utah Museum of Natural History at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, who found the skeleton in 2003 but was not involved in the new study.

Dr. Michael Ryan, curator of vertebrate paleontology at The Cleveland Museum of Natural History, co-authored research describing the new species, which was published May 7, 2013 in the journal Nature Communications.

«The Middle Pleistocene was a long period of about half a million years during which hominin evolution didn't proceed through a slow process of change with just one kind of hominin quietly evolving towards the classic Neandertal,» said lead author Juan - Luis Arsuaga, Professor of Paleontology at the Complutense University of Madrid.

«With the skulls we found,» co-author Ignacio Martínez, Professor of Paleontology at the University of Alcalá, added, «it was possible to characterize the cranial morphology of a human population of the European Middle Pleistocene for the first time.»

Biologist Sonja Wedmann, then at the Institute of Paleontology at the University of Bonn, analyzed the fossil after it was dug up from oil shale deposits in what was once a small lake formed by volcanic activity.

«Even five years ago, it wouldn't have been technically possible to do this kind of reconstruction,» says first author Jens N. Lallensack of the Steinmann Institute for Geology, Mineralogy and Paleontology at the University of Bonn.

«However, our results indicate that warm - bloodedness could have been created 20 to 30 million years earlier,» explains Prof. Martin Sander from the Steinmann Institute for Geology, Mineralogy and Paleontology at the University of Bonn.

Eleven authors contributed to the manuscript that is scheduled to be published in Nature: Dr. Steve Holen, director of research at the Center for American Paleolithic Research; Dr. Tom Deméré, curator of paleontology and director of PaleoServices at the San Diego Natural History Museum; Dr. Daniel Fisher, professor of paleontology and director and curator of the Museum of Paleontology at the University of Michigan; Dr. Richard Fullagar, professorial research fellow at the Centre for Archaeological Science at the University of Wollongong, Australia; Dr. James Paces, research geologist at the U.S. Geological Survey; Kathleen Maule Holen, administrative director at the Center for American Paleolithic Research; Dr. Jared Beeton, professor of physical geography at Adams State University; Dr. Adam Rountrey, collection manager in the Museum of Paleontology at the University of Michigan; George T. Jefferson, district staff paleontologist at

«She really wasn't much of a scientist — which is good,» says Horner, curator of paleontology at the Museum of the Rockies.

It definitively would have stood out from the herd during the Late Cretaceous,» said lead author Dr. Michael Ryan, curator of vertebrate paleontology at The Cleveland Museum of Natural History.

«Fossils have richer stories to tell — about the lub - dub of dinosaur life — than we have been willing to listen to,» says Robert T. Bakker, curator of paleontology at the Houston Museum of Natural Science.

Jack Horner, perhaps the most famous dinosaur expert in the world, is the curator of paleontology at the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana.

Eric Scott, curator of paleontology at the San Bernardino County Museum in Redlands, Calif., suggests it was something else: namely, the immigration of bison from Eurasia.

There was a fellow by the name of Don Baird, who was the curator of paleontology at the museum at Princeton, and he definitely didn't care that I didn't have a degree.

He studied geology and paleontology at the University of Montana, Missoula, but undiagnosed dyslexia made it impossible for him to obtain a degree.

John «Jack» R. Horner is Regents Professor of Paleontology at Montana State University and the curator of paleontology at the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman.

Not exact matches

If you have criticisms of paleontology, you shoudl talk to them, but it is very safe to say you will be laughed at.

The Creationists over at the DI cite him as being the leader of their Paleontology Research program even though, by his own admission, he has no credentials in the field.

In fact, their taxonomic analysis displaces it from its alleged perch on the phylogenetic tree: «The Haarlem specimen is not a member of the Archaeopteryx clade,» says Rauhut, a paleontologist in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at LMU who is also affiliated with the Bavarian State Collections for Paleontology and Geology in Munich.

The team's findings «are on par for what little data we have for tyrannosaurs,» says Richard McCrea, a paleontologist at the Peace Region Paleontology Research Centre in Tumbler Ridge, Canada.

Corwin Sullivan, a paleontologist at Beijing's Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology who helped interpret the remains, thinks Yutyrannus «would have been rather shaggy - looking, a killer fuzz ball with deadly teeth and claws.»

«This causes a shakeup in the fish family tree, which indicates that the ancestor shared by all ray - finned fishes lived tens of millions of years after previously thought, maybe in the aftermath of a mass extinction event around 360 million years ago that decimated many other groups,» said Friedman, an associate curator at the U-M Museum of Paleontology and an associate professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences.

We were surprised that no one had directly addressed the idea that the underlying parts of the brain — the forebrain and midbrain — are correlated or somehow developmentally related to the overlying frontal and parietal bones,» said co-senior author Bhart - Anjan Singh Bhullar, an assistant professor of geology and geophysics at Yale University and assistant curator of vertebrate paleontology and vertebrate zoology at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History.

Elizabeth is a deputy news editor at Science, coordinating coverage of anthropology, archaeology and paleontology.

The new study, a collaborative effort by groups led by Professor Gert Wörheide (Chair of Paleontology and Geobiology at LMU) and Dr. Davide Pisani (Bristol University, UK) reaffirms the traditional view that the sponges were the first phylum to diverge from the common ancestor of metazoans.

But paleontology isn't a purely historical science, or at least it won't be for much longer, because soon we may have the capability of resurrecting extinct life - forms.

One of the most important early Neandertal sites was discovered in modern - day Croatia in 1899, when Dragutin Gorjanovic - Kramberger, Director of the Geology and Paleontology Department of the National Museum and Professor of Paleontology and Geology at Zagreb University, alerted by a local schoolteacher, first visited the Krapina cave and noted cave deposits, including a chipped stone tool, bits of animal bones, and a single human molar.

«From people at UT - D, Big Bend National Park, Bell Helicopter, the Smithsonian Institution, the Vertebrate Paleontology Lab at UT - Austin, the dedicated staff and volunteers at the Perot Museum, and other paleontologists who offered advice and insight about these animals, so many people contributed to getting the science done and the information out there for the world to see.»

Jasinski, who is advised by Peter Dodson, a professor of paleontology in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science and professor of anatomy in the School of Veterinary Medicine, collaborated on the paper with Steven C. Wallace, a professor at East Tennessee State University and curator at the East Tennessee State University National History Museum at the Gray Fossil Site.

With several colleagues at the Chinese Academy of Sciences» Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, we were able to establish that certain key raptor dinosaurs were fully plumaged, with feathers that were entirely modern in structure.

She approached Jack Horner, a renowned dinosaur scientist, and asked if she could audit his vertebrate paleontology course at Montana State University.

Because the other individuals were smaller, and because pieces of some of their vertebrae hadn't fully fused, those creatures are presumed to be juveniles, says Xing Xu, a paleontologist at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing.

The evidence we found at this site indicates that some hominin species was living in North America 115,000 years earlier than previously thought,» said Judy Gradwohl, president and CEO of the San Diego Natural History Museum, whose paleontology team discovered the fossils, managed the excavation, and incorporated the specimens into the Museum's research collection.

Larsson is at the forefront of merging paleontology and molecular biology in an effort to connect major evolutionary changes — the development of new species and new characteristics, new shapes and structures, new kinds of animals — to changes in specific genes and in how those genes are regulated.

«In this respect they are believed to have behaved in a similar way to hyenas today,» said the study's lead author, Steven E. Jasinski, a student in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science in Penn's School of Arts & Sciences and acting curator of paleontology and geology at the State Museum of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg.

But last week, at the annual meeting of the Society for Vertebrate Paleontology in Calgary, Canada, a team of scientists suggested a different killer: harmful algal blooms in the very water that had lured the animals.