Google Doodle – Nicolas Steno
Google Doodle – Internet search giant Google posted the year’s first Doodle by marking the 374th birth anniversary of the world famous Danish geologist, Nicolas Steno, known as the father of Geology.
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Louisiana’s high school biology textbooks have survived the latest creationist-flavored attempt at distorting education about evolution.
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Pesce fossile a Latronico (PZ)
Su una grossa lastra di pietra, sopra la contrada Iannazzo e sotto la cava di pietra, a 980 m. di quota, è possibile vedere il fossile di un pesce, lungo dal rostro alle pinne caudali circa 235 cm., alto dalla pinna dorsale a quella ventrale circa 95 cm. Il rostro misura circa 30 cm. Questo fossile segnalato per la prima volta da Ortolani nel 1982 (comunicazione verbale “pesce fossile”) e successivamente da Taddei e Siano (1992: cfr xifide), risale a circa 30 milioni di anni fa.
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Carcharocles megalodon – Fossil Sharks in Panama for Kids
The web site has been made for the boys and girls interested in fossil sharks. Carcharocles megalodon is the largest shark to have ever lived and is among the largest known shes. Studies estimated that an adult could reach more than 15 m in total length. This extinct lamniform giant ranges from the Miocene to the end of the Pleistocene. A single tooth can reach 168 mm in crown height.
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Hunting Fossils with Ground Penetrating Radar
An Archeologist from the Bureau of Land Management calibrates a ground penetrating radar unit by looking for fossils at the Fairmead Landfill in Madera County, CA. Fossils excavated from Fairmead will be displayed at the Fossil Discovery Center of Madera County starting in April 2010.
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Giants of the Mesozoic
Fernbank Museum – A prehistoric battle of gigantic proportions unfolds in the permanent exhibition Giants of the Mesozoic, filling the Museum’s Great Hall. This exhibition recreates life in the badlands of Patagonia, Argentina, where the largest dinosaurs in the world were unearthed.
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