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Last Updated May 16, 2001

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General

• Earth: Asia dried Africa (Nature)(5/14/01)

• New Technique Illuminates Events Obscured in the Geologic Record (5/11/01)

• Extinct Bird in 'Ground Breaker' (BBC)(2/7/01)

• Disasters Reveal Social Secrets of the Dead (Nature) (1/22/01)

• Ancient Bone Sales Thrive in Capitalist Era (LA Times)(1/22/01)

• Fossils Nag at Carbon's Climate Role(BBC On Line)(12/7/00)

• Fossil Exposed as Fake(BBC On Line)(12/7/00)

• Earth's Continental Land Masses Created in Short, Fast Bursts(12/6/00)

• Winning Paleontology Award Without Collecting A Fossil (11/13/00)

• Relics : Hardcore Hibernation (Nature)(10/18/00)

• Australia Finds its Lost Animals (BBC OnLine)(9/6/00)

• Fossil Auction Stirs Natural History Flap (CNN)(8/28/00)

• Ice Age Star Map Discovered (BBC OnLine)(8/9/00

• Kennewick Ruling (ABC News) (8/9/00)

• Amateur Fossil Hunters Seek Thrills (8/6/00)

• Ancient Oil Points to 'Cradle of Life' (BBC On Line)(8/4/00)

• Chemical Signatures in Rocks Provide Clues to Origin and Evolution of Oxygen and Terrestrial Life on Earth (8/4/00)

• Flying Fossil Find Up for Auction- Impending Sale of  Scientific Treasure in S.F. Angers Paleontologists (San Francisco Chronicle) (7/17/00)

• 'Fossil Air' ProvidesClimate Clues (BBC OnLine) (7/12/00)

• Equatorial Water May Have Provided Means of Survival for Early Life (5/25/00)

• El Niņo-like Climate Patterns Occurred in New England During the
  Ice Age (5/12/00)

• Bones to Pick-  Researchers say Booming Commercial Market in Fossils is
  Hampering Academic Study of Paleontology (San Francisco Chronicle) (4/10/00)

• New Calculations Show Life's Origins Possible in Volcanic Gases (3/27/00)

• Scientists Fill Antarctic Plate Gap Linking Pacific to the Rest of the World (3/14/00)

• Lunar Cratering Shows Surprising Increase During Cambrian Explosion of Life on Earth (3/10/00)

• Bidding On Bones- Internet Auctions are Putting Fossils out of Paleontologists' Reach (Scientific American) (3/7/00)

• Resurrecting Life on Mars? (Nature) (3/6/00)

• Paleoclimatologist Sees Another Ice Age Coming (2/16/00)

• Fossils Being Plundered by Thieves (CNN) (2/8/00)

• Life on Land Tied to Gene Expansion (2/3/00)

• Texas A&M Oceanographer Challenges Plate Tectonics As Reason For Poles'
  Shift (1/25/00)

• The Big Shift- Long Ago, Earth Wobbled Like a Ball (ABC News) (1/20/00)

• Bronze Mammoth Stuck Outside New Museum (ABC News) (1/7/00)

• Tagging Fossils to Foil the Thieves (Times-UK) (11/24/99)

• Park Visitors Swiping Chunks of Petrified Forest (ABC News) (11/22/99)

• The Fossil-Rich State- Rare Fossils Abound in South Carolina (ABC News)(11/19/99)

• Evidence for Historic Global Warming (11/18/99)

• Dating Timeless Obsidian- New Technique May Pinpoint Dates, Even Climate (ABC News) (11/18/99)

• Darwin Species To Go On Display (BBC OnLine) (11/16/99)

• Lasers Clean Fossils in No Time (New Scientist) (11/3/99)

• The History of Rock (BBC OnLine) (11/3/99)

• Oxygen May Be Cause of First Snowball Earth (10/27/99)

• Ancient Iron-Rich Rocks Point to Early Occurrence of Land-Based Life (10/26/99)

• Scientists Harden Position on Selling Fossils (Chicago Tribune) (10/24/99)

• Life Secrets on Old Rocks (ABC News) (9/16/99)

• Piecing Together North America- What Created the Rocky Mountains? (ABC News) (8/12/99)

• New UNC-CH Study Explains Variations in Onset of Ice Ages (7/22/99)

• Catastrophic Draining of Huge Lakes Tied to Ancient Global Cooling Event (7/21/99)

• University of Hawai'i Researcher Finds a New Form of Pure Carbon in a Mexican Meteorite (7/14/99)

• 'Lost continent' discovered (includes audio) (BBC On-Line) (5/27/99)

• Seismic Profiling Reveals Ancient River Valley and Prehistoric Faulting Beneath Portland, Ore.(5/1/99)

• Plate Tectonics May Have Once Operated On Mars (4/29/99)

• Geologists Find Motion Across Disappearing Plate Boundary (3/9/99)

• Large Gene Study Questions Cambrian Explosion (1/19/99)

• Beyond Jurassic Park: Real Science with Ancient DNA (11/5/98)
  

 

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