s Burgess Shale.]]>The article discusses British Columbia's Burgess Shale as a fossil locality. Travel tips for paleontology-interested tourists planning to visit Burgess Shale are presented. The Burgess Shale's scenery is also described. The article discusses the discovery of the Burgess Shale ...
Dyson believes global warming is caused by increased carbon dioxide through burning fossil fuels, but is skeptical about the simulation models used to predict climate change, arguing that political efforts to reduce causes of climate change distract from other global problems that should take priority....
This discovery proved that there were two kinds of australopithecines — one very robust and one more slender — roaming Africa 2.5 million to 1 million years ago. When this new fossil was reported at a conference, Dart reportedly joked, "What would have happened if Mrs. Ples had ...
Larsen, the president of the Black Hills Institute, a fossil dealer in Hill City, South Dakota. The six-member team then began the painstaking process of extracting all the bones from the site. Only when they finished 17 days later did they realize the significance of their discovery: They ...
”“Put into English, what Sunstein is proposing is government infiltration of groups opposing prevailing policy,” he wrote on the “alternative progressive” Web site the Rag Blog. Three days later, the journalist Daniel Tencer (Twitter bio: “Lover of great narratives in all their forms”) ...
A detailed survey of the discovery areas provides maps for the location of fossil, sedimentary and modern landscape features that tell portions of the geological history of this site. Interpretive text explaining specific features within each discovery area is linked to exhibits within the farmhouse/...
Self-taught paleontologist Mary Anning was a British fossil hunter and collector. At age 12 she had found, with her brother, a complete ichthyosaur skeleton, and later made other major discoveries. Louis Agassiz named two fossils for her. Because she was a woman, the Geological Society of Lond...
limiting the amount of photosynthetic algae, thereby reducing the number of plankton and fish in the food chain. Fossil evidence indicates plesiosaurs were sight hunters; it is unlikely that the loch's peat-stained water would allow such animals to hunt the limited food supply at sufficient level...
Children are encouraged to touch and play here, with popular exhibits like the live reptile meeting and dinosaur fossil digging available year-round. Book your little scientist for summer camp while you explore the rest of Panama City. Location: 308 Airport Rd, Panama City, FL 32405, USA Open...
Focusing on the critical areas of energy and information, their new company, reconstituted in 1964 as Energy Conversion Devices (ECD), went on to become a forefront invention and development laboratory whose products have built new industries, many of them aimed at making fossil fuel obsolete. ...