A couple months ago, I reported about Leonardo, the most amazingly preserved fossil. Leonardo mummified before fossilizing, making him an unbelievably preserved specimen, complete with tissue that normally does not fossilize, like his beak, his toenails, skin and even the contents of his stomach!
It’s been a good month for spiders trapped in amber… well, as much anyone can say you’re having a good month when you’ve been trapped in amber 100+ million years…
Odd-shaped mounds of dirt in Australia turn out to be fossils of the oldest life on Earth, created by billions of microbes more than 3 billion years ago, scientists say in a new report.
As Wednesday morning dawned, northern Norway was hit with an impact comparable to the atomic bomb used on Hiroshima.
=> news @ nature.com – Slouching out of Gondwana – The ancestor of today’s crocodiles was probably Australian.
BBC News => Early web-spinner found in amberTrue orb weaving spiders found trapped in amber from 121-115 million years ago are the oldest of their type yet found.Now, if only the can find some good, dinosaur blood-engorged mosquitoes so they can create Jurassic Park.
I hate eating tomatoes.
New Scientist Space =>Mysterious glowing clouds targeted by NASAGlowing, silvery blue clouds that have been spreading around the world and brightening mysteriously in recent years will soon be studied in unprecedented detail by a NASA spacecraft.The Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) mission will be the first satellite dedicated to studying this enigmatic phenomenon.
DenverPost.com => Stegosaur tracks a colossal findNew Stegosaur footprints found near Denver, Co.The state’s first footprints of a stegosaur – Colorado’s official fossil – have been discovered near this foothills town 15 miles west of Denver.Two new dinosaur track sites found by staff and volunteers of the Morrison Natural History Museum also include footprints made by two or three not-yet-identified and potentially new dinosaurs.States have official dinosaurs? I want an official dinosaur.
FOXNews.com => Fossilized Claw May Reinforce Bird-Dinosaur Evolutionary LinkOne of the (justified?)