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Geotimes January 2005 Megan Sever |
Revealing a Rune Stone's Secrets Geologists are trying to determine whether a stone, found in 1898 and covered with ancient Swedish runes telling a tale of a massacre of a band of Scandinavian explorers in Minnesota in 1362, is authentic. |
Geotimes January 2005 Naomi Lubick |
Horses' Mouths Date Sierra Nevada Uplift Estimates on when the Sierra Nevada began its major uplift vary widely. In an effort to pinpoint the escalation, some geoscientists are going straight to the horse's mouth, literally, using horse teeth to date the mountains' uplift. |
Geotimes December 2004 Naomi Lubick |
New Dates for Old Deer Bones Improved radiocarbon dating has shown that several creatures previously thought to have died out around 10,000 to 11,000 years ago actually were around much longer. |
Geotimes December 2004 Naomi Lubick |
Pyrite Fossil Preservation In the Yunnan Province of China, paleobiologists have found evidence for exactly how certain fossils were preserved in the Early Cambrian, around 525 million years ago. |
Geotimes November 2004 Megan Sever |
Monitoring Aboriginal Rock Art Over the past 30 years, this remote region in Australia, once home only to Aboriginal tribes and wallabies, has become increasingly industrialized, leading to worries about possible acceleration of weathering and deterioration of the rock art. |
Geotimes November 2004 Laura Stafford |
Parenting Psittacosaurus An adult Psittacosaurus and 34 associated juveniles found in the Yixian Formation of Liaoning, China, may be evidence of parental care by dinosaurs. |
Outside October 2004 Bruce Barcott |
The Killing Bones When cops learned that a notorious Oregon antiquities collector had graduated from grave robbing to ordering up a contract murder, their macabre sting operation exposed the dark side of digging up the past. |
Geotimes October 2004 Laura Stafford |
T. Rex Hits Puberty New research based on growth ring counts from the bones of Tyrannosaurus rex shows that the dinosaur put on the bulk of its mass during its teenage years and then died shortly after its growth spurt. |
Geotimes September 2004 Megan Sever |
A Mistaken Link in Human History Reevaluating old dates of sites is quite valuable and is an exciting trend in paleoanthropology right now. |
Geotimes September 2004 Megan Sever |
Ediacaran Fossil up Close Paleontologists have recently uncovered a goldmine of exceptionally well-preserved fossils in Newfoundland, Canada. |
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