Natural Science Forum / Biology / Paleontology / March 2005

Can someone help identify this fossil? To my untrained eye, it looks
like it might be a trilobite. Of course, I could be completely wrong.
http://www.peabody304.com/fossil/
Thanks

I'm new to postings and newsgroups.
Please see my album here. I'll add more later.
Randy Steiner
http://photos.yahoo.com/steinerrandy

I found a piece of petrified wood with what appears to me to be a large
tooth imbedded in the side of it.  I was wondering if anyone could help me
identify what this is.  You can see the photos of the fossil at the
following location:

I am not an expert; however I was reading Tim Flannery's book
Country, the book is about the evolution of kangaroos.

Australia (or generally Gowanda) around 110 million years ago. He cited

I've finally uploaded my second main page--"Fossils At Red Rock Canyon
State Park, California" over at
http://members.aol.com/Waucoba7/redrock/redrockfossils.html .I'm trying
to consolidate my various fossils-related pages so that they can be

http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/Phys-fossil-biodiversity.html
BERKELEY, CA - A detailed and extensive new analysis of the fossil records of
marine animals over the past 542 million years has yielded a stunning surprise.
Biodiversity appears to rise and fall in ...

I just finished reading this paper, thought it was a good read, and thought I'd
share it with others in the group.  It is a little dated, but has some good
points.  Let me know what you think:
http://www.natur.cuni.cz/~vpetr/Develop.htm

Neanderthals Sang at High Pitch?
By Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News
March 14, 2005 - Neanderthals possessed strong, yet high-pitched, voices that the stocky hominins used for both singing and speaking, according to recent British news reports.
The theory suggests that Neanderthals, ...

'New World' link to Arctic find
Humans occupied the freezing lands high above the Arctic Circle during
the last Ice Age, say Russian archaeologists.
New Stone Age artefacts from Yana in northern Siberia have pushed back

The first one :
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/manchester/4268363.stm
Megarachne, previously identified as the largest ever spider, was not a
spider but a sea scorpion. The paper will be published in Biology Letters

Kerguelen Island in the Southern Indian was most likely once an ancient
micro-continent with a possible to Antarctica. What has the sort of
flora and fauna fossils that been found there?

I vaguely recall some documentary where it was suggested Megalodon
might have survived until the beginning of mankind's seafaring. How can
we be sure some large sea-dwelling dinosaurs did not survive much
longer than expected and might account for some of the old sea monster

Prehistoric Knives Suggest Humans Competed
By Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News
Feb. 1, 2005 - A recent excavation of 400,000-year-old stone tools in
Britain suggests that two groups of early humans could have competed with

I was looking at the skeleton of Gallus gallus (Chicken.  Yum.) today
and I took special note of the pelvis and it's fusion.  The ilium and
ischium seemed to be fused, as would be expected.  But here is the
deal.  The pubis was almost non-existant and was fused back into the