Natural Science Forum / Biology / Paleontology / January 2006

It's not mine - I took a photo for a friend.  The fossil was found in
Palos Park, IL, along the Cal Sag channel.   Sorry I never measured it,
but I believe it is about 2.5 inches long, just about as wide.
http://www.ccfp-fishing.com/images/misc/fossil_1r.jpg

Can anyone help me find the 'obscure' paper by JM Clarke that Niles
Eldredge refers to on page 64 of "Time Frames"? A scan of the page is
available here:
http://members.aol.com/jorolat/trilobite.html

Please view pics
http://www.winland.us/dwinland/
This is a stone about 5 lbs in weight and roughly 9 inches long and 5
inches wide.

On early Human Dispersal from Africa
The following points are made by R. Dennell and W. Roebroeks (Nature 2005
438:1099):
1) A key assumption in accounts of early hominin evolution is that the genus

Just out of idle curiosity I set Ed Conrad's purported "Canine Tooth"
which he was selling on ebay on my watch list, just to see if anyone
was foolish enough to bid for it.
Checked again, hmmmm nothing there. Now since most sensible folk just

I'll be starting a semester long graduate research project wherein I
will be looking at forams from off the coast of south africa.  I don't
know all that much about forams and their study, anyone have any good
references for them?  Both texts and articles?

In a discussion about whether Noach & sons may have used pterosaurs as
flying mounts (don't ask), a participitant invoked a certain David
Peters, the possessor of a website on pterosaurs at
www.pterosaurinfo.com with a ghastly colour scheme,  as an authority

Tim K. wrote: