Natural Science Forum / Biology / Paleontology / January 2008

China finds 100,000-year-old human skull: report
An almost complete human skull dating back 80,000 to 100,000 years has been unearthed in central China, state media reported Wednesday.
The skull, consisting of 16 pieces, was dug up last month after two years of excavation at a site ...

I read this book this morning.  Written for a general audience,
without footnotes (though with a good bibliography), Your Inner Fish
is both enjoyable and educational.  I learned much and enjoyed his use
of imaginative examples.  I wanted more on Shubin's epic fossil find,

Crater Creep
A tall pile of tar will slowly flow downhill, ultimately spreading
into a nearly horizontal sheet of tar. Most material, under pressure,
"creeps" in this way, although rocks deform very, very slowly.

An unusual dinosaur has been shown to have a skull that functioned
like a fish-eating crocodile, despite looking like a dinosaur. It also
possessed two huge hand claws, perhaps used as grappling hooks to lift
fish from the water

The following is a picture of Mars. At the lower center ( and the
bottom) of the photo, there seems to be over five Haversian systems.
Can you see them? Bones on Mars?
http://mummy-dinosaur-carved-by-men.googlegroups.com/web/Ha%20on%20Mars ...