Natural Science Forum / Biology / Paleontology / February 2008

In honor of Columbus Day this past Monday, Frank opens the show with
his now-famous "Hail Columbus!" speech. Frank then goes on to explain
who were really the first humans to walk on the American continents:
The Solutreans, a Caucasian race of people who traveled from Europe

A journal editor rejected my article because it does not show
branching blood vessels, although it does show many straight blood
vessel remains SEM at 4,000X to 32,000X.
I cannot believe myself that there is such an editor with a

The remains of the bone cells in a Carboniferous human skull cap
fossil were newly identified in a Haversian system (osteon). The bone
cells were so well-preserved that even their dendrites were clearly
seen in the canaliculi.

I'm wondering if anyone on this newsgroup can help me to identify the
below fossil, which I found on the surface in south Louisiana:
http://www.fotothing.com/photos/fc6/fc6f4df57c46e3a6b7950f8d5e582172.jpg?ts=1201
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The reverse side is shown here:

Using DNA, Scientists Hunt For The Roots Of The Modern Potato
ScienceDaily (Feb. 4, 2008) - More than 99 percent of all modern potato varieties planted today are the direct descendants of varieties that once grew in the lowlands of south-central Chile. How Chilean germplasm came ...

The following photos show a dinosaur mummy named Leonardo. Half-length
of its left
ribs are gone, obviously cut by humans in the Cretaceous age.
Numerous people have seen/studied the dinosaur mummy, including a

Some people say there is no bone in the "Carboniferous human skull cap
fossil" of Mr. Ed Conrad. Actually, the structure of bone is
everywhere in Thin Section 1 of the fossil,
shown in the following pictures: