Natural Science Forum / Biology / Paleontology / November 2008

In a scifi novel I read recently, it described an apex predator that
was a "Pantovore"; is this anything similar to an omnivore is it
something else? Does any one here know what a "Pantovore" is?

Another human brain fossil
The following shows a complete human brain fossil found at
Winchester, Tennessee. It has been  examined by many doctors and
anatomists.

                         last weekend I watched a television program
on my local PBS station of Georgia Public Television about the Permian
extinction and early Dinosaurs and the extreme lack of evidence about
dinosaurs of this geological period.

2,000-year-old gold earring found in Jerusalem
(AP) -- The Israel Antiquities Authority says archeologists have discovered a 2,000-year-old gold earring beneath a parking lot next to the walls of Jerusalem's old city.
The authority says the earring is inlaid with pearls and ...

Ancient iceman has no modern kin
Posted by Jennifer Evans
[Entry posted at 30th October 2008 05:01 PM GMT]
     The 5,000-year-old mummy Öetzi, found in a glacier in the European alps 17 years ago and believed to be an ancestor of modern Europeans, actually belonged to a different ...