News for the Boy

1) A hand print fossil reveals that some dinosaurs' arms were likely positioned upward, not downward as depicted in the Jurassic Park movies.

2) Fossil hunters in Colombia find a 43-foot long snake!

3) A paleontologist in England discovers 48 new species.

News for the Boy - ISS

The Daily Mail has some pics of astronauts working to repair the International Space Station.

News for the Boy - Major Dino Find

"SALT LAKE CITY - A newly discovered batch of well-preserved dinosaur bones, petrified trees and even freshwater clams in southeastern Utah could provide new clues about life in the region some 150 million years ago.

The Bureau of Land Management announced the find Monday, calling the quarry near Hanksville "a major dinosaur fossil discovery."

An excavation revealed at least four sauropods, which are long-necked, long-tailed plant-eating dinosaurs, and two carnivorous ones, according to the bureau. It may have also uncovered an herbivorous stegosaurus."

Link to rest of story.

News for the Boy

Last week I read an article to my 4 1/2 year old son about the effect of the China earthquake on a panda conservation facility. Apparently they've since airlifted several pandas to Beijing...
Saw this photo in Yahoo!News earlier:

News for the Boy 3

We recently watched a DVD lecture on dinosaurs, can't remember who the paleontologist was who delivered the lecture but he was very entertaining. This guy argued that, contrary to popular belief, the dome-headed pachycephalosaurs (GIS) didn't butt heads because many had ridges and spikes around their skulls and they would run the risk of having their eyes poked out.

This new article argues that perhaps teenage pachycephalosaurs butted heads.

News for the Boy 2

"A rare wild jaguar seen and photographed in the United States by hunter Warner Glenn is bayed by hounds during a hunting trip at an unknown location in southwestern New Mexico, February 20, 2006. Glenn and other members of his hunting party caught the hounds and led them away after they cornered the jaguar. The male jaguar, which weighed around 200 pounds, left the site at a slow trot unharmed. Jaguars are extremely rare in the United States, and Glenn is believed to be the only person to have encountered and photographed one in the wild. Photograph taken February 20, 2006. (Warner Glenn/Handout/Reuters)"

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News for the Boy

An extremely rare mummified Edmontosaurus was discovered in North Dakota!