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...Harvard paleontologist has discovered a fossil that represents evidence for the evolutionary transition of fish from water to land—a find some experts are calling an evolutionary missing link...
...like 2 million years ago. Their detailed argument for this notion has yet to be published, and critics are still very cautious even about embracing the idea that the hobbits represent a new species at all. But while he agrees that more evidence is needed, Daniel Lieberman, a Harvard paleontologist who composed a commentary on the new discovery for Nature, writes: "...it seems reasonable for Morwood and colleagues to stick to their original hypothesis that H. floresiensis is a new species...
DIED. JOHN OSTROM, 77, Yale paleontologist who popularized the theory that dinosaurs are linked with modern birds; of pneumonia; in Litchfield, Conn. With the 1964 discovery of a two-legged creature with razor-sharp claws he called Deinonychus, or "terrible claw," and subsequent work cementing his theory, he began a campaign, largely successful, to convince scientists that at least some of the prehistoric beings were not, as long assumed, slow, dim-witted reptiles but speedy, warm-blooded, carnivorous predators that had much in common with today's flightless birds...
...least NBC has made a sitcom about people who don't drink merlot in penthouses. (Whereas Four Kings, a midseason sitcom with Seth Green, sounds like a parody of a derivative NBC sitcom concept: four single young guys inherit a huge Manhattan apartment. Is one of them a paleontologist...
...meat eaters to elephant-size vegetarians. Falcarius, as it turns out, was dug up by a black-market fossil collector named Lawrence Walker, who found it on federal land in Utah while digging at night under a tarp. Convinced he was onto something big, the poacher tipped off a paleontologist he knew, James Kirkland, and led him to the site. Kirkland tried to protect his source but, asked under oath how the dinosaur was discovered, reluctantly turned Walker in. Kirkland got his 15 minutes of fame last week. Walker served five months in prison. --By Coco Masters