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...book, by Neenyah Ostrom, argues that AIDS is actually Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and is caused by a strain of the human herpes virus, instead of by HIV, a virus commonly thought to cause the disease...
...they are sometimes hard to distinguish, even in living animals. Moreover, making generalizations about the relationship between an animal's activity level and its metabolism can be misleading. "We tend to think that cold-blooded animals are sluggish, but that's not very accurate," says Yale paleontologist John Ostrom. "Some snakes, lizards and crocodiles can move faster than humans can. At the same time, we tend to think that warm-blooded animals are fast and very active, but the average house cat spends a lot of time snoozing...
Pole Vault--1. Nathan Way, Yale, 15-ft., 6-in.; 2. Scott Ostrom, Princeton, 15-ft., 2-in.; 3. Mark Murpley, Brown, 15-ft., 2--in.; 4. Stephen Pinney, Harvard...
...Archaeopteryx. Last week's announcement was based on two fragmentary fossil skeletons found in the arid badlands of western Texas in 1984 by Texas Tech University Paleontologist Sankar Chatterjee. They suggest that Protoavis was a contemporary of the earliest dinosaurs. "If the identification is correct," says Yale Paleobiologist John Ostrom, who has examined the crow-size remains, "it has to send us back to the drawing board...
...reluctant to render a final verdict. If additional Protoavis specimens bolster Chatterjee's interpretation, it would indicate that birds appeared and diversified much earlier than scientists had believed. "Paleontology is like dealing with a 10,000-piece jigsaw puzzle for which you only have 15," says Ostrom. "This fossil gives you another 15 or 20 pieces of the puzzle...