Friday Headlines, June 7, 2013
THE LATEST IN THE GEOSCIENCES
I admit there seems to be a paleontology theme here…
DIG IN WYOMING UNCOVERS THREE TRICERATOPS SKELETONS
Digging efforts began in May at a new site on ranch land in Newcastle, Wyoming. Thus far, three Triceratops skeletons, two adults and one juvenile, have been uncovered. The largest of the skeletons is being hailed as potentially the most complete Triceratops skeleton ever found. Some of the workers go so far as to suggest that this may represent a family group of mother, father, and child, or perhaps two adult females looking after a young one.
Regardless, these Triceratops seem to have met an unpleasant fate. There is abundant evidence of feeding upon the bones by large carnivorous dinosaurs like Tyrannosaurus rex. It T. rex is the culprit, then this may be the first evidence of a feeding site for the giant carnivore.
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EXCLUSIVE: THE FIRST PICTURES OF BLOOD FROM A 10,000 YEAR OLD SIBERIAN WOOLLY MAMMOTH
A female wooly mammoth was recently uncovered from Siberia. The exciting thing about it is that it still contained liquid blood.
There wasn’t a lot, of course, but to find blood from an animal that died thousands of years ago is a pretty big deal.
Alas, this does not mean that we will be cloning mammoths very soon (à la Jurassic Park). That technology just doesn’t exist.
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