Paleontology

Number Of Fat Cells Remains Constant From Teenhood In All Body Types (Science Daily)

12 May 2008

The radioactive carbon-14 produced by above-ground nuclear testing in the 1950s and '60s has helped researchers determine that the number of fat cells in a human's body, whether lean or obese, is established during the teenage years. Changes in fat mass in adulthood can be attributed mainly to changes in fat cell volume, not an increase in the actual number of fat cells.

English Channel coast bursts with of fossils (San Francisco Chronicle)

11 May 2008

At first glance, it looks like another pebbly English beach - what the Brits call a "shingle beach": an expanse of gray-white rocks stretching from the white, chalky cliff faces on one side to the choppy waters of the English Channel on the other. But then,...

Whale of a find: Oaky Woods backers cite fossil discovery (Macon Telegraph)

11 May 2008

John Trussell has spent 31 years looking for a whale bone in the Oaky Woods wilderness in Houston County, but Amanda Rhonemus found one on her first visit.