Paleontology

Reconstructing The Brain Morphology Of Homo Liujiang Cranium Fossil (Medical News Today)

20 Jul 2008

Hominin fossils are the most important materials for exploring human origins and evolution. Since most hominin fossils are incomplete, or filled with a heavy calcified matrix, it is difficult or often impossible to reconstruct the endocast in a real fossil without destroying it. Accordingly, traditional methods limited the study of human brain evolution.

Santa Barbara museum volunteers are busy spiffing up fossil of mammoth found in Moorpark (Ventura County Star)

20 Jul 2008

Using a special microtool, 17-year old Mariana Prestigia of Santa Barbara slowly and carefully picked at the dirt matrix surrounding several bones sitting on a table in front of her.

' Dinosaurs' thunder into Harbor Yard (Connecticut Post)

19 Jul 2008

It used to be that in order to spend some quality time with your favorite dinosaur, you'd have to visit a bunch of reconstructed bones at the local natural history museum.