Fossils

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.

On Campus: New Web site all about geology (Wisconsin State Journal)

20 Jul 2008

A new Web site is under construction to be a Wisconsin geologic Wikipedia of sorts, with user-generated content about rock exposures, fossils, sinkholes and more across the state. Called the Wisconsin Geologic Record, the site is being created by geologists at UW-Richland, UW-Madison and the Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey. "It 's the first of its kind anywhere as far as we know, ...

Missing plant fossils could hold key to Earth's reaction to global warming in future (New Kerala)

20 Jul 2008

London, July 19 : New data has suggested that ocean temperatures could have soared as high as 41 °C during the Eocene period 55 to 34 million years ago, evidence of which might be in missing plant fossils from that period, which holds the key to how our planet will respond to global warming in the future.