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...record is essentially the first official solo album from the new father, who previously spent his adult life nurturing underground music. He has played in influential underground bands like Dinosaur Jr., Sebadoh, and the Folk Implosion...
Barlow’s fans continually requested their own pet sounds in an atmosphere reminiscent of a gathering of old friends. Barlow graciously accepted many requests, and mixed enjoyable crowd banter in with his mellifluous singing. Despite a history of rough musical relations (he was booted from Dinosaur Jr. because of his overbearing nature, and was responsible also for the breakups of both Sebadoh and the Folk Implosion), Barlow came off as neither stern nor aloof, and affably shared memories and stories with the audience all night...
...that picture changed dramatically last week with the announcement in Nature of two impressive fossils. One, of a brand-new species dubbed Repenomamus giganticus, demolishes the notion that most dinosaur-age mammals were never larger than squirrels. The animal, which lived some 130 million years ago, had the dimensions of a midsize dog or large badger--by far the biggest dinosaur-age mammal ever found. And the second, a new specimen of a previously discovered species called Repenomamus robustus, refutes the notion that it was always the mammals that got eaten. Inside the skeleton where the animal's stomach would...
After they did, however, it didn't take them long to realize they had struck scientific gold. "The teeth showed that [the animal's last meal] was a dinosaur, not a mammal," says Hu. On closer examination, the scientists determined that the remains were those of a juvenile psittacosaur, a herbivore known to inhabit the region. Some of the arm and leg bones were still attached to each other, suggesting that R. robustus didn't chew its food thoroughly but wolfed it down in large chunks...
...clear that mammals did fill some of the niches reserved for larger animals. "It's quite possible," says Anne Weil, a Duke University paleontologist who wrote a commentary accompanying the Nature report, "that they competed with dinosaurs for the same prey." And because they ate dinosaurs, she says, they may even have had an influence on dinosaur evolution. What sort of influence? "We don't know," she says. "That's how it is with the best finds. They leave you with more questions than answers." Those answers may be lurking under the barely scratched surface of Liaoning province. --Reported...