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...shroud is starting to come off that mystery, thanks to a discovery reported last week in the journal Science. Digging in Madagascar, an international team headed by John Flynn of Chicago's Field Museum has unearthed the fossil jaws of two dinosaurs that appear to be around 230 million years old. "These are either the earliest or among the earliest dinosaurs known," comments University of Pennsylvania paleontologist Neil Shubin. The scientists also found fossils of eight other primitive animals, some of which are a key to the evolution of mammals, which arose at about the same time as the dinosaurs...
...rocks that held the fossils didn't have the right minerals for radiometric dating. So the researchers relied on known ages of kindred vertebrates (for example, the rhynchosaurs appear to be anatomically primitive cousins of ones known to be about 228 million years old). The scientists pegged the Madagascar fauna at about 2 million years older...
...Raven looks to the wide world to build other countries' capacities for sustainable development. Two areas that he regards as especially critical are Madagascar and the northern Andes. Madagascar has half as many plants as all tropical Africa (about 11,000), and the great majority are found nowhere else. The Missouri Garden has been active there since the early 1970s, helping train and support the country in evaluating and protecting threatened areas. In the northern Andes, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru are home to at least one-fifth of the world's biodiversity, including perhaps 60,000 species of plants, endangered...
Citing examples such as Coca-Cola's $35 million production and distribution plant in Angola and clothing company The Limited, Inc.'s plan to develop stores in Mauritius and Madagascar, Rice urged her listeners, most of whom were originally from Africa, to take their business know-how back to their communities...
...pioneers who drove cattle to California during the Gold Rush. She advises using a variety of documents, explaining that "a South Carolina Dutch slave owner's documents can help locate black cousins in the Netherlands. Census records might find a Chinese ancestor in Mississippi or one born in Canada, Madagascar, New Zealand or, of course, the Caribbean." Finding the right name provides many clues. To students in his genealogy classes at Chicago State University, Tony Burroughs says that "in many instances, a former slave did not use the name of the former slave owner." He suggests locating records, such...