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Pole Vault--1. Nathan Way, Yale, 15-ft., 6-in.; 2. Scott Ostrom, Princeton, 15-ft., 2-in.; 3. Mark Murpley, Brown, 15-ft., 2--in.; 4. Stephen Pinney, Harvard...
...Archaeopteryx. Last week's announcement was based on two fragmentary fossil skeletons found in the arid badlands of western Texas in 1984 by Texas Tech University Paleontologist Sankar Chatterjee. They suggest that Protoavis was a contemporary of the earliest dinosaurs. "If the identification is correct," says Yale Paleobiologist John Ostrom, who has examined the crow-size remains, "it has to send us back to the drawing board...
...reluctant to render a final verdict. If additional Protoavis specimens bolster Chatterjee's interpretation, it would indicate that birds appeared and diversified much earlier than scientists had believed. "Paleontology is like dealing with a 10,000-piece jigsaw puzzle for which you only have 15," says Ostrom. "This fossil gives you another 15 or 20 pieces of the puzzle...
...skull and bone does not settle such lingering questions a what killed off the dinosaurs 65 million years ago and whether they were warm blooded or cold. Yet even the most trivia news from the dinosaur world seems to hold everybody in thrall. Adds Yale Pale ontologist John Ostrom: ''It's good busines for the museum and for Yale...