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...opposition party took it very seriously. No one else did," said Shubin, a Currier House tutor...
...Neil H. Shubin, a fourth-year Harvard graduate student in biology, and Paul E. Olsen, a geology professor at Columbia University, had spent a relatively unproductive summer digging at the Nova Scotia site until a misadventure left them trapped by high tide near a cliff on the shore of the Bay of Fundy...
...Fossilgate" controversy is rapidly nearing extinction, because Grantham received the permit before Nunziata raised the issue in Parliament. Harvard and the Nova Scotia Museum are currently deciding the final home of the fossils, Shubin said...
...cliffs, part of a stratum of sedimentary shale and sandstone interleaved with volcanic basalt, date from between 225 million and 175 million years ago. The entire rock formation was long thought to be virtually devoid of fossils and thus of little interest to paleontologists. In fact, says Neil Shubin, 25, a graduate student in biology at Harvard, the site they discovered "looks like Rocky Road ice cream. It's dark rock absolutely splattered with bone." Says his partner, Geologist Paul Olsen, 32, of Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory: "We were shocked by the number of fossils...
Whether or not Anders is successful, the fossil trove is already providing fresh insights about the evolution of life on earth. Says Shubin: "The find is like a Rosetta stone. This period was one of tremendous geological upheaval. The continents were beginning to split apart, and there was a turnover among the animals. The modern world was basically set during this time...