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...eating dinosaurs. Now a dramatic discovery announced in the current Science suggests that the carnivores had a nesting instinct as well. Working with a U.S.-Mongolian team in the remote Gobi Desert, paleontologist Mark Norell of New York City's American Museum of Natural History found the nearly complete skeleton of a predatory-dinosaur embryo, the first ever discovered, fossilized just as it was about to hatch during the Cretaceous period, more than 70 million years ago. The embryo and its potato-size egg, found in a rocky nest along with at least eight other eggs, are from a kind...
...cloven feet. But Todd emerges the more likely contender, with an irrepressibly destructive influence and inhuman discourse which portray him as some eternal diabolic force. Enigmatically, he informs his family, "I think I died long ago... I'll be here long after you're gone..." while erecting the skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus Rex he mysteriously digs up in the back yard of the family mansion. The skeleton becomes a symbol of death and extinction, its reconstruction paralleling the demise of the family until in the final scene its imposing silhouette is cast against the bone-bare walls of the abandoned...
Paleoanthropologists have not unearthed anything this revolutionary since 1974, when the famous fossil skeleton known as Lucy was discovered about 50 miles north of the current find. That 3.2 million-year-old female hominid had some human characteristics -- most notably, she walked on two legs rather than four -- but skull and tooth fragments indicated she was somewhat apelike as well. She fit nicely into the shared-ancestor theory first put forward by Charles Darwin and supported by modern comparisons between human and ape proteins and DNA. The divergence between the ape and human lines, argued the biochemists, came somewhere between...
...Beach public library, he also tutored illiterates, who in turn guided him to some of the area"s more exotic landmarks. On his own, Theroux discovered the La Brea tar pits, the world"s largest mastodon graveyard, which conatins what he calls a "cynical metaphor" for Los Angeles: the skeleton of a woman who died about 9,000 years ago."Her skull was bashed in by a blunt object: this first Angeleno, the wall label tells you, was also LA's first known homicide victim...
JUST ABOUT EVERYBODY HAS HEARD OF Lucy, the diminutive, apelike superstar of human evolution. The discovery of her fossilized partial skeleton in 1974 was startling evidence that humanity's ancestors walked the earth more than 3 million years ago, hundreds of thousands of years earlier than anyone had imagined. Since that find, paleontologists have unearthed many similar bones, some even older than Lucy's, in the same part of Ethiopia where she was found. Most believe that all the fossils come from a single species (scientific name: Australopithecus afarensis) and that this species was probably the forerunner of all later...