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...Pietraroia limestone beds near Naples, Italy, are celebrated for the exquisite fossils they've yielded up since the early 1800s--gorgeously preserved specimens of prehistoric fish and a few birds. No dinosaurs, though. While the rocks date back some 110 million years, smack in the middle of the terrible lizards' reign, not a single dinosaur bone had ever been found there. As far as amateur paleontologist Giovanni Todesco knew, that dismal record was still intact even after he unearthed a 9-in.-long specimen about a decade ago. The nearly complete skeleton, missing only its tail and the lower part...
...matter Scipionyx's evolutionary significance, its aesthetic significance is clear. "It really is a beautiful specimen," says Norell. On that, he gets no disagreement from anybody...
...Christmas Poo; and to understand Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo, it is necessary to understand his origins as recently described by Trey Parker, one of the show's creators. Now, it may not be immediately obvious why anyone would want to understand a series that features a stool specimen wearing a sailor hat and speaking with the voice of a castrato ventriloquist. But South Park, a cartoon about four profane third-graders, is the latest giant asteroid to slam into American pop culture, and so it requires our attention. Fortunately, it is also very funny, and Parker...
...knew that she had another specimen in her lab, taken from a 13-year-old girl admitted to Prince of Wales Hospital so sick that she had been placed on a respirator. The hospital had identified the underlying virus as Influenza A but wanted Lim to determine the subtype. Lim asked her lab technicians to come in early the next morning, Saturday, Dec. 6, to test specimens from the two patients. Both again reacted to the H5 reagents...
...concedes, however, that he was startled when Osterhaus told him about the three-year-old boy who had died on May 21, the day after Lim received his specimen. Webster also wondered whether the H5 was merely a contaminant. Osterhaus assured him it was not. After the call, Webster taped a note to the wall over his desk: H5 IN A CHILD...