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...York City calls Liaoning's "Pompeii layer," a 10-ft.-thick stratum of ash and sand. It was deposited so quickly that, like the ash from the infamous eruption in Italy, it buried creatures alive wherever they were standing--or snoozing. This one was tiny: excluding its tail, it's about the size of a Rock Cornish hen. That some of its bones have not completely fused indicates that this particular specimen was not quite fully grown...
...only are troodontids very closely related to birds," says Norell, "but this particular one is in a stereotypical resting pose of birds." The sleeping dragon was found sitting on its hindlimbs, its forelimbs folded at its side, its head tucked under its left elbow and its long tail curled around its body. Experts believe modern birds sleep in a similar position to conserve heat; presumably Mei long did too, which suggests that the animal was warm-blooded. If that was the case, says Norell, it also offers an explanation for feathers: "It's likely they first evolved for insulation rather...
...game after dropping four consecutive contests to start the year. It came as a great surprise, then, when Princeton pushed the Crimson to the brink in Cambridge last October, tying the game with a late fourth-quarter score, and falling only on a Garret Schires touchdown pass on the tail end of the overtime shootout...
Keilis-Borok calls his approach "tail wags the dog," the tail referring to patterns of seismic activity that appear to presage large tremors. (He does not try to forecast smaller events, like the earthquake swarms that rumbled beneath Mount St. Helens before it erupted last week, or the more significant quakes that perturbed Parkfield, Calif.) At first he and his colleagues looked for strong quakes that had already occurred, then scrolled backward through years of seismic data. More recently they have been working with current seismic records as well. Their computer programs home in on small quakes that occur...
...Mawurndjul's family mine a pure white clay, believed to be the essence of Ngalyod, which forms the foundation for his paintings. In recent years, Mawurndjul has allowed ever larger swathes of delek to shine through, as bright as the sun or the flick of a rainbow serpent's tail. Perhaps viewers should wear sunglasses to the show. Captured here is the white-hot flash of an art in motion; who knows where it might go next...