Animal Planet

lswot · Post by **lswot** » Thu Feb 24, 2005 11:46 am

A 115-million-year-old fossil of a tiny egg-laying mammal thought to be related to the platypus provides compelling evidence of multiple origins of acute hearing in humans and other mammals.

Huh?

Henry J · Post by **Henry J** » Thu Feb 24, 2005 12:04 pm

Say what? Speak up!

lswot · Post by **lswot** » Thu Feb 24, 2005 12:04 pm

Henry J · Post by **Henry J** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 9:10 am

The Oldest Homo Sapiens: Fossils Push Human Emergence Back To 195,000 Years Ago

Now, a new study of the 1967 fossil site indicates the earliest known members of our species, Homo sapiens, roamed Africa about 195,000 years ago.

(Where's Tarzan when ya need 'im?)

Global Warming Led To Atmospheric Hydrogen Sulfide And Permian Extinction

Volcanic eruptions in Siberia 251 million years ago may have started a cascade of events leading to high hydrogen sulfide levels in the oceans and atmosphere and precipitating the largest mass extinction in Earth’s history,

(Just don't think about the smell...)

lswot · Post by **lswot** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 11:16 am

(Just don't think about the smell...)

Just what I was thinking.......

Henry J · Post by **Henry J** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 8:57 am

'Hobbit' fossil likely represents new branch on human family tree

A fossil of a diminutive human nicknamed "the Hobbit" likely represents a previously unrecognized species of early humans, according to the results of a detailed comparison of the fossil's brain case with those of humans, apes and other human ancestors.

lswot · Post by **lswot** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 4:05 pm

A fossil of a diminutive human nicknamed "the Hobbit" likely represents a previously unrecognized species of early humans, according to the results of a detailed comparison of the fossil's brain case with those of humans, apes and other human ancestors.

Dang.....another 'theory'?

Henry J · Post by **Henry J** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 9:14 pm

No bones about it!

Wait, let me rephrase that...

Well, yeah!

Henry

Henry J · Post by **Henry J** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 9:36 am

NEW HUMAN ANCESTOR FOSSIL DISCOVERY IN AFAR REGION OF ETHIOPIA

A team led by Drs. Yohannes Haile-Selassie and Bruce Latimer of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, [...] located new hominid-bearing localities in the Burtele Kebele of Mille district in Zone One of the Afar Regional State.

Henry J · Post by **Henry J** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 10:08 am

NEW DINOSAUR RAPTOR FOUND; FIRST IN SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE

Scientists at Ohio State University and the Argentine Museum of Natural History have identified a new species of raptor dinosaur from fossils found in Patagonia -- the very southern tip of South America.

lswot · Post by **lswot** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 12:19 pm

ANOTHER one?????

Henry J · Post by **Henry J** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 9:59 pm

Yep, another dinosaur.

Henry

lswot · Post by **lswot** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 12:20 pm

Henry J wrote:Yep, another dinosaur.

Henry

Oh, dear! So.....does that mean they'll be having a Jurassic !V?

Henry J · Post by **Henry J** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 2:16 pm

IV? Have there already been III of those? There was the first one, then one that was sort of King Kong with T-Rex instead of the big ape.

Henry

lswot · Post by **lswot** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 12:24 pm

Yep......III

Jurassic Park, An adventure 65 Million Years in the Making.
The Lost World, Somthing Has Survived
Jurassic Park III

Aren't you glad you asked.