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3 hrs ago | New York Post

NY whiz-kid dropout a #!*in' genius

Shaggy-haired city hipster and Tumblr founder David Karp yesterday had two words for the $1.1 billion cash sale of his popular blogging site to Yahoo! The 26-year-old wunderkind, who grew up on the Upper West Side strolling the Museum of Natural History and sketching dinosaur bones, posted a message - where else? - on Tumblr to calm his users' ... (more)

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Related Topix: Tumblr, Dinosaur, Science, Flatiron District (New York, NY), Computers, Brooklyn, NY, New York, NY

4 hrs ago | Examiner.com

Pear nuclei, ear bones, gaming with rats, Minoan origins, cloning, Kepler

Atomic nuclei are mostly round but come in a number of other shapes. They have now found oscillating pear-shaped ones.

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Related Topix: Science, University of Houston

12 hrs ago | Burton Mail

Everybody walk the dinosaurs

WHEN something has a 10 million price tag, it's only fair to assume it's going to be pretty special.

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Related Topix: Dinosaur, Science

16 hrs ago | The Guardian

Separating the recent from the ancient past

It is not uncommon to come across claims of fossils being found in layers where we would not expect them to be, with combinations of animals from different geological eras coming together.

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Related Topix: Dinosaur, Science, Landslide

17 hrs ago | Free Republic

Scientist Stumped by Actual Dinosaur Skin

Being the first ever to examine a dinosaur fossil long buried in sedimentary rock is thrilling enough for a field researcher.

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Related Topix: Dinosaur, Science

20 hrs ago | University of Bristol news

Fossil brain teaser

A new study conducted at the University of Bristol and published online today in the Journal of Evolutionary Biology sheds light on how the brain and inner ear developed in dinosaurs.

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Related Topix: Dinosaur, Science, World News, Germany

Yesterday | Ventura County Star

Conejo kids think fossil dig is dino-mite

Jacob Thomas heads his dig team of his dad, Adam , and grandpa Keith in finding fossils at the Dino Dig site.

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Related Topix: Science

Sun May 19, 2013

The Daily Breeze

Trinty High student's research project wins award

A seventh-grader from Holy Trinity School in San Pedro recently won the 2013 award for Academic Excellence from the Southern California Paleontological Society for his research project.

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Related Topix: San Pedro, CA, Science

Kypost.Com

2-mile wide Asteroid to pass by Earth

Scientists compare it to the one that killed off the dinosaurs. But, before you start scrambling for the next shuttle flight off this planet, rest assured: It will not strike Earth.

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Related Topix: Dinosaur, Science

Examiner.com

Ancient human reverence for dogs found in Siberian dog burial study

A unique emotional and spiritual relationship between dogs and foragers in Early Neolithic Siberia was reported by paleontologists from Europe, the United States, and Russia in the open access peer reviewed journal Public Library of Scienc e on May 17, 2013.

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Related Topix: Science, Agriculture

Martinsville Bulletin

Dinos draw crowds to VMNH

An increase in visitors at the Virginia Museum of Natural History is being attributed largely to the popularity of two dinosaur-themed exhibits.

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Related Topix: Dinosaur, Science, Martinsville, VA

Sat May 18, 2013

www.ucmp.berkeley.edu | Vicki__L

Finding forams in the Caldecott Tunnel

Day after day, over the course of nearly three years, the massive tunnel borer worked its way through the sedimentary rock layers of the Berkeley Hills during the construction of the fourth bore of the Caldecott Tunnel, grinding up the rocks in the process into fist-size pieces that were later deposited outside the entrance of the tunnel.

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Related Topix: Science, Orinda, CA

LiveScience

Smuggled Dinosaur's Return May Boost Mongolian Paleontology

When Mongolia's most famous dinosaur, a relative of T. rex , returns to the Asian country on May 18, it returns to a homeland rich in dinosaur fossils, but with scant resources to display and study them.

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Related Topix: Dinosaur, Science, Mongolia, World News, Asia, Mongolia Travel, Travel, Asia Travel, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Arthritis in the age of dinosaurs

Paul Willis was leading a tour of fossil sites in western Queensland and poking around an old quarry when he stumbled upon a fossilised vertebra of an elasmosaur, the long-necked marine , which lived 100 million years ago.

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Related Topix: Dinosaur, Science

Fri May 17, 2013

Monsters and Critics

Asteroid flyby alert: Massive dark asteroid to whiz by Earth on May 31

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Canada Flintridge reports they are keeping an eye out for an asteroid reportedly 1.7 miles long, one big enough to cause the dinosaurs\' extinction if it ever connected with the planet.

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Related Topix: La Canada Flintridge, CA, Dinosaur, Science, Science / Technology, Space, Astronomy

News Observer

Life-size dinosaurs invade natural sciences museum

Asheville artist John Payne dreamed of bringing dinosaurs to life, and he worked for years to create metal dinosaur skeletons that, with the help of lever and pulley systems, move just as the living beasts might have.

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Related Topix: Dinosaur, Science, Asheville, NC, Raleigh, NC

Lake Elsinore Valley News

Ice Age bison remains found in I-15 corridor

The Ice Age bison's skull is encased in plaster to protect it during transportation to the San Diego Natural History Museum.

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Related Topix: Recreational Vehicle, Bison, Science, Fallbrook, CA, Pala, CA

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