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Market Basket: South Bend Chocolate owner opens Dino Store
Mark Tarner talks as passionately about the portion of a Titanosaurus tooth he found with his family during a trip to rural Nebraska as he does about making Christmas crunch and candy cane fudge. Most people associate Tarner with chocolate. Who knew the...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Family, Hobbies, Travel, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Creature feature: Who’s scarier — shark with buzz-saw bite or lamprey?
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesIf you thought the Creature from the Black Lagoon was terrifying, check out the new artist renderings of the Helicoprion–a ...... -
San Bernardino County experts find saber-tooth fossils near Vegas
L.A. NOWPaleontologists from the San Bernardino County Museum found fossils of the elusive sabre-toothed cat in the Nevada desert north of Las Vegas.... -
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Spend this weekend looking at life-size dinosaurs, watching exotic butterflies or singing your favorite songs from the hit-movie ‘Grease’. This weekend has all that and more! Read on for Toto’s top weekend picks: if you don’t see...Tags: Literature, Music, Human Interest, Entertainment, Culture
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In the Galleries -- May 19, 2013
In Aberdeen Aberdeen Recreation and Cultural Center Gallery, 225 Third Ave. S.E.: Pottery and ceramics show. Hours are from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Thursdays, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Fridays and 10 a.m. to noon Saturdays. 605-626-7081. Dacotah...Tags: Groton, Arts and Culture, Museums, Arts, Weddings
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Fossil finds hint at when apes and monkeys went separate ways
Scientists have added two species of ape and monkey to the evolutionary tree, filling in a 10-million-year gap in the fossil record from a period when apes and Old World monkeys diverged. Fossil specimens of jaws and teeth, collected by Ohio...Tags: Science and Technology, Research, Ohio University
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In Theory: Are parts of Scripture outdated and in need of change?
It's not often that a Christian minister agrees with the New Atheist movement, but the Rev. Michael Dowd believes it's possible when it comes to what he calls the "idolatry of the written word." A self-described "New Theist" — one who "value[s]...Tags: Religion and Belief, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Social Issues, Jesus Christ, Baptist
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Dinosaur heads home to Mongolia after odyssey ends in Queens
NEW YORK -- It's bad enough to go from roaming the earth as a fearsome predator to being uprooted and dragged across three continents, but to end up in a basement in Queens? No wonder the Tyrannosaurus bataar was broken up. Literally. But not for...Tags: Justice System, Mongolia, Lawyers, Paleontology, FBI
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Did dinosaur ancestors benefit from worst extinction on Earth?
Dinosaurs may have been wiped out by a mass extinction about 65 million years ago, but an earlier extinction event may have given their predecessors a leg up on the competition, according to a study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences....
Tags: Zambia, Paleontology, Tanzania, South Africa
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Renfrew geology trip includes panning for gold
Area residents can try their hand at panning for gold when geologist Jeri Jones leads a fossil-hunting field trip from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, May 4. The trip is sponsored by Renfrew Institute in partnership with the Franklin County Rock & Mineral...Tags: Photography and Video, Franklin County (Pennsylvania), Travel, Waynesboro (Waynesboro, Virginia), Washington Monument
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Evidence points toward solving evolutionary 'missing link'
With long arms, high shoulder blades and powerful fingers, the ancient creatures were built for climbing trees. But they also had long lower limbs, flat feet and a flexible lumbar spine that gave them a distinct evolutionary edge: They could cover long...Tags: Arizona State University, Africa, Museum of Natural History, Colleges and Universities, Flat Feet
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Scientists sequence DNA of a 'living fossil': the coelacanth
They're big, they're furtive, they're weird-looking. You almost certainly wouldn't want to dine on one, since they're endangered and are said to cause digestive distress in people who eat them. But the African coelacanth is extremely useful in at...
Tags: Africa, Cambridge (Middlesex, Massachusetts), Stranger Than Fiction, Science, Science and Technology
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