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Sunday, June 26, 2005

Revueltosaurus skeleton unearthed at Petrified Forest upsets dinosaur tale. The fossilized skeleton of a small crocodile relative excavated last year at Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona throws a wrench into theories of how and where the dinosaurs arose more than 210 million years ago at the end of the Triassic Period. The animal, one of many creatures from [Biology News Net]
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The making and breaking of microtubules. Microtubules are active protein polymers critical to the structure and function of cells and the process of cell division. In a living cell their growing ends constantly elongate and retreat in a thrashing frenzy of polymerization and depolymerization, like the writhing snakes of Medusa's hair. Known prosaically as "dynamic instability," [Biology News Net]
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Lost world. The cavern resembles a Tolkien paperback cover. It is gigantic. In the emerald twilight seeping through the roof, we can make out the walls of buildings. [Archaeology - Topix.net]
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Prehistory and Prediction: Archaeology and ArcGIS in Cultural.... Featured paper by Seth Johnstone. The utilization of ESRI's ArcGIS software greatly facilitates the management of cultural resources on Federal lands. [Archaeology - Topix.net]
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Researchers Simulate Long-Gone Societies of the American Southwest. According to new research, climate change alone cannot explain why the Puebloan people-also known as Anasazi-abruptly abandoned the Four Corners region of the U.S. Southwest in the 1300s after residing there ... [Archaeology - Topix.net]
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