Schwämme sind uns ja der Inbegriff eines primitiven und wohl harmlosen Lebewesens. Einfach am Meeresgrund festsitzen und vor sich hin filtrieren, das dürfte kaum bedrohlich wirken. Und manche Schwämme haben noch ein Nachleben als unsere Badegenossen. Also nichts, vor dem man sich wirklich in Acht nehmen muss, oder? Abgesehen davon, dass so etwas immer auch ein klein wenig auf die Größe der beteiligten ankommt (Hauskatzen sind niedlich, aber Löwen...). Aber Schwämme? Wenn man nicht gerade [...]
In winter time, when nights become longer and darker, stargazing can
be a fantastic experience and family activity. But in urban areas, the
stars disappear behind the skyglow caused by waste light [...]
Views of the Mahantango [21:06:00]
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I've been very busy these last few weeks going collecting and that has caused me to be a little backed up on the blog. Once the weather turns cold I will have more time to focus on writing entries. In the [...]
Buttes of the Cross in Canyonlands along the Green RiverDear Readers -I know I have been remiss in posting updates lately and for that I apologize. Life gets busy and sometimes posting takes a break.However, I [...]
Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs [18:17:00]
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The Big NewsVintana sertichi is a new Gondwanatherian mammal from Madagascar, and in expanding our knowledge of the clade beyond assorted jaw-y and tooth-y bits, it's a pretty significant discovery. It's one [...]
All dinosaurs may have lived in herds. Think about it. Suppose there’s a dinosaur called Dinosaurus. All Dinosaurus fossils are isolated. But what if it was like this? Dinosaurus traveled in herds. Every [...]
Con frecuencia, los dinófilos piensan cómo hubiese resultado tal o cual película si en lugar de poner a un ser humano o a cualquier otro animal como protagonista, se hubiera pensado en un dinosaurio. De [...]
Monday 10th November 2014 Perhaps the most sensitive, heart-breaking, yet necessary action we will have to take in this next century is abandoning our coastal cities as climate change threatens their very [...]
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In the North, we all know about the Ice Age. We generally agree that about 2 million years ago we started the Pleistocene Epoch. I'm not totally convinced that the day before this was all sunshine and [...]
Phylogenomics resolves the timing and pattern of insect evolution. 2014. B. Misof, et. al. Science
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Using a dataset consisting of 144 carefully chosen species, 1KITE scientists present [...]
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Question: I understand what weathering a storm is, but what does the term “weathering” mean in relation to soil? The simplest way to think about weathering is that it means
GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [12:30:00]
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The geological record preserved at John Day Fossil beds, in Oregon, USA, is very special. Rarely can you study a continuous succession through changing climates quite like you can at this National Park in the [...]
Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillín) [12:21:00]
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Entre los días 5 y 8 de Noviembre se celebró en el Hotel Estrel de Berlin (Alemania) el 74th Annual Meeting de la SVP, una de las citas más importantes dentro de la Paleontología de Vertebrados. Este [...]
Como cada mes compartimos el Boletín Digital. Noviembre destaca por actividades como la clásica Semana de la Ciencia en su edición XIV,o la exposición "2014 Año Internacional de la Cristalografía" que [...]
There is a treasure in the Mother Lode of California's Sierra Nevada. It lies hidden beneath the surface, but it's not gold. It is a wilderness, but has no beautiful trees or distant vistas. It is dark and [...]
Since a lot of people asked us how to get these paleoseismicity.org shirts which we distributed on several events before, we decided to provide a online shop here. We offer shirts and hoodies for women and men [...]
Bust out your planners, calendars, and PDAs (if you are throwback like that), it’s time to mark your calendars for the HMNS events of this week! Travel back in time and test your battle strategy with the War [...]
WATCH FOR ROCKS - Travels of a Sharp-Eyed Geologist [01:12:12]
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When I was hired as a seasonal interpretive ranger at Yellowstone back in May of 2011, I knew few details about our first national park except that most of it is in northwestern Wyoming, it encompasses a [...]
Laterne, Laterne, Sonne, Mond und Sterne: Am Martinstag erstreckt
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Geschichte der Geologie [18:56:00]
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Am 4. November 1922 öffnete Howard Carter die versiegelte Tür die zum Grab von Tutanchamun - Pharao im alten Ägypten von 1332 – 1323 v.Chr. - führte. Das Grab quoll über von kostbarem [...]
For Denis Tan, the MPA in Environmental Science and Policy program has exposed him to a wide variety of real world sustainability issues while training him to be a better team member and manager. Denis hopes [...]
WeBlog Aragosaurus [18:14:00]
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Un viejo sueño se acaba de hacer realidad en la investigación sobre el Iberón que nuestro equipo, junto con especialistas de toda Europa acaba de publicar. El Iberón o topillo de Cabrera, acaba de [...]
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Hoje foi defendida com sucesso a dissertação de mestrado de Diogo Mota sobre "Estudo zooarqueológico de restos faunísticos de época islâmica (séculos XII/XIII) de um silo do castelo de Aljezur" [...]
San Francisco has long been famed for its hills. There are 43 ... [ continue
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O congresso internacional da Sociedade de Paleontologia de Vertebrados (74th Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology) que decorreu em Berlim de 4 a 8 de Novembro de 2014 teve uma grande [...]
What is Kenny pointing at here? Why, it’s a boulder. Where did it come from? Look uphill: This is as perfect an example of root wedging as I’ve seen! Spotted it last Friday along the C&O Canal [...]
When Susie Maidment presented her in-progress research at SVP in Berlin last week, someone came in late, missed her “no tweeting, please” request, and posted a screenshot of the new work (since [...]
ALT-SOCIEDADE DE HISTÓRIA NATURAL [12:29:00]
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Nos passados dias 5-8 de novembro celebrou-se em Berlim o 74º encontro anual da Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. Nesta reunião foi apresentado, sob a forma de poster, o estudo de um novo conjunto de [...]
Geology for Global Development [11:00:08]
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Below we’ve listed details of a session that will be of interest to many of you at the EGU General Assembly, in Vienna, next spring. Many postgraduates and academic staff from across the UK and beyond [...]
Our colleague Franck Audemard spread the news that a special issue of the Journal of South American Earth Sciences (SAMES) will be published on “Regional moment tensors and stress field in South and [...]
Netzwerk für geowissenschaftliche Öffentlichkeitsarbeit [08:57:40]
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Der Geopark Nordisches Steinreich verschenkt: 5 geowissenschaftliche Projektwochen Frist: 31.12.2014
Hundreds of Earthquakes Beneath NevadaUSA Today Video: Volcanoes Scream Before They EruptWeather Network Russian Gold Reserves Growing RapidlyMining.com WaterWatch: Streamflow Conditions for North [...]
Saturday I led a walk for the members and friends of Wild Oakland to show off one of Oakland’s most striking places to encounter the Hayward fault. There was a nice turnout, about 60 people. I was glad [...]