Timothy Reynold's Blog (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Bozeman, Montana is located southwestern part of the state. The population is approximately 28,000, which makes it the fifth largest city in the state. Check the Bozeman Real estate listings for your choice of single-family dwellings and a limited number of condominiums and townhouses. Bozeman experiences an average of three hundred twenty days of sunshine each [...]
Macleans.ca (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Researchers likely overestimated number of species: expert
The Scientific View (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
Their demise comes after a three-horned dinosaur, Torosaurus, was assigned to the dustbin of history last month at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology meeting in the United Kingdom, the loss in recent years of quite a few duck-billed hadrosaurs and the probable disappearance of Nanotyrannus, a supposedly miniature Tyrannosaurus rex. These dinosaurs were not separate species, as some
thomasfortenberry.net (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
Should create a new kids mighty morphin’ dino tank character around this prehistoric super-turtle. Newly Discovered Ankylosaur Dinosaur Is ‘Biological Version Of An Army Tank’ A husband and wife team of American paleontologists has discovered a new species of dinosaur that lived 112 million years ago during the early Cretaceous of central Montana. The new dinosaur, a [...]
Darwinaia (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
Anyone who’s followed the Young Earth Creationist movement and paleontology lately should know about the 2005 discovery of T-Rex blood vessels by Mary Schweitzer et al. Young Earth Creationists have jumped on the find (here for example). Creationists claim that the proteins preserved were far too fragile to have survived for “millions of years” and [...]
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
From “Whose father was he?” a four-part essay on tracking down the story of three children whose photograph was discovered on the corpse of a Union soldier killed at the Battle of Gettysburg, in 1863: Perhaps more than any other artifact, the photograph has engaged our thoughts about time and eternity. I say “perhaps,” because the [...]
John's Blog (Free subscription) | 21/09/2009
I met Jack Horner a few weeks ago, at Adventures of the Mind, and completely enjoyed my time talking with him. He’s best known as the dino-tech-advisor expert for the Jurassic Park movies, but his day job is as a professor at Montana State University and as head of the Museum of the Rockies — [...]
Stuck In Customs (Free subscription) | 07/09/2009
The triceratops definitely falls into one of those “Top 5″ dinosaurs of my youth. Now there are so many, I hardly know where to begin. I go through my son’s dinosaur books and I am shocked at how many different names there are. I can’t keep track of all that. Plus, [...]
decorabilia (Free subscription) | 26/08/2009
Earlier this summer, a group of unrowdy atheists, agnostics, freethinkers, and otherwise scientifically inclined skeptics descended upon Ken Ham's infamous Creation "Museum" in Petersburg, Kentucky . Pseudoscience-bashing fun was had by all. As an intellectual palate-cleanser, I'd recommend that they make tracks to the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana, which I visited for the first...
Hip and Thigh (Free subscription) | 05/08/2009
This story was published over the weekend: Reexamination of T. rex Verifies Disputed Biochemical Remains Keep in mind as I move along this comes from a Darwinian evolutionary website that wants nothing to do with those hill billy creationists. Whether or not the remains of a tyrannosaurus found in Montana a number of years ago contained the remnants of red blood cells and soft tissue has been an on-going...
New West Network Cities: Idaho Nort (Free subscription) | 05/08/2009
Wade Dokken, developer of the ill-fated Ameya Preserve south of Livingston and now the target of a lawsuit for allegedly reneging on a deal with the Museum of the Rockies, is not giving up on the high-end real estate business: he recently acquired the rights to be the Christies's Great Estates real estate affiliate for much of Montana. Ameya Preserve, a controversial effort to build a luxury second-home...
New West Network Cities: Idaho Nort (Free subscription) | 02/08/2009
The Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman has sued Wade Dokken, developer of the now-defunct Ameya Preserve south of Livingston, for failing to honor a $2 million pledge to the museum and its star paleontologist, Jack Horner, reports the Associated Press. Dokken, a North Dakota native who made a fortune on Wall Street, aimed to create a super-luxury development featuring cultural amenities such as dinoseaur...
News from www.lacrossetribune.com (Free subscription) | 17/04/2009
Take a chicken, subtract the feathers, give it teeth, swap three long fingers for each wing and add a tail.
News from www.lacrossetribune.com (Free subscription) | 15/04/2009
NCUR is coming to La Crosse, and it’s generating a buzz among University of Wisconsin-La Crosse students and staff.
Photonics.com (Free subscription) | 20/02/2009
Scientists are using laser imaging and 3-D computer modeling to investigate how fat -- or fit -- Tyrannosaurus rex (T. rex) and his fellow dinosaurs w
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