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Tetrapod World: May 2015
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Monday, 25 May 2015. TW:eed Project meeting - new advances. Recently we held out seventh team meeting of the TW:eed Project, this time at the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge. 20 members of the project met together for two days of talks, discussions and workshops. As we are now nearing the end of the project (just over a year remaining) it’s really great to see the results coming together and new research avenues being discussed. Members of Team TW:eed at our seventh project meeting. Romer&...
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Tetrapod World: August 2015
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Monday, 31 August 2015. This August was the TW:eed Project’s Microfossil Month at the University of Leicester. With the help of volunteers, we examined many samples from our main field site. The aim was to record the microfossils present in sieved samples, and identify differences in the assemblages present in various rock types and stratigraphic levels throughout the Ballagan Formation. Some of the volunteers this month, from left to right: Jake, Rebecca, Matthew and Kate. Thursday, 6 August 2015. Durin...
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Tetrapod World: May 2014
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Monday, 19 May 2014. In recent months several TW:eed Project scientists have been out and about doing some fieldwork. Here is a short summary:. A fossil-plant bed at Coquetdale. The sequence at Ayr, with the Heads of Ayr in the background. And CTV News Atlantic. And highlighted the importance of the site. They examined material from lungfish, rhizodonts, actinopterygians and tetrapods. Go to our TW:eed Project Facebook. Page to find out more about the visit. The Blue Beach field exposure. The Symposium o...
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Kumtuks Tahlkie: Delayed Discourse on Diplodocine Discontinuation
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Studying the past and defining the future in the Great Northwest. Delayed Discourse on Diplodocine Discontinuation. The Natural History Museum. It's been another cold, dark winter both literally and, as far as this blog is concerned, figuratively. I've just returned to Iowa following Cornell's Spring Break and as the snow is melting, the flowers are sprouting, and the weather is warming, I thought it was high time to wake the Mammoth Prairie from its hibernation. And architect Alfred Waterhouse. Wide Wor...
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Tetrapod World: February 2015
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Friday, 20 February 2015. Meet the TW:eed Team: Nick Fraser. Nick Fraser is head of the Department of Natural Sciences at the NationalMuseums of Scotland. In Edinburgh. His role on the TW:eed Project is to manage the curation of vertebrate and other important fossils discovered during the project, coordinate large-scale fieldwork activities, and oversee a national TW:eed Project museum exhibit (coming in 2016). Here Nick answers our questions and describes his research interests:. He is sadly missed.
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Kumtuks Tahlkie: Fossil (Gondwanan) Vertebrate(s) of the Month: Palorchestes & Diprotodon
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Studying the past and defining the future in the Great Northwest. Fossil (Gondwanan) Vertebrate(s) of the Month: Palorchestes. Giant Kangaroos and Wombats' by Charles R. Knight. Field Museum of Natural History. When the great paleoartist Charles R. Knight. Painted the mural at left in the 1920s, he thought he was depicting two unrelated marsupials from the Pleistocene of Australia. They were among the first fossils ever to be described from Australia - by no less a luminary than Sir Richard Owen. 1873, i...
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Kumtuks Tahlkie: How to Make a Good Nature Documentary
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Studying the past and defining the future in the Great Northwest. How to Make a Good Nature Documentary. Today, the Discovery Channel has been airing the BBC series. I had heard about the series before, but I'd been skeptical: it couldn't really be as good as everyone claimed it was, could it? Turns out that yes, it is. Here's why:. On the other hand, doesn't skimp on the carnage, whether it's a chimp cannibalizing an infant from another troop or a parasitic fungus erupting out of the head of an ant (in ...
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Kumtuks Tahlkie: An Exhibit for the Ages: 100 Years of the Laysan Cyclorama
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Studying the past and defining the future in the Great Northwest. An Exhibit for the Ages: 100 Years of the Laysan Cyclorama. Courtesy International Panorama Council. Exactly 100 year sago, on June 15th, 1914, the University of Iowa opened a new exhibit: a cyclorama. Of the wildlife of Laysan. An atoll at the tail end of the Hawaiian Islands and, at that time, a major seabird rookery. Many other displays have come and gone at the UI Museum of Natural History. Have replaced the Laysan albatrosses. To Lays...
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Kumtuks Tahlkie: Fossil Vertebrate of the Month: Diplodocus carnegii
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Studying the past and defining the future in the Great Northwest. Fossil Vertebrate of the Month: Diplodocus carnegii. Last month's Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. Meeting was held in Pittsburgh and while animal chosen for the conference logo was the awkwardly-named tetrapod Fedexia. There is another animal that will forever be associated with vertebrate paleontology in that city's Carnegie Museum of Natural History. Was alerted to the publicity value of sauropod. As gifts to museums in capitals acro...
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Kumtuks Tahlkie: Fossil Vertebrate of the Month - Terror Bird
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Studying the past and defining the future in the Great Northwest. Fossil Vertebrate of the Month - Terror Bird. This is the largest group of organisms I've ever featured as a FVOTM, but given that we're coming up on Halloween, it seemed appropriate to spotlight a family whose common name is based on how terrifying they were. Terror birds (or, more correctly, phorusrhacids), represented by the LA County Museum's. In the picture at left, were a group of giant. Flightless birds related to living seriemas.
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