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[Phillip Bigelow <bh162@scn.org>]

With aplogies to Ralph Chapman for borrowing  his subject header...


The latest issue of _Geotimes_  is abnormally full of *really* short
paleontology-related news blurbs (one dinosaur-related), so I thought I
would bring it to your collective attentions. Note that these are news
stories, with a guest editorial thrown in (by John Flynn).

In an attempt to be at least partially on-topic, I'll list the dinosaur
story first.

Geotimes 45(1), January, 2000.

Wright, L. 2000.  News Notes: Living fossils for their time. pp. 7-8.
(Talks about Paul Sereno's latest research on sauropods, and his finding
that some African sauropods were unusually primitive considering their
late geologic age (Cretaceous).  Briefly mentions the Niger sauropod
_Jobaria tiguidensis_.  Artwork by Michael Skrepnick).

Martin, R. 2000. The environmental stories of microfossils. pp. 19-21.
(A beginner-level introduction on the usefulness of studying fossil
micro-critters to deduce earth's past environmental history).

Flynn, J. 2000. Comment: Fossils for sale. pp. 5, 33.  (An overview of
the current problems that researchers face with the sale and trafficing
in vertebrate fossils by commercial collectors. Written by the president
of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology).

Cole, J. 2000. News Notes: Life and death of the one hit wonders. pp.
8-9. (An article on the Chicxulub crater (of K-T Boundary fame), and
other earth-shattering holes in the ground.  Interesting fact gleened
from the article: "The heat the impacts produce can be sustained up to
and exceeding 100,000 years because the heat is conducted into the rock
surrounding the site.")


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