Memoirs of Museum Victoria Originally Posted: July 25, 2016 Authors: Louis L. Jacobs1, MichaelJ. Polcyn1, Octávio Mateus, Anne S. Schulp, António Olímpio Gonçalves and Maria Luísa Morais Roy M. Huffington Department of Earth Sciences, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, United States (jacobs@smu.edu; mpolcyn@smu.edu) Abstract: The separation of Africa from South America and the growth of […]
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The Rock Report Originally Posted: July 18, 2016 Meet: Eveline Kuchmak Another Southern Methodist University alumna (Pony Up!), Eveline graduated with her bachelor’s degree in Anthropology and Economic Sociology. Growing up she “lived for trips to art and science museums, space camp, Pony Club veterinary workshops, and the latest issue of National Geographic.” She was homeschooled […]
Journal of Sedimentary Research Originally Posted: July 19, 2016 Congratulations to Timothy S. Myers, Neil J. Tabor, Louis L. Jacobs and Robert Bussert, co authors of a new paper in the Journal of Sedimentary Research titled “EFFECTS OF DIFFERENT ORGANIC-MATTER SOURCES ON ESTIMATES OF ATMOSPHERIC AND SOIL pCO2 USING PEDOGENIC CARBONATE.” READ MORE
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Originally Posted: June 29, 2016 SMU alumna, Katharina Marino, who used to prepare fossils in the Shuler labs and then worked as an educator at the Perot Museum, is now pursuing a Master’s degree in science communication at the University of Otago in New Zealand. She has started a blog in which she interviews scientists. […]
KERA News Originally Posted: June 29, 2016 CT scans aren’t just for people — they can also be used on dinosaurs. A skull from the Pawpawsaurus was discovered in North Texas in the early ’90s. It was recently scanned, allowing scientists to digitally rebuild the dinosaur’s brain. Louis Jacobs is a professor of paleontology at […]
Journal of Systematic Palaeontology Originally Posted: June 6, 2016 Ronald S. Tykoski and Anthony R. Fiorillo recently published new research titled, An articulated cervical series of Alamosaurus sanjuanensis Gilmore, 1922 (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from Texas: new perspective on the relationships of North America’s last giant sauropod. READ MORE
Live Science Originally Posted: May 26, 2016 The armored cousin of the Ankylosaurus dinosaur didn’t have a football-size club on its tail, but it did have a super sense of smell, said scientists who examined its skull. The Cretaceous-age Pawpawsaurus campbelli walked on all fours and lived in ancient Texas about 100 million years ago, the researchers said. It […]
SMU Research Originally Posted: May 23, 2016 Pawpawsaurus’s hearing wasn’t keen, and it lacked the infamous tail club of Ankylosaurus. But first-ever CT scans of Pawpawsaurus’s skull indicate the dino’s saving grace from predators may have been an acute sense of smell. Well-known armored dinosaur Ankylosaurus is famous for a hard knobby layer of bone […]
Modern Readers Originally Posted: May 9, 2016 Don’t let those sharp teeth fool you, because this ancient hammerhead reptile had no appetite for meat. The hammerhead’s most distinctive feature was its two menacing rows of teeth, with one group resembling needles and another group resembling chisels. That would normally hint that it was a carnivore, and […]