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Drone video footage of Malawi dig site

YouTube Originally Posted: August 22, 2016 American archaeologists of their field areas in Malawi, where Louis Jacobs is now. He is working with Dr. Elizabeth Gomani Chindebvu, former SMU graduate student.  The Mwakasyunguti valley is below the red layer where the archaeologists were digging.  The dinosaur beds are the light colored beds. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YPYHn26Twk&feature=youtu.be[/youtube]

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Laser Beats Rock: Armored Dinosaur May Have Relied Most on Sense of Smell

Laser Beats Rock Originally Posted: July 25, 2016 Independent science journalist Sarah Puschmann covered the research of SMU Earth Sciences Professor Louis L. Jacobs in a post on her blog “Armored Dinosaur May Have Relied Most on Sense of Smell.” A professor in Dedman College‘s Roy M. Huffington Department of Earth Sciences, Jacobs is co-author […]

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Post-Gondwana Africa and the vertebrate history of the Angolan Atlantic Coast

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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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

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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Thanks To CT Scans, Scientists Know A Lot About Texas’ Pawpawsaurus Dinosaur

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 […]

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Two giant sinkholes in West Texas expanding, researchers say

Star Telegram Originally Posted: June 17, 2016 A couple of giant sinkholes in the West Texas oil patch are apparently expanding, and might eventually converge into one gigantic hole. The sinkholes are about a mile apart and sit between Wink and Kermit off I-20 west of Midland-Odessa. They were caused by lots of oil and gas extraction, which peaked […]

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Brian Stump, Earth sciences, speaks at first TEDxGreenhillSchool

Preston Hollow People Originally Posted: June 3, 2016 After a year of planning and preparation, a group of students hosted the first TEDxGreenhillSchool on April 2. The idea stemmed from a weekly tradition started by Greenhill upper school science teacher Chris Bigenho, who started emailing various TED Talks each Tuesday. These quickly became known as […]

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Dino Senses: Ankylosaurus Cousin Had a Super Sniffer

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 […]