Albuquerque Journal newspaper stories
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ABQJOURNAL GO: Good to the Bone
... have heard, an oreodont has nothing to do with an Oreo. Gary Morgan gets the “cookie question” now and then. As a curator for paleontology at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science, Morgan also gets this: How does it feel to hold one of the most important recent fossil ...
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ABQjournal Opinion: Letters to the Editor
... Letters to the Editor By . Museum Stonewalling Routine I READ WITH great interest your editorial concerning a dispute between a student of paleontology and the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. ... I agree with the student by stating that both the museum and the state Department ...
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ABQjournal NM: Trying to Preserve a Petrified Forest
... Bureau LAS CRUCES - The southern section of the Robledo Mountains is already acclaimed as the world's most important landscape of pre-dinosaur fossil trackways, hundreds of millions years old. But the Robledos are full of surprises, and their reputation is likely to be enhanced by another ...
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ABQjournal NM: Trying to Preserve a Petrified Forest
... Bureau LAS CRUCES - The southern section of the Robledo Mountains is already acclaimed as the world's most important landscape of pre-dinosaur fossil trackways, hundreds of millions years old. But the Robledos are full of surprises, and their reputation is likely to be enhanced by another ...
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ABQjournal North_News: Hikers Discovered Fossils
Friday, July 20, 2007 Hikers Discovered Fossils By Raam Wong Journal Staff Writer New discoveries about the rise of dinosaurs might not have been made were it not for a group of hikers looking for something to do one scorching morning in the summer of 2002. That day, members of an Elderhostel ...
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ABQjournal NM: Hikers Find Fossils at Ghost Ranch
Friday, July 20, 2007 Hikers Find Fossils at Ghost Ranch By Raam Wong Journal Staff Writer New discoveries about the rise of dinosaurs might not have been made were it not for a group of hikers looking for something to do one scorching morning in the summer of 2002. That day, members of an ...
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ABQjournal: College Seeks $12M for Wind Courses
... , is known for several unusual offerings, including farrier science and bronze sculpture programs, and one of the country's only two-year degrees in paleontology - the study of fossils and extinct organisms, such as dinosaurs. Wind curriculum The proposed North American Wind Energy Research ...
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ABQJOURNAL: Group Seeks Preservation of Ancient Footprints
... of Ancient Footprints Associated Press LAS CRUCES Some Las Cruces-area residents are pushing for protection for thousands of ancient fossil footprints discovered 15 years ago by an amateur geologist. "If the site isn't protected, our fear is it will be lost due to mining, looting ...
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ABQJOURNAL: N.M.'s Largest Crocodile Classified
Thursday, January 05, 2006 N.M.'s Largest Crocodile Classified Associated Press Unlabeled fossils a jawbone, some teeth and armored plates have been identified as those of a 30-foot-long crocodile, the largest that ever lived in prehistoric New Mexico. The fossils of the predator ...
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ABQjournal: Letters to the Editor
... to one. As a grad student 35 years ago, I was astounded to find out that there is no real evidence for Darwinism at all - not in the fossils, not in the wild and not in the lab. All my teachers had told me that evolution had occurred, but I suddenly realized that none of them had given me a ...
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ABQjournal: Grant Lets Natural History Museum Prepare Fossils
Sunday, October 5, 2003 Grant Lets Natural History Museum Prepare Fossils By Rick Nathanson Journal Staff Writer It's relatively easy to get financial support and help in the field for an archaeological dig. "It's kind of fun, you're outside and it's an adventure," said Andrew Heckert, geoscience ...
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