topic: dinosaurs fossil paleontology

... 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 ...
full story 03/09/08

... 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 ...
full story 09/22/07

... 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 ...
full story 09/22/07

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 ...
full story 07/20/07

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 ...
full story 07/20/07

... , 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 ...
full story 01/17/07

Sunday, August 20, 2006 Treasure Trove of Precious Fossils Caught Between Scientific and Commercial Interests By Rene Romo Journal Southern Bureau     LAS CRUCES - More than a decade ago, the southern Robledo Mountains six miles northwest of this city were proclaimed the world's greatest repository ...
full story 08/19/06

Wednesday, May 17, 2006 Students on a Recent Field Trip Were Encouraged to Touch Dinosaur Bones By Emily Van Cleve For the Journal     It was hard for two dozen students who attend The Family Partnership School in Las Vegas, N.M., to keep their hands to themselves when they walked through Dinosaurs ...
full story 05/17/06

Tuesday, March 28, 2006 Group Pushes to Protect Site; Fossils Found In Robledo Mountains The 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 ...
full story 03/28/06

... 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 ...
full story 03/27/06

Saturday, February 4, 2006 Evidence Indicates That Birds Descended From Dinosaurs By John Fleck Journal Staff Writer     The Jurassic wishbone - the oldest wishbone known to science - doesn't look like much. You have to lean in close over Larry Rinehart's block of rock to see it, protruding ...
full story 02/04/06

Saturday, February 4, 2006 Evidence Indicates That Birds Descended From Dinosaurs By John Fleck Journal Staff Writer     The Jurassic wishbone - the oldest wishbone known to science - doesn't look like much. You have to lean in close over Larry Rinehart's block of rock to see it, protruding ...
full story 02/04/06

Friday, January 13, 2006 Bones May Show That Dinosaurs Lived After Cataclysmic Meteor Strike By John Fleck Journal Staff Writer     "Paleocene dinosaur" is, by definition, something of an oxymoron.     "Paleocene" is geologists' word for the epoch in Earth history that began 65 million years ago ...
full story 01/13/06

... 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 ...
full story 12/30/05

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 ...
full story 10/04/03