http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Smithsonian researchers working in Colombia's Cerrejón coal mine have unearthed the first megafossil evidence of a neotropical rainforest. Titanoboa, the world's biggest snake, lived in this forest 58 million years ago at temperatures 3-5 C warmer than in rainforests today, indicating that rainforests flourished during warm periods. http://www.physorg.com/news174580793.html Other Sciences Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:04:39 EST news174580793 Rushing to salvage fossils from the Panama Canal earthworks, Aldo Rincon, paleontology intern at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, unearthed a set of fossil teeth. Bruce J. MacFadden, curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida in Gainesville, describes the fossil as Anchitherium clarencei, a three-toed browsing horse, in the May 2009 issue of the Journal of Paleontology. http://www.physorg.com/news163677222.html Other Sciences Mon, 08 Jun 2009 10:54:04 EST news163677222 A detailed analysis of the feet of Homo floresiensis -the miniature hominins who lived on a remote island in eastern Indonesia until 18,000 years ago -- may help settle a question hotly debated among paleontologists: how similar was this population to modern humans? A new research paper, featured on the cover of the current issue of Nature, may answer this question. While the so-called "hobbits" walked on two legs, several features of their feet were so primitive that their gait was not efficient. http://www.physorg.com/news160834618.html Other Sciences Wed, 06 May 2009 13:17:29 EST news160834618 During a seminar at another institution several years ago, University of Chicago paleontologist David Jablonski fielded a hostile question: Why bother classifying organisms according to their physical appearance, let alone analyze their evolutionary dynamics, when molecular techniques had already invalidated that approach? http://www.physorg.com/news160157479.html Other Sciences Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:11:43 EST news160157479 A limestone countertop, a practiced eye and Google Earth all played roles in the discovery of a trove of fossils that may shed light on the origins of African wildlife. http://www.physorg.com/news160157349.html Other Sciences Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:09:49 EST news160157349 A herd of young birdlike dinosaurs met their death on the muddy margins of a lake some 90 million years ago, according to a team of Chinese and American paleontologists that excavated the site in the Gobi Desert in western Inner Mongolia. http://www.physorg.com/news156406540.html Other Sciences Mon, 16 Mar 2009 07:16:49 EST news156406540 A new University of Florida study could help resolve a long-standing debate in shark paleontology: From which line of species did the modern great white shark evolve? http://www.physorg.com/news156097789.html Other Sciences Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:33:24 EST news156097789