News articles tagged with 'specimen' (Page 4)
Computed radiography system helps uncover secrets from the past
— 7 May 2008 11:38 | Geology and palaeontologyDigital medical imaging and information technology from Carestream Health, Inc., is playing a key role in helping The Field Museum of Chicago discover and analyse secrets hidden within…
Scientists help build a global reference library of DNA barcodes
— 19 Apr 2008 18:13 | BiologyMost of us are familiar with bar codes, those small black stripes with numbers below, known as the Universal Product Code or UPC label, that appear on commercial products. We scan them…
240 million old fossil of an ichthyosaur exhibited at Tromso University Museum
— 19 Apr 2008 17:07 | Geology and palaeontologyA giant 240 million years old specimen from Svalbard of an Ichthyosauria was for the first time be displayed on the 5th of April at Tromso University Museum, Northern Norway. The ichthyosaur…
Ancient sea reptile named for Calgary scientist after being unearthed at Syncrude mine
— 20 Mar 2008 18:12 | Geology and palaeontologyOne of the oldest and most complete plesiosaur fossils recovered in North America, and the oldest yet discovered from the Cretaceous Period, represents a new genus of the prehistoric…
Monster Jurassic marine reptile discovered
— 5 Mar 2008 14:52 | Geology and palaeontologyUniversity of Alaska Museum of the North earth sciences curator Patrick Druckenmiller spent several weeks last summer working with a Norwegian research team to excavate a large pliosaur…
New bird genus discovered in the Solomon Islands
— 20 Apr 2007 00:10 | BiologyNew genera of living birds are rare discoveries - fewer than one per year is announced globally. David Steadman and Andrew Kratter, ornithologists at the Florida Museum of Natural History,…
A clearer view on biology
— 5 Mar 2007 18:12 | BiologyThe European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) has developed a new computational tool that makes images obtained with cutting-edge microscopes even sharper. The technological advance…