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Dinosaur Fossil Found With Preserved Soft Tissue 248

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday December 03, 2007 @12:23PM from the begun-the-clone-wars-have dept.

damn_registrars writes "A fossilized hadrosaur has been uncovered in South Dakota that has preserved soft tissue. This is described as a "mummified" dinosaur, and allows for a look at the skin and musculature of some parts of this animal. The find was reported by a 24 year old Yale graduate student of paleontology."

Journal Journal: Nimble chimps outscore college students on memory test

Journal by arbitraryaardvark on Monday December 03, 2007 @12:13PM

AP's Malcolm Ritter reports that young chimpanzees were better at remembering a series of numbers flashed on a screen, than the Japanese college students used as a control group. Scientists plan to repeat the experiment using 5th graders against the great apes.

Journal SPAM: Special Counsel Removes Potential Evidence with "DoD-Wipe"

Journal by Jeremiah Cornelius on Saturday December 01, 2007 @04:40AM

A U.S. official overseeing a probe of former Bush aide Karl Rove yesterday refused to give federal investigators copies of "personal files" he deleted from his office computer, after it was discovered he hired a private computer-help company to erase all the hard drives belonging to him and two deputies. Special Counsel Scott J. Bloch hired a firm to perform a D

Comment Re:first "who is 'Cmdr_Taco'?" (Score 1) 386

by sinth on Tuesday November 20, 2007 @04:17PM (#21425681) Attached to: US Senators Take On The ESRB Over Manhunt 2

Rob Malda, also known as CmdrTaco, is the founder of the website Slashdot. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Malda/

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