Darwin and Of the Sword: Two parallel lives

Next March 9 it goes to inaugurate the exhibition Darwin and Of the Sword: two parallel lives in the House of the Sciences of Logronio. It will be possible to visit until June 27. We enclose to you the information that is in the explanatory leaflet:
The XIXth century was undoubtedly a century of changes. Big discoveries, important inventions, theories that changed the course of the Science. It was the century that saw being born the English naturalist Charles Darwin and the Spanish expedition member Marcos Jiménez of the Sword, member of the Scientific Commission of the Pacific Ocean. This exhibition not only narrates the life and work of these two big scientists, explained of didactic and easily understandable form. The origin of the species, the fossil, anatomical, embryonic and biogeographical evidences, the mutations, the natural selection and the especiación are some of the paragraphs of the sample. Produced by the Museum of the Science and Water of Murcia it is provided with terraria with living animals; fossils; arthropods collections; skeletons and interactive modules.

XI International congress on Geologic Patrimony

It goes to celebrate in Huelva XI International Congress on Geologic and Mining Patrimony. XV Scientific Meeting of SEDPGYM. from September 22 until September 26, 2010, coinciding with the 15th Anniversary of the foundation of the above mentioned Society.

From the year 1994, the Spanish Society for the Defense of the Geologic Patrimony and Miner (SEDPGYM), across the collaboration of his associates, organization of Congresses, publications and participation in diverse events, has showing his worry and interest in the preservation of the geologic and mining patrimony. The frame where the Congress will develop is provided with a wide mining tradition that goes back to the prehistoric times and continues up to the present, and that has been crucial for the economic and sociocultural development of the province of Huelva.

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Munibe in version "online"

There has come to us information of the availability of the Magazine Munibe in version "online". We enclose it to you.
Since probably you all / expert know, the magazine MUNIBE Antropologia-Arkeologia that the Society of Sciences Aranzadi edits for more than sixty years is free in his digital version. Since he wants that the visibility of the linkage to the articles was turning out to be deficient, the magazine has now a direct entry from the principal Aranzadi page.
With a period of sequestration of nine months from the edition in role, until the articles are hung, you have at your disposition all the PDF of the magazine and a comfortable engine of search that will allow you to come easily to any article. The same way you have earnings to the general information about the magazine and his norms of edition. Streaming NCIS S07E18 Jurisdiction online

The snakes of the Cretaceous Superior were eating up the newly bulging saurópodos of the eggs

The magazine PlosOne has just be published by a fascinating work that reflects a moment of the life of the snakes of the end of the Cretaceous one in the India. The investigation led by Jeff Wilson describes the association between a skeleton of a new snake that there have named Sanajeh indicus and eggs of saurópodos titanosaurios. This cretaceous snake did not have the complex joints system developed in the skull that allows them his modern congeners to swallow eggs or animals much major than she. The interpretation of this exceptional deposit is clear, we have a test that Sanajeh was a type of snake that was feeding on the newly bulging indidividuos titanosaurios of the egg.
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The extinction of the dinosaurs and the crater of Chicxulub

The prestigious North American magazine Science has just be published by an article where he sums all the knowledge up on the Cretaceous limit – Paleógeno (Cretaceous – Tertiary) and his relation with the crater of Chicxulub (Mexico). It is a multidisciplinary work in which there have taken part three members of the area of Paleontology of Saragossa (Laia Alegre, Ignacio Arenillas, José Antonio Arz). His conclusions are clear: the Chicxulub crater is the one that Paleógeno produced to himself for the fall of a big extraterrestrial object in the Cretaceous limit–. The effects associated with this impact are the massive cause of many organisms, including the dinosaurs.
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Seminar on the Human Evolution in the Mediterranean

Our friends of the Association Paleontológica Alcoyana Isurus are that they do not stop. They have just offered the most interesting titled Paleontology seminar "human Evolution in the Mediterranean. The phenomenon Atapuerca". There will be the 15th and 16th of May, 1010 in Cemacam Font-Roja-Alcoi (Alicante, Spain). It is going to be given by José Maria Bermúdez de Castro, the director of the National Center of Investigation on the Human Evolution and codirector of the Project Atapuerca. Between the topics that it is going to develop: The beginning of a lineage (Africa: our hearth), children of the Earth, the origin of homo, the brain began to grow and much more...

Three new natural monuments in Andalusia

From the Network of Natural Spaces of Andalusia there has come to us information about three new natural monuments. We enclose it to you next:
The Council of Andalusian Government has approved the declaration of the monumentosnaturales of Ambrosio's Cave, in Vélez-Blanco; the Cap of Gossan, in Nerva; and the Forest of the Bañizuela, in Torredelcampo. Ambrosio's Cave, he has declared himself for his character ecocultural. It is a delimited surface of 114.967 square meters of cavities kársticas opened on a shelf hundred meters high in the head of the creek of the Mulberry tree. it lodges one of the principal paleolithic deposits of the Iberian Peninsula, with declared declarations of rock art Patrimony of the Humanity and the same way protected by the autonomic cultural legislation with the category of archaeological area.
The Cap of Gossan, placed inside the Protected Scenery Stained Rio, is an enclave that he emphasizes for his geologic singularity and for his didactic value to understand the deposits of typical sulfides of this from Huelva region. Partially protégée as Good of Cultural Interest inside the Historical Place of the Mining Area of Riotinto-Huelva, it is a question of a geologic formation of gossan (rock formed by oxides and hydroxides of iron) and you wash gossanizadas proceeding from the meteorización of next deposits. For his declaration as natural monument a 9.329 square meters surface has been delimited.
The Forest of the Bañizuela, protected by his special biological singularity and social evaluation, receives in his little more than two hectares a finished representation of the Mediterranean forest ecosystem esclerófilo of holm oaks and cork oaks.

The cold steppe was occupying the south of France 70.000 years ago

The prestigious magazine Journal of Archaeological Science an interesting work has just published on the deposit of Bois Roche placed in the Charente, close to the city of Cognac, region that is to the north of the area of vineyards of Bordeaux (Bordeaux). It is an investigation led by Paola Villa of the University of Colorado (USA) and Bordeaux (France) in which Gloria Cuenca and Juan Carlos García have informed our aragosaureros. It is a question of the study of a lair of hyenas of the top Pleistocene that demonstrates how the cold steppe that it occupies the north of France came up to the south of France 70.000 years ago.
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Dinosaurs of the Gobi in Alcobendas

From March 17, 2010 until January 16, 2011 the sample goes to exhibit Dinosaurs of the Gobi in the Cosmocaixa of Madrid in Alcobendas. The schedule that is going to go is from Tuesday until Sunday of 10 to 2nd hours. This this Cosmocaixa in the C / Painter Velázquez de Albobendas. We enclose some information about the exhibition to you. It has a magnificent face.
The big number of finished skeletons and the extensive variety of the fossils discovered in the desert of Gobi is only. Up to the most delicate skeletons they have been found in the very good conservation state. Probably they were assaulted by a sudden thunderstorm of sand that in a few moments covered them completely, allowing this way a perfect conservation. The gigantic cemetery of dinosaurs discovered to beginnings of the 20s in the fantastic lunar scenery of the desert of Gobi is still considered between the most famous places paleontológicos of the world. The incessant interest in the paleontology perhaps let's must relate it to the increasing attention for the environmental situation of our planet. The recognized big extinction of the dinosaurs, happened long before the appearance of the human being, perhaps serves to us as reminder of the fragility of the balances in the life of the nature.
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On the paleoherpetofauna of the Pleistocene of Spain

There has just be published in the last number of the magazine Treballs del Museu of Geology of Barcelona (16, 2009) an abridged version of the doctoral thesis that Hugo Blain read in 2005 in Paris our aragosaurero. In his thesis I study the fossil remains of the amphibians and scaly ones of more than 30 localities plio-pleistocenas of Spain: in particular 40.000 remains of herpetos of the opinion poll of the deposit of Gran Dolina (Atapuerca) and also the remains proceeding from the Cuenca of Guadix-Baza (Ravine León and New Source 3). The court of thesis under the presidency of the Teacher Henry de Lumley was composed by Gloria Cuenca-Bescós, Jordi Agustí, Jean-Claude Rage and Salvador Bailon.
BLAIN, H.-A. Contribution of the paleoherpetofauna (Amphibia and Squamata) to the knowledge of the evolution of the climate and of the scenery of the Pliocene superior to the average Pleistocene of Spain.
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