Cell evolution and Earth history: stasis and revolution part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This review paper synthesizes data from paleontology, comparative morphology, and molecular phylogenetics into a cohesive (if extremely controversial) model of the evolution of life on Earth. Topics ...

Hot Springs Microbes Hold Key To Dating Sedimentary Rocks, Researchers Say part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This is a ScienceDaily article about the effect of microbes on sedimentary rock formation. It covers the process of calcium carbonate crystalization, the effect of microbes on that process, and how ...

Invertebrate Paleontology Tutorial part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This web site was created to be a companion to the laboratory for SUNY College at Cortland GLY 363 - Invertebrate Paleontology. It is designed to provide the student enrolled in GLY 363 with an ...

Evolution and the Fossil Record part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This publication of the American Geological Institute is a non-technical introduction to evolution and aims to help the general public gain a better understanding of some of the fundamental ...

Collaborative learning in an upper-division university geobiology course part of SERC Print Resource Collection
The paleontology course described in this article has fully half of the lecture time devoted to group projects: reviewing original literature, engaging in debate, working with data sets and solving ...

Mass Extinction Debates: How Science Works in a Crisis part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This is a history of science project documenting a controversy as it unfolds. The controversy in question is whether the K/T extinction was caused by catastrophic volcanism or an asteroid impact. ...

On Methuselah's Trail: Living Fossils and the Great Extinctions part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This book reviews modern survivors of lineages greatly reduced by mass extinctions and discusses why those lineages got hit so much harder than others. Examples include the chambered nautilus, ...

Evolutionary Catastrophes: The Science of Mass Extinction part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This book uses the catastrophic-volcanism hypothesis to explain the K/T mass extinction, as opposed to the impact hypothesis. The author considers a mechanism for periodic catastrophic volcanism as ...

The Dinosaur Heresies: New Theories Unlocking the Mystery of the Dinosaurs and Their Extinction part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This book summarizes several different lines of evidence that indicate that dinosaurs were warm-blooded and not at all lizard-like. Several well-written and clearly illustrated chapters explain ...

Quest for the African Dinosaurs: Ancient Roots of the Modern World part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This book deals not only with dinosaurs, but describes dinosaur paleontology in modern Africa. It also describes modern African history, geology, and wildlife.