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500-million-year-old fossils create economic development opportunities

09 June 2011
Posted by Ian Chadwick in Science, Social values
This intriguing story is from a media release from the Newfoundland and Labrador Department of Innovation, Trade and Rural Development, posted on the Municipal Information Network. Exciting stuff when a government recognizes the importance of fossils, evolution and science, and helps promote them to the public.

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Giant spider fossil found in Mongolia

20 April 2011
Posted by Ian Chadwick in Science
I developed an appreciation of spiders around age 10. I came down with one of those childhood diseases - chicken pox, mumps, or measles, I forget which now - and spent a week in bed. I was a voracious reader even then, but I had only one unread book on hand, a library title taken out for some school project. It was Jean Henri Fabre's 1912...

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