World turned upside-down

Workers with the Paleo Division of New Mexico State Resources recently uncovered a fossil that sent shock waves through the scientific community and that will require the re-writing of textbooks on paleontology, evolution, and the history of life.

Working in the 140 million-year-old Morrison Formation the team discovered a skull and partial skeleton of the dinosaur Allosaurus with a fossil hominid trapped between its gaping jaws.

Of course, this find is evidence that humans and dinosaurs did in fact live at the same time, and it casts doubt on many other aspects of evolution, which of course, is only a theory, anyway. The discovery was announced by Lirpa Loof, which should explain any remaining confusion on the significance of the event.

The full story is at http://www.nmsr.org/Archive.html

Explanation at http://www.nmsr.org/april_fool.html

New Mexicans for Science and Reason http://www.nmsr.org/

My favorite e-mail request

My office door is my placard, my protest sign, my refrigerator-door-away-from-home. I try to be selective in choosing what is posted on my office door, because of the limited space, so I am especially fond of this brief item, which originated as a post to a paleontology listserve. It's so utterly delightful in its incomprehensibility, yet I know personally several folks who understand exactly what this person is asking:

To the amphibiophiles on this list,

Is anybody of you aware of published descriptions and/or figures of the epipterygoid bone in rhinesuchid, lydekkerinid or wetlugasaurid temnospondyls?

Any reference is highly appreciated.

Oh, my spellchecker did not like that request, at all!