Thursday, September 5, 2013

The New Evolution of Dinosaurs

The New Evolution of Dinosaurs
New Trail
Autumn 2013

Work by researchers based at the U of A has challenged many basic assumptions about dinosaurs while greatly expanding the number of known species

On an afternoon in May, drivers zip down Anthony Henday Drive in Edmonton and children race home from school, all unaware that, in a wooded creek bed just a few hundred metres away, U of A paleontologists and about a dozen students are busy unearthing treasures buried nearly 73 million years ago.

This site, just a few minutes’ drive from campus and not far from the Century Park LRT station, is one of the university’s best-kept secrets: a graveyard containing the remains of at least a dozen dinosaurs.

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Dinosaur Hunters

Meet four researchers at the U of A who are changing the way we think about dinosaurs

Unearthing a Pack of Albertosaurus

When Phil Currie floated down the Red Deer River in the summer of 1996, he wasn’t intending to change our very ideas about the makeup of dinosaur social networks. He was just on the trail of a good mystery.

His research in the archives at the American Museum of Natural History in New York had turned up important evidence from a 1910 field expedition in southern Alberta led by the famous bone collector Barnum Brown. On that one outing, Brown had uncovered a bonebed with bones from nine different Albertosaurus, a type of tyrannosaur, making it one of the biggest finds in paleontological history.

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Sunday, September 1, 2013

Question Period with Natasha Staniszewki


Question Period with Natasha Staniszewski
New Trail
Autumn 2013

The TSN anchor and reporter talks about on-air goofs, locker-room interviews and being a woman in a male-dominated field

You started your career in business. What made you switch to broadcasting?

When I was in high school, I had always thought about sports broadcasting, but at the time it seemed like such a crazy thing to try. There weren’t a lot of women
in it. Then one day I was in Calgary at a work conference and I was sitting
in the lobby — unhappy to be at the conference — and I was watching a sports channel. There was a female anchor on, and I thought, “Why don’t I try that? If she’s doing it, why can’t I?”

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