A closetful of bones.A closetful of bones For spring cleaning Spring cleaning is the period in spring time set aside for cleaning a house, normally applied in colder climates, where the house is difficult to clean during winter. this year at the University of Oklahomain Norman, paleontologists did more than just dust off Late Jurassic jawbones. A search through the storage areas of the university's Stovall Museum revealed some surprises, including the tiny arm bones of a brontosaurus Brontosaurus: see Apatosaurus. hatchling. This is only the second set of hatchling bones known to exist. Unearthed Unearthed is the name of a Triple J project to find and "dig up" (hence the name) hidden talent in regional Australia. Unearthed has had three incarnations - they first visited each region of Australia where Triple J had a transmitter - 41 regions in all. during a Works Progress Administration Works Progress Administration: see Work Projects Administration. projectin the 1930s, these and other bones were stored at the university but had never been closely examined due to lack of sufficient funds and staff. The two arm bones, which appear to be from the sameanimal, indicate that the hatchling would have been 8 to 10 feet long, says Oklahoma's Kenneth Carpenter. He dates the bones to 140 million years ago. Carpenter hopes that more bones from this animal are storedsomewhere in the "literally hundreds of boxes full of bones" that have yet to be examined. The hatchling remains will aid in determining the growth rates Growth Rates The compounded annualized rate of growth of a company's revenues, earnings, dividends, or other figures. Notes: Remember, historically high growth rates don't always mean a high rate of growth looking into the future. and appearance of the baby brontosauruses, which reached an adult length of 70 feet, says Carpenter. |
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