Paleontology in the Media/Entertainment Industry

Paper Topics – Geol 360X

Paleontology in the media/entertainment industry

(1) Crichton, M. 1999. Ritual abuse, hot air, and missed opportunities. Science 283: 1461-1463.

Reconstructing Past Life: Walking with Dinosaurs

(2) Henry, G. 1999. Science in culture: Walking with Dinosaurs, a BBC television series. Nature 401(6753): 530.

Darley, A. 2003. Simulating natural history: walking with dinosaurs as hyper-real edutainment. Science as Culture 12: 227-256. (ILL)

Scott, K. and A. White 2003. Unnatural history? Deconstructing the Walking with Dinosaurs phenomena. Media, Culture, and Society 25: 315-332. (ILL)

Recovery from K/T Mass Extinction I

(3) Erwin, D. H. 1998. After the end: recovery from mass extinction. Science 279: 1324-1325.

Jablonski, D. 1998. Geographic variation in the molluscan recovery from the End-Cretaceous Extinction. Science 279:1327-1332.

Recovery from K/T Mass Extinction II

(4) D’Hondt, S., P. Donaghay, J.C. Zachos, D. Luttenberg, and M. Lindinger. 1998. Organic carbon fluxes and ecological recovery from the Cretaceous-Tertiary Mass Extinction. Science 282: 276-279.

Recovery from Triassic Mass Extinction II

(5) Kerr, R.A. 2002. Did an impact trigger the dinosaur’s rise? Science 296: 1215-1216.

Olsen, P.E., D.V. Kent, H.-D. Sues, C. Koeberl, H. Huber, A. Montanari, E.C. Rainforth, S.J. Fowell, M.J. Szajn, B.W. Hartline. 2002. Ascent of dinosaurs linked to an iridium anomaly at the Triassic-Jurassic Boundary. Science 296: 1305-1307.

Human hunting as a cause for Pleistocene Megafauna extinctions

(7) Alroy, J. 2001. A multispecies overkill simulation of the End-Pleistocene Megafauna Mass Extinction. Science 292: 1893-1896.

Grayson, D.K. 2001. Letter about the question: Did human hunting cause mass extinction? Science 294: 1459.

Alroy, J. 2001. Response to Grayson. Science 294: 1459-1460.

Slaughter, R. and J. Skulan. 2001. Letter about the question: Did human hunting cause mass extinction? Science 294: 1460-1461.

Alroy, J. 2001. Response to Slaughter and Skulan. Science 294: 1461-1462.

Human hunting as a cause for extinction of Pleistocene Megafauna in Australia

(6) Flannery, T.F. 1999. Debating extinction. Science 283: 182-183.

Miller, G.H., J.W. Magee, B.J. Johnson, M.L. Fogel, N.A. Spooner, M.T. McCulloch, and L.K. Ayliff. 1999. Pleistocene extinction of Genyornis newtoni: human impact on Australian Megafauna. Science 283: 205-208.

Roberts, R.G., T.F. Flannery, L.K. Ayliffe, H. Yoshida, J.M. Olley, G.J. Prideaux, G.M. Laslett, A. Baynes, M.A. Smith, R. Jones, B.L. Smith. 2001. New ages for the last Australian Megafauna: continent-wide extinction about 46,000 years ago. Science 292: 1888-1892.

Transitional Fossils in the Fossil Record

(8) Enserink, M. 1999. Fossil opens window on early animal history. Science 286: 1829.

Enserink, M. 2002. “Fantastic” fossil helps narrow data gap. Science 296: 637-639.

Moffat, A.S. 2002. New fossil and a glimpse of evolution. Science 295: 613-615.

Paleobiogeography : Amphibians of the Early Tertiary

(9) Bossuyt, F. and M.C. Milinkovitch. 2001. Amphibians as indicators of Early Tertiary “Out-of-India” dispersal of vertebrates. Science 292: 93-95.

Paleobiogeography : Mammals in the Early Cenozoic

(10) Beard, C. 2002. East of Eden at the Paleocene/Eocene Boundary. Science 295: 2028-2029.

Bowen, G.J., W.C. Clyde, P.L. Koch, S. Ting, J. Alroy, T. Tsubamoto, Y. Wang, Y. Wang. Mammalian dispersal across the Paleocene/Eocene Boundary. Science 295: 2062-2065.

Politics and Fossil Collecting: Kenya

(11) Balter, M. 2001. Paleontological rift in the Rift Valley. Science 292: 198-201.

Politics and Fossil Collecting: Utah

(12) Stokstad, E. 2001. Utah’s fossil trove beckons, and tests, researchers. Science 294: 41-43.

Politics and Fossil Collecting: China

(13) Malakoff, D. 2002. Tug-of-war over mystery fossil. Science 295: 1212-1213.

Normile, D. 2001. Internal fights, looting hinder work in the field. Science 291: 239-241.

Lei, X. 2001. Fruitful collaborations follow a two-way street. Science 291: 241.

Defining Mass Extinctions

(14) Kerr, R.A. 2001. Mass extinctions face downsizing, extinction. Science 293: 1037.

Kerr, R.A. 2001. Paring down the Big Five mass extinction. Science 294: 2072-2073.

Imaging Technology in Paleontology

(15) Stokstad, E. 2001. Paleontologists learn to shake up virtual bones. Science 291: 1475-1476.

Balter, M. 2001. New fossil may change idea of first mollusk. Science 291: 2292-2293.

Quality of the Fossil Record

(16) Smith, A.B. 2003. Making the best of a patchy fossil record. Science 301: 321-322.

Crampton, J.S., A.G. Beu, R.A. Cooper, C.M. Jones, B. Marshal, P.A. Maxwell. 2003. Estimating the rock volume bias in paleobiodiversity studies. Science 301: 358-360.

Measuring Biodiversity in the Past

(17) Kerr, R.A. 2001. Putting limits on the diversity of life. Science 292: 1481.

Jackson, J.B.C. and K.G. Johnson. 2001. Measuring past biodiversity. Science 293: 2401-2404.

Biological Conservation and Paleontology: Predator-Prey Dynamics

(18) Berger, J., J.E. Swenson, I.L. Persson. 2001. Recolonizing carnivores and naïve prey: conservation lessons from the Pleistocene extinctions. Science 291: 1036-1039.

MacPhee, R.D.E. and C. Flemming. 2001. Extinction: complexity of assessing risk. Science 292: 217.

Gittleman, J.L., M.E. Gomprer, K.E. Jones. 2001. Response to MacPhee and Flemming. Science 292: 217-218.

Biological Conservation and Paleontology: The Silence of the Clams

(19) Muro, M. 2000. Colorado river clams provide benchmark. Science 290: 2045-2046.

Kowalewski, M., G.E. Avila Serrano, K.W. Flessa, G.A. Goodfriend. 2000. Dead delta’s former productivity: two trillion shells at the mouth of the Colorado River. Geology 28: 1059-1062.

Exobiology and the Origin of Life

(20) Kerr, R.A. 2002. Reversal reveal pitfalls in spotting ancient and E.T. life. Science 296: 1384-1385.

Fedo, C.M. and M.J. Whitehouse. 2002. Metasomatic origin of quartz-pyroxene rock, Akilia, Greenland, and implications for Earth’s earliest life. Science 296: 1448-1452.

Information Technology and Biodiversity

(21) Kaiser, J. New survey to collect global news you can use. Science 289: 1676-1677.

Global Warming and Climate Change: Tree Ring Data

(22) Kerr, R.A. 2001. It’s official: humans are behind most of global warming. Science 291: 566.

Briffa, K.R. and T.J. Osborn. 2002. Blowing hot and cold. Science 295: 2227-2228.

Esper, J., E.R. Cook, and F.H. Schweingruber. 2002. Low-frequency signals in long tree-ring chronologies for reconstructing past temperature variability. Science 295: 2250-2253.

Global Warming and Climate Change: Correlation of Data from Different Sources

(23) Kerr, R.A. 2001. Rising global temperature, rising uncertainty. Science 292: 192-193.

Levitus, S., J.I. Antonov, J. Wang, T.L. Delworth, K.W. Dixon, A.J. Broccoli. 2001. Anthropogenic warming of Earth’s climate system. Science 292: 267-270.

Barnett, T.P., D.W. Pierce, and R. Schnur. 2001. Detection of anthropogenic climate change in the world’s ocean. Science 292: 270-274.

Permo-Triassic Extinction

(24) (Kerr, R.A. 2000. Paleontology: biggest extinction hit land and sea. Science 289: 1666-1667.)

(Martin, R.E., G.J. Vermeij, D. Dorritie, K. Caldeira, M.R. Rampino, A.H. Knoll, R.K. Bambach, D. Canfield, J.P. Grotzinger, P.B. Wignal and R.J. Twichett. Late Permian Extinctions. Science 274: 1549-1552.)

(Knoll, A.H., R.K. Bambach, D.E. Canfield and J.P. Grotzinger. 1996. Comparative Earth history and the Later Permian Mass Extinction. Science 273: 452-457.

Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction

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(Kerr, R.A. 2001. Paleontology: whiff of gas points to impact mass extinction. Science 291: 1469-1470.)

(Kerr, R.A. 1996. Extinctions: A shocking view of the Permo-Triassic. Science 274: 1080.)

(Kerr, R.A. 1995. Another killer charged with mass extinction. Science 270: 1441-1442.)