Tuesday, December 18, 2007

SMU paleontological team searches for Antarctic fossils

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Southern Methodist University Professor Louis Jacobs, dinosaur hunter and long-time friend and patron of the Dallas Paleontological Society, is spending some quality time this December with a couple of his graduate students down south. We're talking WAY down south, as in Antarctica.

Jacobs, along with doctoral student Yosuke Nishida and masters student Chris Strganac, are part of the Antarctic Vertebrate Paleontological Expedition, version Austral Summer 2007. Yes, it's Summer currently in Antarctica, but that just means the ice and snow thins out a bit - hopefully enough to expose the bare strata on Livingston Island, where the team hopes to find 120 million-year-old mammalian fossils and construct an evidentiary link between those ancient creatures and fossil mammals found in South America, Africa and Australia.

So far their searches have come up fossil mammal-free, though they are still looking: you can follow the expedition's progress by reading the updates posted by Chris to this page.

Here's wishing the intrepid explorers luck for finding ice-free conditions on the Antarctic Peninsula's leeward shore.

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