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Chris Lowery
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Micropaleontologist
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Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
February 4, 2026 at 6:43 AM
And how!
January 21, 2026 at 10:59 PM
GSA wrote a press release about it: www.geosociety.org/GSA/News/pr/...
GSA News Release 26-04
Scientists Find Extremely Rapid Evolution of New Species After the End-Cretaceous Mass Extinction
www.geosociety.org
January 21, 2026 at 6:44 PM
Also in news that's mostly interesting to me and other people who study the K/Pg boundary: we found that P0, the first foram biozone of the Cenozoic, was only 6,400 years long.

(Attn: whoever is writing the Paleogene chapter of the next version of the Geologic Timescale)
January 21, 2026 at 6:29 PM