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Mr. Novacek, on the other hand, is their fossil mammal man.
The Coolest Dude Alive Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011
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Well, it turns out Mr. Novacek is only the second coolest dude alive.
The Coolest Dude Alive Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011
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At the time I thought Mr. Novacek was pretty much the coolest dude alive.
The Coolest Dude Alive Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011
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In that case, why does he rate the great office and why is he joining his colleague Mike Novacek in the Gobi come July, as he has in previous years?
The Coolest Dude Alive Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011
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At about this time last year I wrote a column on Mike Novacek, whom I believed was the American Museum of Natural History's chief dinosaur hunter, expert, velociraptor whisperer—whatever the term of art is for the big buana, the institution's primo paleontologist.
The Coolest Dude Alive Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011
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"Plesiadapiforms have long been one of the most controversial groups in mammalian phylogeny," said Michael J. Novacek, curator of paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History.
Archive 2007-01-01 2007
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"Michael was unbelievable," former teammate Jay Novacek said.
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If the past that Novacek describes is a guide to the future, global ecosystem processes will be restored some tens of thousands to a million years after our demise, and new forms of life over the ensuing millions of years will exploit the denuded planet we leave behind.
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However, from the start most bat experts had a problem with the concept: Wible & Novacek (1988) showed how numerous skeletal and soft tissue features ‘strongly support the inclusion of megabats and microchiropterans within the single order Chiroptera’ (p. 1).
We flightless primates Darren Naish 2006
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However, from the start most bat experts had a problem with the concept: Wible & Novacek (1988) showed how numerous skeletal and soft tissue features ‘strongly support the inclusion of megabats and microchiropterans within the single order Chiroptera’ (p. 1).
Archive 2006-08-01 Darren Naish 2006
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