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The Tracy Hall dinosaur is coming to life! Photo credit: Camryn Johnson

Not-so-Signpost: A Jurassic reality

Jennifer Greenlee March 31, 2022

After nearly three decades of work, three scientists in Tracy Hall celebrated the success of a passion project that began in the back of a movie theater.“Everyone kept telling us it couldn’t...

Author Brian Switek held up the skull of a hyena and asked the attendees to identify the unique features.  (Kelly Watkins / The Signpost)

‘Cats get a peek into ‘The Secret Life of Bone’

Ashlynd Greenwood March 29, 2019

The Weber State University community was invited to learn about their evolutionary origins on March 28 with the 206 bones of Brian Switek. Switek is the author of several critically acclaimed books about...

Pāhoehoe and Aa flows at Hawaii provide a small-scale model of the kind of massive floods associated with exponentially larger, more violent eruptions that would have led to cataclysmic changes in the environment that wiped out the majority of life on Earth. (Source: Wikimedia Commons)

I think I remember the end of the world

Cole Eckhardt March 2, 2017

I spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about the apocalypse, and I'm starting to think it's genetic. Humans have been imagining creative renditions of the end of the world for thousands of years. Christianity,...

Science Weekly: Fossil pushes reset on evolutionary timeline

September 29, 2014

  Shuhai Xiao, a geobiologist from Virginia Tech worked with collaborators from the Chinese Academy of Sciences to help determine how, why and when multi-celled organisms evolved from their single-celled...

Students can get discounts with Weber State ID

August 19, 2014

One of the first things new students at Weber State do is get their Wildcat ID. This card not only gives access to many services on campus but in the community as well. Flowrider  It’s no secret...

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