Fossil and Archaeology News Archives Page 1

Virtual smash-ups show teenaged dome-skulled dinos could knock heads (4/4/2008)

Researcher has confirmed that dome-headed dinosaurs called pachycephalosaurs could collide with each other during courtship combat ...> Full Article

Were Assyrian rulers the forefathers of today's CEOs? (4/3/2008)

Assyrians knew value of location ...> Full Article

Scientists discover 356 animal inclusions trapped in 100 million years old opaque amber (4/2/2008)

Paleontologists have found the presence of 356 animal inclusions in completely opaque amber from mid-Cretaceous sites of Charentes (France). The team used the X-rays of the European light source to image two kilogrammes of the fossil tree resin with a technique that allows rapid survey of large amounts of opaque amber. At present this is the only way to discover inclusions in fully opaque amber. ...> Full Article

Neandertal's prehistoric diet may have lacked a crucial element (4/1/2008)

One of the most mysterious creatures that ever walked the earth was Neandertal, a prehistoric human-like being who first appeared about 230,000 years ago in Europe. Scientists have been debating since the first remains were found in 1856: Was he one of us or a separate species? ...> Full Article

Researchers find oldest European human fossil (3/31/2008)

Scientists classify fossil as last known ancestor of humans and Neanderthals ...> Full Article

Primitive Mouse-Like Creature May Be Ancestral Mother Of Australia's Unusual Pouched Mammals (3/30/2008)

They are separated by a vast ocean and by millions of years, but tiny prehistoric bones found on an Australian farm have been directly linked to a strange and secretive little animal that lives today in the southern rainforests of South America. ...> Full Article

Corn's deep roots (3/29/2008)

Earliest signs of maize as staple food found after spreading south from Mexican homeland ...> Full Article

International radiocarbon dating experts revisit the Turin Shroud (3/28/2008)

Researchers re-examine turin shroud in attempt to correct for possible carbon-dating problems ...> Full Article

Team determines gender of science center's mummy (3/27/2008)

research team recently helped the Louisville Science Center learn more about an old friend - a 2,600-year-old friend. ...> Full Article

New Evidence of How Fish Evolved to Walk on Land (3/26/2008)

professor of biology and anatomy and internationally renowned paleontologist, will deliver a free public lecture at the University of Utah on his discovery of a fossil that has been dubbed the "missing link" between fish and land animals ...> Full Article

Research Shows Earth's Earliest Animal Ecosystem Was Complex and Included Sexual Reproduction (3/25/2008)

Paleontologist makes discovery using fossils excavated in South Australian outback ...> Full Article

Researcher Settles Debate Over Early Human Origins: Fossils Show Upright Walking as Early as Six Million Years Ago (3/24/2008)

Researchers have discovered that humans' early ancestors were adapted to walking upright on two legs almost six million years ago, settling scientific debate over fossils discovered in 2000. This finding shows that the fossils belong to very early human ancestors and that upright walking is one of the first human characteristics to appear in our lineage, just after the split between human and chimpanzee lineages ...> Full Article

Ancient reptile rises from Alberta oil sands (3/23/2008)

Dinosaur-era sea creature named for Calgary scientist after being unearthed at Syncrude mine ...> Full Article

Cause Of Death Of Russian Baby Mammoth Discovered (3/23/2008)

On September 27, 2004, the front part of a baby mammoth's body was found in Olchan mine in the Oimyakon Region of Yakutia. Specialists of the Museum of Mammoth of the Institute of Applied Ecology of the North, Academy of Sciences of Sakha Republic (Yakutia), have been thoroughly studying the finding and they have published the first outcomes. ...> Full Article

Floating a big idea (3/22/2008)

Researcher demonstrates pre-Columbian use of rafts to transport goods ...> Full Article

Scientists Say Early Americans Arrived Earlier (3/21/2008)

Anthropologists now believes the first Americans came to this country 1,000 to 2,000 years earlier than the 13,500 years ago previously thought, which could shift historic timelines. ...> Full Article

Good Luck Indeed: 53 Million-year-old Rabbit's Foot Bones Found (3/20/2008)

Oldest rabbit fossils found so far ...> Full Article

Lemur's Little Finger Poses a Mystery (3/20/2008)

Analysis of the first hand bones belonging to an ancient lemur has revealed a mysterious joint structure that has scientists puzzled. ...> Full Article

Anthropology Research Team Finds That 'Hobbit' Fossil Evidence Is Linked To Human Evolution (3/20/2008)

New Methods To Study and Compare Skull Shapes Illustrate Evolution is Not a Linear Path ...> Full Article

First 'rule' of evolution suggests that life is destined to become more complex (3/19/2008)

Scientists have revealed what may well be the first pervasive 'rule' of evolution. ...> Full Article

Natural Selection and the Human Skull (3/19/2008)

New research adds to the evidence that chance, rather than natural selection, best explains why the skulls of modern humans and ancient Neanderthals evolved differently. The findings may alter how anthropologists think about human evolution. ...> Full Article

Clovis-age overkill didn't take out California's flightless sea duck (3/18/2008)

Scientists cite radiocarbon dating of bones at coastal archaeological sites ...> Full Article

Death creates life (3/16/2008)

In prehistoric times, the Earth was hit by a hailstorm of meteorites with a belt of dust that subsequently covered the planet. But instead of killing all life on Earth, the exact opposite occurred. Biological diversity increased in the wake of all these meteorite impacts, shows new research ...> Full Article

Evidence of Ice Age hunters found below North Sea (3/15/2008)

An amazing collection of 28 flint hand-axes, dated by archaeologists to be around 100,000 years-old, have been unearthed in gravel from a licensed marine aggregate dredging area 13km off Great Yarmouth. ...> Full Article

Classics professor exploring a 'lost' city of the Mycenaeans (3/14/2008)

Along an isolated, rocky stretch of Greek shoreline, a Florida State University researcher and his students are unlocking the secrets of a partially submerged, "lost" harbor town believed to have been built by the ancient Mycenaeans nearly 3,500 years ago. ...> Full Article

Bone Detective Digs His Work (3/13/2008)

Archaeologists and historians have assembled to solve this ancient murder mystery. ...> Full Article

Miocene Fossil Discovered by New Mexico Tech Geologists (3/12/2008)

Geologists discover new fossil embedded in a rock face. ...> Full Article

Domestication of the donkey (3/12/2008)

Researchers have found evidence for the earliest transport use of the donkey and the early phases of donkey domestication ...> Full Article

Micronesian Islands colonized by small-bodied humans (3/11/2008)

Fossils of small-bodied humans from the Micronesian island of Palau inhabited the island between 1400 and 3000 years ago and share some – although not all – features with the H. floresiensis specimens ...> Full Article

A fossilized giant rhino bone questions the isolation of Anatolia, 25 million years ago (3/11/2008)

Contrary to generally accepted belief, Anatolia was not geographically isolated 25 million years ago ...> Full Article