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Fossil and Archaeology News - August 2008 Archives
 | Researchers discover first prehistoric pregnant turtle and nest of eggs in southern Alberta ...> Full Article |
Size and scale of the settlements in the southern Amazon in North Central Brazil means that what many scientists have considered virgin tropical forests are in fact heavily influenced by historic human activity
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 | Skeletal and dental expert helps rebut recent widely publicized claims ...> Full Article |
 | Research by UK and American scientists has struck another blow to the theory that Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) became extinct because they were less intelligent than our ancestors (Homo sapiens) ...> Full Article |
 | A team of archaeologists have saved a Bronze Age building on Shetland from destruction by the sea... by moving it brick by brick to a safe new location. ...> Full Article |
 | Researcher has advanced the investigation of the diet of early human ancestors by painstakingly measuring the mechanical properties of the underground parts of nearly 100 plant species across sub-Saharan Africa. ...> Full Article |
 | A famous Neolithic Iceman is dressed in clothes made from sheep and cattle hair ...> Full Article |
 | The largest Stone Age graveyard found in the Sahara, which provides an unparalleled record of life when the region was green, has been discovered in Niger ...> Full Article |
 | Archaeologists have discovered two rare Roman stone sarcophagi. ...> Full Article |
 | Archaeologist develop automated system for organizing thousands of pieces of ancient artwork. ...> Full Article |
 | Scientists shed new light on the role that our ancestors played in the extinction of Australia's prehistoric animals. ...> Full Article |
 | Findings show signs of mixed city of Jews, pagans and Christians ...> Full Article |
 | Modern computing to help archaeologists understand ancient knowledge transfer and how it will help future computational systems ...> Full Article |
 | Duck-billed dinosaurs, once so common that they're called the "cows of the Cretaceous," grew three to five times faster than their predators. ...> Full Article |
 | Humans were processing cattle milk in pottery vessels more than two thousand years earlier than previously thought ...> Full Article |
Site contains over 4000 carved blocks scattered over several dozen hectares
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Freeze-dried terrestrial vegetation and insects help to reveal the ecological legacy of a unique global climate transition
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 | Using sophisticated computer modelling techniques they have also calculated that the bite force of the great white's extinct relative, the gigantic fossil species Carcharodon megalodon (also known as Big Tooth) is the highest of all time, making it arguably the most formidable carnivore ever to have existed. ...> Full Article |
 | Tiny fossilized teeth excavated from an Indian open-pit coal mine could be the oldest Asian remains ever found of anthropoids ...> Full Article |
 | A 2,100-year-old computer recorded the dates of the early Olympiads ...> Full Article |
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Fish can recognize a face based on UV pattern alone
Ancient DNA from rare fossil reveals that polar bears evolved recently and adapted quickly
Scientists locate apparent hydrothermal vents off Antarctica
Mars Express heading for closest flyby of Phobos
Artificial bee silk a big step closer to reality
Predicting the fate of stem cells
Artificial foot recycles energy for easier walking
New fiber nanogenerators could lead to electric clothing
What drives our genes? Researchers map the first complete human epigenome
Juggling enhances connections in the brain
Tracking down the human 'odorprint'
Fill 'er up - with algae
Scientists discover quantum fingerprints of chaos
Researchers help identify cows that gain more while eating less
Dinosaurs might be older than previously thought
Recently analyzed fossil was not human ancestor as claimed, anthropologists say
'Anaconda' meets 'Jurassic Park': Study shows ancient snakes ate dinosaur babies
Tiny shelled creatures shed light on extinction and recovery 65 million years ago
New dinosaur rears its head
New dinosaur discovered head first, for a change
Archaeologist discovers Jerusalem city wall from tenth century B.C.E.
Pitt-led study debunks millennia-old claims of systematic infant sacrifice in ancient Carthage
What was that? Unraveling a 400-million-year-old mystery
Queen's helps produce archaeological 'time machine'
Scientists complete color palette of a dinosaur for the first time
Ancient remains put teeth into Barker hypothesis