Fossil and Archaeology News - July 2008 Archives
 | New research challenges dino tissue finding and suggests that the supposed recovered tissue is in reality biofilm -- or slime. ...> Full Article |
 | Texts, collectively called papyri, were donated to Stanford in the 1920 ...> Full Article |
 | The most comprehensive picture ever produced of how dinosaurs evolved. ...> Full Article |
 | A new fossil discovery- the first of its kind from the whole of the Antarctic continent- provides scientists with new evidence to support the theory that the polar region was once much warmer. ...> Full Article |
Project will track the evolution of shapes of ancient artifacts
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 | Scientists Team Up with Florida Aquarium Divers to Excavate Unique Site in North Port ...> Full Article |
Scientists contend they have the answer to mass extinction of animals and plants 93 million years ago. The answer, research has uncovered, has been found at the bottom of the sea floor where lava fountains erupted, altering the chemistry of the sea and possibly of the atmosphere.
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Reconstruction will help explain the evolution of the human brain
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In the remote desert highlands of southern Yemen, a team of archaeologists have discovered new evidence of ancient transitions from hunting and herding to irrigation agriculture 5,200 years ago.
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 | It took a decade of painstaking study, the cooperation of hundreds of researchers, and a database of more than 200,000 fossil records, but researcher thinks he's disproved much of the conventional wisdom about the diversity of marine fossils and extinction rates. ...> Full Article |
 | Archaeopteryx is famous as the world's oldest bird, but reptiles were flying about some 50 million years earlier than that ...> Full Article |
Study will contribute to our understanding of early humans in North America
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Study eliminates a long-lingering challenge to the theory of evolution through natural selection
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 | Large-brained simians of the New and Old Worlds independently arose from smaller-brained ancestors ...> Full Article |
 | The traces of organic material found in fossil feathers are remnants of pigments that once gave birds their color ...> Full Article |
 | A complete mandible of Homo erectus was discovered at the Thomas I quarry in Casablanca ...> Full Article |
 | Improved understanding of the history of biological diversity has implications for future responses to climate change ...> Full Article |
 | Expedition at Tell Edfu in southern Egypt has unearthed a large administration building and silos that provide fresh clues about the emergence of urban life. ...> Full Article |
 | Herpetologists discover that a Malagasy chameleon spends most of its short life in an egg ...> 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