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Fossil and Archaeology News - March 2008 Archives
 | Scientists classify fossil as last known ancestor of humans and Neanderthals ...> Full Article |
 | 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 |
 | Earliest signs of maize as staple food found after spreading south from Mexican homeland ...> Full Article |
 | Researchers re-examine turin shroud in attempt to correct for possible carbon-dating problems ...> Full Article |
 | research team recently helped the Louisville Science Center learn more about an old friend - a 2,600-year-old friend. ...> Full Article |
 | 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 |
 | Paleontologist makes discovery using fossils excavated in South Australian outback ...> Full Article |
 | 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 |
 | Dinosaur-era sea creature named for Calgary scientist after being unearthed at Syncrude mine ...> Full Article |
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.
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 | Researcher demonstrates pre-Columbian use of rafts to transport goods ...> Full Article |
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.
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New Methods To Study and Compare Skull Shapes Illustrate Evolution is Not a Linear Path
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 | Analysis of the first hand bones belonging to an ancient lemur has revealed a mysterious joint structure that has scientists puzzled. ...> Full Article |
 | 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 |
Scientists have revealed what may well be the first pervasive 'rule' of evolution.
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Scientists cite radiocarbon dating of bones at coastal archaeological sites
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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
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 | 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 |
 | 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 |
 | Archaeologists and historians have assembled to solve this ancient murder mystery. ...> Full Article |
 | Geologists discover new fossil embedded in a rock face. ...> Full Article |
 | Researchers have found evidence for the earliest transport use of the donkey and the early phases of donkey domestication ...> Full Article |
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
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Contrary to generally accepted belief, Anatolia was not geographically isolated 25 million years ago
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 | Throughout the 12th and 13th centuries - during the time of the Crusades -ceramic vessels reached Acre from: Mediterranean regions, the Levant, Europe, North Africa, and even China - reveals new research, which examined trade of ceramic vessels, conducted at the University of Haifa. ...> Full Article |
 | Experts in the study of late antiquity at Cardiff University have welcomed the discovery of what has been described as "the world's oldest missing pages" ...> Full Article |
Researchers have joined the worldwide debate over the hobbit-like fossils found on the Indonesian island of Flores, with a controversial new theory suggesting their primitive features are the result of a medical condition.
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 | At 13 years, one of longest running Sino-American scientific collaborations of any kind ...> Full Article |
 | Anthropologists from Wheaton College (Illinois) and The Field Museum have discovered how the ancient Maya produced an unusual and widely studied blue pigment that was used in offerings, pottery, murals and other contexts across Mesoamerica from about A.D. 300 to 1500. ...> 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