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Fossil and Archaeology News - May 2008 Archives
 | Australian scientists have discovered the oldest evidence of live birth on the planet, thanks to a fossil fish from Western Australia with a well-preserved embryo inside the body cavity. ...> Full Article |
 | Footprints of sauropod herd, ornithopod preserved in Yemen ...> Full Article |
 | New research into gigantic flying reptiles has found that they weren't all gull-like predators grabbing fish from the water but that some were strongly adapted for life on the ground. ...> Full Article |
 | New research shows crystal skulls are not all that they seem ...> Full Article |
 | Archaeologists have been investigating the enigmatic desert drawings for several years ...> Full Article |
 | Science teacher has made tracking of the armored dinosaurs, known as ankylosaurs, something of a specialty ...> Full Article |
 | The description of an ancient amphibian that millions of years ago swam in quiet pools and caught mayflies on the surrounding land in Texas has set to rest one of the greatest current controversies in vertebrate evolution ...> Full Article |
 | The feminine features and elongated head of ancient Egypt's King Akhenaten may be attributed to two genetic defects called aromatose excess syndrome and craniosynostosis ...> Full Article |
Archaeologist shows that Ferdinand Magellan's historic circumnavigation of the globe was likely influenced in large part by unusual weather conditions - including what we now know as El Niņo - which eased his passage across the Pacific Ocean, but ultimately led him over a thousand miles from his intended destination.
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Advanced chemical analyses reveal that, with the help of smart scavenging bacteria, sulfur and iron compounds accumulated in the timbers of the Swedish warship Vasa during her 333 years on the seabed of the Stockholm harbour.
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 | The natural resources of the Monitor National Marine Sanctuary off the North Carolina coast are in good condition overall, but the wreck of the Civil War ironclad encompassed by the site is at risk from human activity and natural deterioration ...> Full Article |
 | Climbing as easy as walking for smaller primates< ...> Full Article |
Professor uses novel approach to study Zapotec culture
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A study which offers a unique snapshot of man's dramatic impact on the planet is published in a new book this week
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 | Based on 14,000-year-old seaweed fragments found at a Chilean archaeological site, researchers suggest that the first humans in the Americas may have migrated along the Pacific coast. ...> Full Article |
 | NASA, lasers, the rainforest canopy and Maya ruins sound like the ingredients for the next Hollywood blockbuster. ...> Full Article |
 | Investigating the ruins of Angkor, working with NASA scientists, flying ultralight aircraft and dodging landmines ...> Full Article |
 | Earliest known human settlement in the Americas raises new questions ...> Full Article |
 | Paleontologists have long been perplexed by dinosaur fossils with missing pieces - sets of teeth without a jaw bone, bones that are pitted and grooved, even bones that are half gone. Now a study identifies a culprit: ancient insects that munched on dinosaur bones. ...> Full Article |
 | The humble cod may be about to have its biggest impact on history since sparking "war" with Iceland in 1972. ...> Full Article |
 | Ancient farmers were growing sunflowers in Mexico more than 4,000 years before the Spaniards arrived ...> Full Article |
 | The new bird, Eoconfuciusornis is the oldest known confuciusornithid, a group unique to China ...> Full Article |
 | New findings suggest that the ancient human "cousin" known as the "Nutcracker Man" wasn't regularly eating anything like nuts after all. ...> 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