Fossil and Archaeology News - September 2008 Archives

Mother Of A Goose! Giant Ocean-going Geese With Bony-teeth Once Roamed Across SE England (9/27/2008)

A 50 million year old skull reveals that huge birds with a 5 metre wingspan once skimmed across the waters that covered what is now London, Essex and Kent ...> Full Article

America's smallest dinosaur uncovered (9/25/2008)

Remains of Cretaceous 'anteater' found during Albertosaurus dig reveal new species of tiny dino ...> Full Article

Primordial fish had rudimentary fingers (9/23/2008)

Rudiments of fingers in the fins in fossil Panderichthys, the 'transitional animal,' indicates that rudimentary fingers developed considerably earlier than was previously thought ...> Full Article

What's in a dinosaur name? (9/18/2008)

Accidentally renaming dinosaurs may be as high as 50 per cent ...> Full Article

Roman York skeleton could be early TB victim (9/17/2008)

The skeleton of a man discovered by archaeologists in a shallow grave on the site of the University of York's campus expansion could be that of one of Britain's earliest victims of tuberculosis ...> Full Article

Thick-boned fish reveals paleoclimate in Qaidam Basin (9/16/2008)

Scientists made a discovery on the fossilized remains of an unusual cyprinid fish from Pliocene lake deposits of the Qaidam Basin ...> Full Article

Extinct species had large teeth on roof of mouth (9/15/2008)

Paleontologists have found a previously unknown amphibious predator species in Antarctica ...> Full Article

Fossilized Discovery Leads Paleontologist to Find Early Whales Used Back Legs for Swimming (9/14/2008)

New fossils pinpoint where tail flukes developed in the evolution of whales. ...> Full Article

Dinosaurs' 'superiority' challenged by their crocodile cousins (9/12/2008)

Good luck, not general 'superiority', was the primary factor in the rise of the dinosaurs ...> Full Article

Tutankhamen fathered twins (9/5/2008)

Two foetuses found in the tomb of Tutankhamen may have been twins and were very likely to have been the children of the teenage Pharaoh, according to the anatomist who first studied the mummified remains of the young King in the 1960s. ...> Full Article

Oldest Gecko Fossil Ever Found, Entombed In Amber (9/4/2008)

The find is at least 40 million years older than the oldest known gecko fossil ...> Full Article

Prehistoric funerary precinct excavated in northern Israel (9/3/2008)

Grave goods include phallic figurines, sea shells from Mediterranean and Red Seas, items from Syria, Cyprus and Anatolia ...> Full Article