Fossil and Archaeology News Archives Page 2
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 | 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 |
A 2000-year-old mystery in the form of a large golden earring
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 | Logs found four feet under current road tell us about early travel in the eastern U.S. ...> Full Article |
 | T. rex -> bird relationship derived exclusively from collagen protein sequence data ...> Full Article |
 | Scientists investigating the reasons why early humans - the so-called hominins - began walking upright say it's unlikely that the need to carry children was a factor, as has previously been suggested. ...> Full Article |
 | Cave in Afghanistan shows oldest use of oil based painting. ...> Full Article |
Very few textiles from the Mayan culture have survived, so the treasure trove of fabrics excavated from a tomb at the Copán ruins in Honduras since the 1990s has generated considerable excitement.
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 | Found southeastern Mexico, crab are the oldest fossils with over-size claw on record and represent a new species ...> Full Article |
 | Nearly every town and village in Britain was once a stomping ground for dinosaurs, a surprisingly high number of which may have originated here in the country which first discovered them, according to the first major review of Britain's dinosaur history. ...> Full Article |
 | An ancient relative of today's elephants lived in water, a team of scientist has found. ...> Full Article |
 | Study has revealed how komodo dragon can be such an efficient killing machine despite having a wimpy bite and a featherweight skull ...> Full Article |
Book documents not only what happened 251 million years ago, but also the recent rekindling of the idea of catastrophism
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 | A nationwide survey on China's paleo-anthropological sites and resources was officially launched recently ...> Full Article |
 | Archaeologist is following tool migration to learn how humans migrated throughout the world ...> Full Article |
Archaeologists working on a site in the Bristol Docks have discovered what is thought to be the first ever substantial use of Portland cement in the construction of a major building. The building was designed in 1839 by the great Victorian engineer, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, to house the machinery to fabricate the world's first screw-propelled iron ship, the ss Great Britain.
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 | By studying monumental Maya stone sculptures from the fifth through eighth centuries in Mexico and Central America, anthropologist looks for clues to how civilizations put their own spin on the past for religious, political or other reasons ...> Full Article |
An archaeological dig in Cambridge has uncovered surprising ancient remains and the foundations of the world's largest telescope of the late Victorian era.
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 | Researcher uncovers the earliest gold jewelry dating back 4,000 years ...> Full Article |
Recent findings by a Russian-American research team suggest that prehistoric cultures were hunting whales at least 3,000 years ago, 1,000 years earlier than was previously known
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 | Researcher has confirmed that dome-headed dinosaurs called pachycephalosaurs could collide with each other during courtship combat ...> Full Article |
Assyrians knew value of location
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 | Paleontologists have found the presence of 356 animal inclusions in completely opaque amber from mid-Cretaceous sites of Charentes (France). The team used the X-rays of the European light source to image two kilogrammes of the fossil tree resin with a technique that allows rapid survey of large amounts of opaque amber. At present this is the only way to discover inclusions in fully opaque amber. ...> Full Article |
 | One of the most mysterious creatures that ever walked the earth was Neandertal, a prehistoric human-like being who first appeared about 230,000 years ago in Europe. Scientists have been debating since the first remains were found in 1856: Was he one of us or a separate species? ...> Full Article |
 | 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 |
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