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Earliest Animal Footprints Ever Found - Discovered In Nevada 10/7/2008

Egalitarian revolution in the Pleistocene? 10/6/2008

Ancient whalers leave their mark on the north 10/5/2008

Meat-eating dinosaur from Argentina had bird-like breathing system 10/4/2008

A new dinosaur species, Pachyrhinosaur lakustai, unveiled from Pipestone Creek, Alberta, Canada 10/3/2008

Canada's shores saved animals from devastating climate change 10/2/2008

Mass extinctions and the slow rise of dinosaurs 10/1/2008

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

America's smallest dinosaur uncovered 9/25/2008

Primordial fish had rudimentary fingers 9/23/2008

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

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

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

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

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

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Rodent Fossils Provide Data On Climate 6 Million Years Ago (12/3/2007)

Rodent Fossils Provide Data On Climate 6 Million Years AgoHow did the rodents which inhabited the south of the Iberian Peninsula live six million years ago? The researcher of the UGR Raef Minwer-Barakat has attempted to answer this question through his doctoral thesis "Rodents and insectivorous of Upper Turoliense and the Pliocene of the central section of the Guadix basin", supervised by doctors Elvira Martín and César Viseras, of the Department of Stratigraphy y Palaeontology of the Universidad de Granada. His studied has concluded with the discovering of three new species of rodents and insectivores (Micromys caesaris, Blarinoides aliciae and Archaeodesmana elvirae) and the finding, for the first time in the region, of nine more species. ...> Full Article


Neanderthal-modern human hybrid not supported (12/3/2007)

Neanderthal-modern human hybrid not supportedAmong the earliest reliably dated modern human fossils from Europe is the Cioclovina calvaria from Romania. This individual lived about 28-29 thousand years before present, and has recently been argued to represent a Neanderthal-modern human hybrid. ...> Full Article


Prehistoric Forest Emerges From Farmer's Pond (12/2/2007)

Prehistoric Forest Emerges From Farmer's PondDennis Myllyla thought he'd struck a fine bargain with the Michigan Department of Transportation. MDOT would get fill for nearby highway construction by dredging a pond on his farm near Arnheim, Mich., and Myllyla would get the pond. ...> Full Article


How our ancestors were like gorillas (12/1/2007)

Fossils illustrate sex differences in growth and the costs of being a male ...> Full Article


Petrified velvet worms from 425 million BC reveal true ecology of the distant past (11/28/2007)

Petrified velvet worms from 425 million BC reveal true ecology of the distant pastVelvet-worms look like 'a dozen headless Michelin men dancing a conga' ...> Full Article


Researcher helps unravel mystery of Earth's oldest forest (11/25/2007)

Research offers new insights into the world's oldest trees. ...> Full Article


Digging Biblical History At 'The End Of The World' (11/24/2007)

Digging Biblical History At 'The End Of The World'Tel Aviv University archaeologists are studying Tel Megiddo, the New Testament location of "Armageddon," and unearthing truths about King Solomon. ...> Full Article


Giant fossil sea scorpion (11/22/2007)

Giant fossil sea scorpionGiant fossil sea scorpion bigger than a man ...> Full Article


Archaeology unearths gout in early Pacific people (11/20/2007)

High rates of gout among Māori and Pacific Island men may have a genetic basis going back thousands of years to the time when Polynesia and Melanesia were being colonised from South East Asia. ...> Full Article


Digging For Dinosaurs In Outback Australia (11/19/2007)

Digging For Dinosaurs In Outback AustraliaOutback Queensland has become the focus of an international research project that is helping to decipher the evolution of Australian dinosaurs and their relationships to those of other southern continents. ...> Full Article


Chocolate drinks - probably fermented ones - popular long before previously thought, says anthropologist (11/19/2007)

Chocolate drinks - probably fermented ones - popular long before previously thought, says anthropologistMesoamerican menus featured cacao beverages - probably fermented ones - at least as early as 1100 B.C., some 500 years earlier than previously documented anywhere, according to new research published in the latest issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. ...> Full Article


Dinosaur Track Discovery In Australia (11/18/2007)

Dinosaur Track Discovery In AustraliaFossil tracks belonging to large, carnivorous dinosaurs (Theropods) have been discovered near Inverloch by palaeontologists from Monash University and Museum of Victoria. ...> Full Article


Dinosaur From Sahara Ate Like A 'Mesozoic Cow' (11/18/2007)

Dinosaur From Sahara Ate Like A 'Mesozoic Cow'A 110-million-year-old dinosaur that had a mouth that worked like a vacuum cleaner, hundreds of tiny teeth and nearly translucent skull bones has been discovered. ...> Full Article


Birds may not have clawed their way up the evolutionary tree (11/17/2007)

Researchers have clipped the wings of the idea that the ancestors of modern birds were tree dwellers. ...> Full Article


Researchers study toothy, ground-feeding dinosaur (11/16/2007)

Researchers study toothy, ground-feeding dinosaurPaleontologists have discovered and spent the past decade making sense of a bizarre dinosaur with a mouth that worked like a vacuum cleaner, hundreds of tiny teeth and a paper-thin spine. ...> Full Article


Anthropologist digs ancient Sudan bones (11/15/2007)

From the looks of the woman's skeleton, she might have been in a serious car accident. But, the woman lived sometime between A.D. 300 and A.D. 600, so it was obviously not a crash that killed her. ...> Full Article


Chimps Dig Up Clues to Human Past? (11/14/2007)

Chimps Dig Up Clues to Human Past?One of the keys enabling the earliest human ancestors to trade a forest home for more open country may have been the ability to gather underground foods. Now a team of scientists reports for the first time that in Tanzania our closest living relatives, chimpanzees, are using sticks and pieces of bark to dig for edible roots, tubers and bulbs. ...> Full Article


Human Ancestors: Gatherers or Hunters? (11/13/2007)

Early humans may have dug potato-like foods with tools ...> Full Article


Maya politics likely played role in ancient large-game decline (11/9/2007)

Maya politics likely played role in ancient large-game declineNew study is the first to document ancient hunting effects on large-game species in the Maya lowlands of Central America, and shows political and social demands near important cities likely contributed to their population decline, especially white-tailed deer. ...> Full Article


Why dinosaurs had fowl breath (11/8/2007)

Scientists have discovered how dinosaurs used to breathe in what provides clues to how they evolved and how they might have lived. ...> Full Article


Earliest Birds Acted More Like Turkeys Than Common Cuckoos (11/6/2007)

Earliest Birds Acted More Like Turkeys Than Common CuckoosThe earliest birds acted more like turkeys than common cuckoos, according to a new report. By comparing the claw curvatures of ancient and modern birds, the researchers provide new evidence that the evolutionary ancestors of birds primarily made their livings on the ground rather than in trees. ...> Full Article


How Old Tree Rings And Ancient Wood Are Helping Rewrite History (11/5/2007)

How Old Tree Rings And Ancient Wood Are Helping Rewrite HistoryCornell archaeologists are rewriting history with the help of tree rings from 900-year-old trees, wood found on ancient buildings and through analysis of the isotopes (especially radiocarbon dating) and chemistry they can find in that wood. ...> Full Article


Fossil record reveals elusive jellyfish more than 500 million years old (11/4/2007)

Fossil record reveals elusive jellyfish more than 500 million years oldUsing recently discovered 'fossil snapshots' found in rocks more than 500 million years old, researchers have described the oldest definitive jellyfish ever found. ...> Full Article


Dinosaur Deaths Outsourced to India? (11/4/2007)

Dinosaur Deaths Outsourced to India?A series of monumental volcanic eruptions in India may have killed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, not a meteor impact in the Gulf of Mexico. The eruptions, which created the gigantic Deccan Traps lava beds of India, are now the prime suspect in the most famous and persistent paleontological murder mystery, say scientists who have conducted a slew of new investigations honing down eruption timing. ...> Full Article


Tracing the Roots of the California Condor (11/3/2007)

Tracing the Roots of the California CondorAt the end of the Pleistocene epoch some 10,000 years ago, two species of condors in California competed for resources amidst the retreating ice of Earth's last major glacial age. The modern California condor triumphed, while its kin expired. ...> Full Article


Paleontologists Discover Ancient Jurassic Mammal with New Type of Teeth (11/2/2007)

Paleontologists Discover Ancient Jurassic Mammal with New Type of TeethA team of Chinese and American scientists has discovered a new mammal from the 165 million-year-old lakebeds of the Jurassic Period in Northern China. ...> Full Article


Age of earliest human burial in Britain pinpointed (11/2/2007)

Age of earliest human burial in Britain pinpointedThe oldest known buried remains in Britain are 29,000 years old, archaeologists have found - 4,000 years older than previously thought. The findings show that ceremonial burials were taking place in western Europe much earlier than researchers had believed. ...> Full Article


Earliest ancient cemetery in the Pacific (11/1/2007)

Earliest ancient cemetery in the PacificAnalysis of strange burial positions and skeletons' teeth has given clues about earliest Pacific Island society, according to new research published today. ...> Full Article


Fossilized Body Imprints Of Amphibians Found In 330 Million-year-old Rocks (11/1/2007)

Fossilized Body Imprints Of Amphibians Found In 330 Million-year-old RocksUnprecedented fossilized body imprints of amphibians have been discovered in 330 million-year-old rocks from Pennsylvania. The imprints show the unmistakably webbed feet and bodies of three previously unknown, foot-long salamander-like critters that lived 100 million years before the first dinosaurs. ...> Full Article


Scientist brings 50 million year old spider 'back to life' (10/31/2007)

Scientist brings 50 million year old spider 'back to life'A 50-million-year-old fossilised spider has been brought back to life in stunning 3D by a scientist at The University of Manchester. ...> Full Article


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