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Study shows competition, not climate change, led to Neanderthal extinction 12/30/2008

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Oetzi's last supper 12/3/2008

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Study of oldest turtle fossil 11/29/2008

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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

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