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New Climate Record Shows Century-long Droughts In Eastern North America
A stalagmite in a West
Virginia cave has yielded
the most detailed geological
record to date on climate
cycles in eastern North
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Stone Age Graveyard Reveals Lifestyles Of A 'Green Sahara'
The largest Stone Age
graveyard found in the
Sahara, which provides an
unparalleled record of life
when the region was green,
has been discovered in Niger
... > full story
Complete Neanderthal Mitochondrial Genome Sequenced From 38,000-year-old Bone
The complete mitochondrial
genome of a 38,000-year-old
Neanderthal has been
sequenced. The findings open
a window into the
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Duck-billed Dinosaurs Outgrew Predators To Survive
With long limbs and a soft
body, the duck-billed
hadrosaur had few defenses
against predators such as
tyrannosaurs. But new
research on the bones of
... > full story
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Antarctic Fossils Paint Picture Of Much Warmer Continent
August 6, 2008 — Scientists working in an ice-free region of Antarctica have discovered the last traces of tundra -- in the form of fossilized plants and insects -- on the interior of the southernmost continent ... > full story -
Little Teeth Suggest Big Jump In Primate Timeline
August 5, 2008 — Tiny fossilized teeth excavated from an Indian open-pit coal mine could be the oldest Asian remains ever found of anthropoids, the primate lineage of today's monkeys, apes and ... > full story -
Cold And Ice, Not Heat, Episodically Gripped Tropical Regions 300 Million Years Ago
August 1, 2008 — Geoscientists have long presumed that, like today, the tropics remained warm throughout Earth's last major glaciation 300 million years ago. New evidence, however, indicates that cold temperatures in ... > full story -
Did Dinosaur Soft Tissues Still Survive? New Research Challenges Notion
July 30, 2008 — Paleontologists in 2005 hailed research apparently showing that soft tissues had been recovered from dissolved dinosaur bones, but new research suggests the supposed recovered tissue is really just ... > full story -
Piecing Together An Extinct Lemur, Large As A Big Baboon
July 29, 2008 — Researchers have used computed tomography technology to virtually glue newly-discovered skull fragments of a rare extinct lemur back into its partial skull, discovered over a century ago. The skull ... > full story -
Dinosaurs Did Not Evolve Quickly In Last 50 Million Years, New Dinosaur Super-tree Shows
July 24, 2008 — It has long been debated whether dinosaurs were part of the 'Terrestrial Revolution' that occurred some 100 million years ago during the Cretaceous when birds, mammals, flowering plants, insects and ... > full story -
Predynastic Human Presence Discovered By Core Drilling At The Northern Nile Delta Coast, Egypt
July 24, 2008 — A small but significant find made during a geological survey provides evidence of the oldest human presence yet discovered along the northernmost margin of Egypt's Nile ... > full story -
Unique Fossil Discovery Shows Antarctic Was Once Much Warmer
July 23, 2008 — A new fossil discovery -- the first of its kind from the whole of the Antarctic continent -- provides new evidence to support the theory that the polar region was once much warmer. Scientists made ... > full story -
New Evidence Of Battle Between Humans And Ancient Virus
July 23, 2008 — Human ancestors fought back against an ancient retrovirus with a defense mechanism that our bodies still use today. Evidence of this battle has been preserved in our DNA for millions of ... > full story -
Brain Morphology Of Homo Liujiang Cranium Fossil Detailed With 3-D CT Scan
July 21, 2008 — High-resolution industrial computed tomography was used to scan the Homo Liujiang cranium fossil, and the three-dimensional virtual brain image was reconstructed. The brain morphology of Liujiang is ... > full story
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