 Vikings did not dress the way we thought February 25, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 44 vote(s)
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Vivid colors, flowing silk ribbons, and glittering bits of mirrors - the Vikings dressed with considerably more panache than we previously thought. The men were especially vain, and the women dressed provocatively, ... | |
Scientists Find Lamprey a 'Living Fossil' -- 360 Million-year-old Fish Hasn't Evolved Much October 25, 2006 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 24 vote(s)
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Scientists from the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, and the University of Chicago have uncovered a remarkably well-preserved fossil lamprey from the Devonian period that reveals today’s lampreys ... | |
 A Buffet for Early Human Relatives 1.8 Million Years Ago November 09, 2006 | User rating: 3.4 / 5 after 18 vote(s)
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University of Utah scientists improved a method of testing fossil teeth, and showed that early human relatives varied their diets with the seasons 1.8 million years ago, eating leaves and fruit when available ... | |
 Oldest Complex Organic Molecules Found in Ancient Fossils October 25, 2006 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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Ohio State University geologists have isolated complex organic molecules from 350-million-year-old fossil sea creatures -- the oldest such molecules yet found. The molecules may have functioned as pigments, ... | |
 Height or flight? Fossil answers some questions about evolution of flight in dinosaurs, raises others September 06, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 28 vote(s)
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Paleontologists have long theorized that miniaturization was one of the last stages in the long series of changes required in order for dinosaurs to make the evolutionary “leap” to take flight and so become ... | |
Pregnant Prehistoric Fossil Offers Clues to Past September 22, 2006 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 22 vote(s)
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University of Alberta scientists have named a new species of ancient marine reptile , fondly called the Ping Pong Ichthyosaur for the spot the prehistoric creature called home for the last 25 years. Embryos found within the ... | |
 FSU classics professor exploring a 'lost' city of the Mycenaeans March 11, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Along an isolated, rocky stretch of Greek shoreline, a Florida State University researcher and his students are unlocking the secrets of a partially submerged, “lost” harbor town believed to have been built ... | |
Domestication of the donkey March 10, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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An international group of researchers has found evidence for the earliest transport use of the donkey and the early phases of donkey domestication, suggesting the process of domestication may have been slower and less linear ... | |
Centuries-old Maya Blue mystery finally solved February 26, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 35 vote(s)
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Anthropologists from Wheaton College (Illinois) and The Field Museum have discovered how the ancient Maya produced an unusual and widely studied blue pigment that was used in offerings, pottery, murals and other contexts ... | |
Learning to live with oxygen on early Earth October 16, 2006 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 20 vote(s)
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Scientists at the Carnegie Institution and Penn State University have discovered evidence showing that microbes adapted to living with oxygen 2.72 billion years ago, at least 300 million years before the rise of oxygen in ... | |
 Ancestor of all modern crocodilians discovered in outback Queensland June 14, 2006 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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Fossils of the world's most primitive modern crocodilian have been discovered near the outback town of Isisford, in central-western Queensland, Australia. | |
 Radiocarbon testing challenges understanding of ancient Hawaiian architecture August 01, 2006 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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The development of monumental architecture and social complexity on the Hawaiian island of Maui occurred over a span of at least 500 years, according to the most detailed study to date on the antiquity of the ... | |
Embryo Fossils Reveal Animal Complexity 10 Million Years Before Cambrian Explosion October 12, 2006 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 28 vote(s)
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Fossilized embryos predating the Cambrian Explosion by 10 million years provide evidence that early animals had already begun to adopt some of the structures and processes seen in today's embryos, say researchers from Indiana ... | |
 Researchers Discover Evidence Of Gut Parasites In Dinosaur October 23, 2006 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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University of Colorado at Boulder researchers have discovered what appears to be the first evidence of parasites in the gut contents of a dinosaur, indicating even the giants that roamed Earth 75 million years ... | |
The voyage to America: Fossilized human feces reveals the first immigrants April 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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A team of researchers led by Danish professor Eske Willerslev shows that the ancestors of the North American Indians who came from Asia were the first people in America, and that they were of neither European nor African ... | |
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