 Dinosaur Deaths Outsourced to India? October 29, 2007 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 42 vote(s)
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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 ... | |
Fossil record supports evidence of impending mass extinction October 24, 2007 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 55 vote(s)
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Global temperatures predicted for the coming centuries may trigger a new ‘mass extinction event’, where over 50 per cent of animal and plant species would be wiped out, warn scientists at the Universities of York and Leeds. | |
Aussie scientists discover oldest proof of live birth May 28, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 24 vote(s)
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Australian scientists have discovered the oldest evidence of live birth on the planet, thanks to a fossil fish from Western Australia with a well-preserved embryo inside the body cavity. | |
 Molecular analysis confirms T. rex's evolutionary link to birds April 24, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 31 vote(s)
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Putting more meat on the theory that dinosaurs’ closest living relatives are modern-day birds, molecular analysis of a shred of 68-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex protein – along with that of 21 modern ... | |
 Shell-breaking crabs lived 20 million years earlier than thought April 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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While waiting for colleagues at a small natural history museum in the state of Chiapas, Mexico last year, Cornell paleontologist Greg Dietl chanced upon a discovery that has helped rewrite the evolutionary ... | |
Men fighting over women? It's nothing new, suggests research June 03, 2008 | User rating: 3.5 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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Men may usually settle it over a drunken brawl in the pub or perhaps a verbal spat – but new evidence has shown for the first time that fighting over women in prehistoric times could have been worse than that. | |
Britain’s last Neanderthals were more sophisticated than we thought June 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 49 vote(s)
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An archaeological excavation at a site near Pulborough, West Sussex, has thrown remarkable new light on the life of northern Europe’s last Neanderthals. It provides a snapshot of a thriving, developing population – rather ... | |
 Giant fossil sea scorpion bigger than man November 21, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 31 vote(s)
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The discovery of a giant fossilized claw from an ancient sea scorpion indicates that when alive it would have been about 2.5 meters long, much taller than the average man. | |
 480 million-year-old fossil sheds light on 150-year-old paleontological mystery January 09, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 44 vote(s)
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Discovery of an exceptional fossil specimen in southeastern Morocco that preserves evidence of the animal’s soft tissues has solved a paleontological puzzle about the origins of an extinct group of bizarre ... | |
 Refining the date of the K/T boundary and the dinosaur extinction April 24, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Berkeley Geochronology Center have pinpointed the date of the dinosaurs' extinction more precisely than ever thanks to refinements to a common ... | |
 Archaeologists reconstruct life in the Bronze Age through the site of La Motilla January 24, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 18 vote(s)
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Researchers of the Group of Recent Prehistory Studies (GEPRAN) of the University of Granada, from the department of Prehistory and Archaeology, have taken an important step to determine how life was in the ... | |
 Royals weren't only builders of Maya temples, archaeologist finds February 25, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 17 vote(s)
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An intrepid archaeologist is well on her way to dislodging the prevailing assumptions of scholars about the people who built and used Maya temples. | |
 Scientists find 245 million-year-old burrows of land vertebrates in Antarctica June 08, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 24 vote(s)
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For the first time paleontologists have found fossilized burrows of tetrapods – any land vertebrates with four legs or leglike appendages – in Antarctica dating from the Early Triassic epoch, about 245 million ... | |
 A missing link settles debate over the origin of frogs and salamanders May 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 26 vote(s)
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The description of an ancient amphibian that millions of years ago swam in quiet pools and caught mayflies on the surrounding land in Texas has set to rest one of the greatest current controversies in vertebrate ... | |
 Cutting-edge weapons result of prehistoric experimentation June 10, 2008 | User rating: 3.6 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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In today's fast-paced, technologically advanced world, people often take the innovation of new technology for granted without giving much thought to the trial-and-error experimentation that makes technology ... | |
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