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Scientists find 245 million-year-old burrows of land vertebrates in Antarctica

June 08, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 24 vote(s) | User comments: 2

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 ...


Dinosaur diggers bring mobile lab, new techniques to Eastern Montana

June 06, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

Scientists who dig dinosaurs in Eastern Montana will now be able to chemically analyze fossils the same day they're excavated and before degrading begins.


Men fighting over women? It's nothing new, suggests research

June 03, 2008 | User rating: 3.6 / 5 after 14 vote(s) | User comments: 4

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.


DNA reveals sister power in Ancient Greece

June 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 10 vote(s) | No comments yet

University of Manchester researchers have revealed how women, as well as men, held positions of power in ancient Greece by right of birth.


Burials held at Stonehenge for hundreds of years: research

May 29, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 8 vote(s) | No comments yet

England's famous Stonehenge monument was used as a burial site from its inception around 3000 BC until well after the massive stones were erected there around 2500 BC, scientists said Thursday.


Aussie scientists discover oldest proof of live birth

May 28, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 25 vote(s) | User comments: 6

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.


Giant flying reptiles preferred to walk

May 28, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 18 vote(s) | User comments: 1

New research into gigantic flying reptiles has found that they weren’t all gull-like predators grabbing fish from the water but that some were strongly adapted for life on the ground.


Archaeologists explore Peruvian mystery

May 22, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 32 vote(s) | User comments: 1

Indiana Jones may be flying over the Nazca Lines in Peru in his latest Hollywood adventure, but two British archaeologists have been investigating the enigmatic desert drawings for several years.


A missing link settles debate over the origin of frogs and salamanders

May 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 26 vote(s) | User comments: 2

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 ...


Scientists find first dinosaur tracks on Arabian Peninsula

May 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 18 vote(s) | No comments yet

Scientists have discovered the first dinosaur tracks on the Arabian Peninsula. In the May 21 issue of the journal PLoS ONE, they report evidence of a large ornithopod dinosaur, as well as a herd of ...


University of Chicago launches first archaeological dig at site of 1893 World's Fair

May 19, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

A group of undergraduates at the University of Chicago has come in touch with the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, launching the first archaeological dig of the famed Chicago fair site in Jackson Park.


Researcher finds El Nino may have been factor in Magellan's Pacific voyage

May 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 7 vote(s) | No comments yet

A new paper by North Carolina State University archaeologist Dr. Scott Fitzpatrick shows that Ferdinand Magellan’s historic circumnavigation of the globe was likely influenced in large part by unusual weather conditions – ...


Archaeologist uses satellite imagery to explore ancient Mexico

May 13, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 8 vote(s) | No comments yet

Satellite imagery obtained from NASA will help archeologist Bill Middleton peer into the ancient Mexican past. In a novel archeological application, multi- and hyperspectral data will help build the most accurate and most ...


New evidence from earliest known human settlement in the Americas

May 08, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 43 vote(s) | No comments yet

New evidence from the Monte Verde archaeological site in southern Chile confirms its status as the earliest known human settlement in the Americas and provides additional support for the theory that one early ...


Egyptian elite tombs accessible for all

May 08, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 10 vote(s) | No comments yet

A number of elite tombs from Ancient Egypt are now accessible to all thanks to the launch of the Mastabase. The Mastabase is a CD-ROM containing descriptions and hieroglyphic inscriptions of scenes of daily life from 337 ...


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