Scientists recover complete dinosaur skeleton July 24, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 22 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Japanese and Mongolian scientists have successfully recovered the complete skeleton of a 70-million-year-old young dinosaur, a nature museum announced Thursday. | |
 Unique fossil discovery shows Antarctic was once much warmer July 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 24 vote(s)
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A new fossil discovery- the first of its kind from the whole of the Antarctic continent- provides scientists with new evidence to support the theory that the polar region was once much warmer. | |
 Dino diversity had a long pedigree, says study July 23, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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The belief that dinosaurs underwent explosive species diversification just before they were wiped out is an illusion, for the beasts' main evolutionary shifts took place millions of years before, a study says. ... | |
Archaeologists trace early irrigation farming in ancient Yemen July 16, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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In the remote desert highlands of southern Yemen, a team of archaeologists have discovered new evidence of ancient transitions from hunting and herding to irrigation agriculture 5,200 years ago. | |
 Was it a bird or was it a plane? July 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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A new study of extinct flying reptiles called kuehneosaurs, has shown that of the of the two genera found in Britain, Kuehneosuchus was a glider while Kuehneosaurus, with much shorter "wings," was a parachutist. | |
 Y chromosome study sheds light on Athapaskan migration to southwest US July 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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A large-scale genetic study of native North Americans offers new insights into the migration of a small group of Athapaskan natives from their subarctic home in northwest North America to the southwestern ... | |
 Lost castle solves riddle of Buckton Moor July 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A mysterious monument standing on a windswept Lancashire hilltop for nearly a thousand years has been identified as one of England’s most important castles – causing a sensation among archaeologists. | |
 Art of deception: Crystal skulls in British, US museums were fakes July 09, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 24 vote(s)
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How about this for the next instalment of the Indy franchise: "Indiana Jones and the Dodgy Antiques Dealer"? | |
 Flatfish fossils fill in evolutionary missing link July 09, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 17 vote(s)
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Hidden away in museums for more that 100 years, some recently rediscovered flatfish fossils have filled a puzzling gap in the story of evolution and answered a question that initially stumped even Charles ... | |
1,700-year old remains unearthed in Peru tomb July 05, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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A Canadian-led team of archaeologists has unearthed the 1,700 year-old tomb of a leader of the pre-Columbian Moche culture in northern Peru, the scientists said. | |
 No Hobbits in this Shire August 21, 2006 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 29 vote(s)
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The skeletal remains found in a cave on the island of Flores, Indonesia, reported in 2004, do not represent a new species as then claimed but are some of the ancestors of modern human pygmies who live on the ... | |
 Archaeologists find silos and administration center from early Egyptian city July 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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A University of Chicago expedition at Tell Edfu in southern Egypt has unearthed a large administration building and silos that provide fresh clues about the emergence of urban life. | |
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 ... | |
 Viking navigation hypothesis under foggy and cloudy skies requires more light February 27, 2007 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 30 vote(s)
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While history portrays the Vikings as skillful masters of the sea, sailing treacherous routes in the northern Atlantic Ocean during the 10th-13th centuries, just how much knowledge, technology and ability they ... | |
 Scientists discover first fossil of a leaf insect February 08, 2007 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 44 vote(s)
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Stick and leaf insects both belong to the insect order “Phamatodea,” or “phasmid” for short, a term which shares the same roots as the word “phantom.” Besides appropriately describing the species’ illusory ... | |
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