 Researchers find an Australian dinosaur with South American heritage June 11, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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Australia's links to South America have just gotten a bit closer, but not due to economic forces, rather fossil forces. | |
 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 ... | |
 New evidence from earliest known human settlement in the Americas May 08, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 42 vote(s)
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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 ... | |
 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 ... | |
Uncovering the truth behind the largest marsupial to walk the Earth June 09, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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University of Queensland research is uncovering the truth behind the largest marsupial ever to walk the earth – the 2.5 tonne wombat-like Diprotodon. | |
New research refutes myth of pure Scandinavian race June 09, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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A team of forensic scientists at the University of Copenhagen has studied human remains found in two ancient Danish burial grounds dating back to the iron age, and discovered a man who appears to be of arabian origin. The ... | |
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. | |
 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 ... | |
21st century technology cracks alchemists' secret recipe November 22, 2006 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 127 vote(s)
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A 500-year old mystery surrounding the centerpiece of the alchemists' lab kit has been solved by UCL (University College London) and Cardiff University archaeologists. | |
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. | |
 Researchers find pre-Clovis human DNA April 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 45 vote(s)
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DNA from dried human excrement recovered from Oregon's Paisley Caves is the oldest found yet in the New World -- dating to 14,300 years ago, some 1,200 years before Clovis culture -- and provides apparent ... | |
DNA reveals sister power in Ancient Greece June 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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University of Manchester researchers have revealed how women, as well as men, held positions of power in ancient Greece by right of birth. | |
 Archaeologists explore Peruvian mystery May 22, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 32 vote(s)
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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. | |
 Oldest DNA Ever Recovered Suggests Earth Was Warmer July 05, 2007 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 84 vote(s)
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Ancient Greenland was green. New Danish research has shown that it was covered in conifer forest and, like southern Sweden today, had a relatively mild climate. Eske Willerslev, a professor at Copenhagen ... | |
Giant flying reptiles preferred to walk May 28, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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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. | |
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