 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 ... | |
 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 ... | |
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 ... | |
New evidence -- Clovis people not first to populate North America February 22, 2007 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 53 vote(s)
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The belief that the Clovis People were the first to populate North America some 11,500 years ago has been widely challenged in recent years, and a Texas A&M University anthropologist has found evidence he says could be 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. | |
 Retired FSU Professor Captures a 'Living Fossil' on Video June 13, 2006 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 39 vote(s)
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The first images of a live specimen of a small, furry animal once believed to have gone extinct more than 11 million years ago have been captured during a Southeast Asian expedition led by a retired Florida ... | |
Dramatic shift from simple to complex marine ecosystems occurred 250M years ago at mass extinction November 23, 2006 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 64 vote(s)
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The earth experienced its biggest mass extinction about 250 million years ago, an event that wiped out an estimated 95% of marine species and 70% of land species. New research shows that this mass extinction did more than ... | |
 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 ... | |
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. | |
 Scientists discover massive Jurassic marine reptile March 05, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 22 vote(s)
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University of Alaska Museum of the North earth sciences curator Patrick Druckenmiller spent several weeks last summer working with a Norwegian research team to excavate a large pliosaur specimen in the remote ... | |
 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. | |
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. | |
 Earliest evidence of modern humans in Europe discovered January 12, 2007 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 25 vote(s)
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Modern humans who first arose in Africa had moved into Europe as far back as about 45,000 years ago, according to a new study by an international research team led by the Russian Academy of Sciences and the ... | |
Scientists Find Lamprey a 'Living Fossil' -- 360 Million-year-old Fish Hasn't Evolved Much October 25, 2006 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 25 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 ... | |
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