Embryo Fossils Reveal Animal Complexity 10 Million Years Before Cambrian Explosion October 12, 2006 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 29 vote(s)
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Fossilized embryos predating the Cambrian Explosion by 10 million years provide evidence that early animals had already begun to adopt some of the structures and processes seen in today's embryos, say researchers from Indiana ... | |
 Researchers Discover Evidence Of Gut Parasites In Dinosaur October 23, 2006 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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University of Colorado at Boulder researchers have discovered what appears to be the first evidence of parasites in the gut contents of a dinosaur, indicating even the giants that roamed Earth 75 million years ... | |
I there but caught a glimpse... of a 410 million-year-old eye or two September 06, 2006 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 20 vote(s)
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A University of Queensland researcher has uncovered the oldest known fossilised eye capsules from jawed fishes. | |
 Fossil Is Missing Link in Elephant Lineage November 01, 2006 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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A pig-sized, tusked creature that roamed the earth some 27 million years ago represents a missing link between the oldest known relatives of elephants and the more recent group from which modern elephants descended, ... | |
 Bronze Age building saved from the sea August 25, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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A team of archaeologists have saved a Bronze Age building on Shetland from destruction by the sea... by moving it brick by brick to a safe new location. | |
Ancient flying dragon discovered in China March 21, 2007 | User rating: 3 / 5 after 91 vote(s)
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Chinese scientists say they've found the remains of a small "flying dragon" that lived around the time of the dinosaurs. | |
 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. | |
 New life given to ancient Egyptian texts stored at Stanford for decades July 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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They're torn and faded and have the woven texture of a flattened Triscuit. At first glance, the ancient Egyptian texts look like scraps of garbage. And more than 2,000 years ago, that's exactly what they were—discarded ... | |
 Ancient Bison Teeth Provide Window on Past Great Plains Climate, Vegetation August 07, 2006 | User rating: 3.2 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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A University of Washington researcher has devised a way to use the fossil teeth of ancient bison as a tool to reconstruct historic climate and vegetation changes in America's breadbasket, the Great Plains. | |
 Stonehenge 'No Place for the Dead', Says Expert November 16, 2006 | User rating: 3.6 / 5 after 56 vote(s)
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Professor Timothy Darvill, Head of the Archaeology Group at Bournemouth University, has breathed new life into the controversy surrounding the origins of Stonehenge by publishing a theory which suggests that ... | |
 Fossil Discovery Turns Scientific Theory on Its Head December 18, 2006 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 34 vote(s)
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An international team led by University of Adelaide palaeontologist Trevor Worthy has discovered a unique, primitive type of land mammal that lived at least 16 million years ago on New Zealand. | |
 New details of first major urban battle emerge along with clues about civilization’s origins January 16, 2007 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 28 vote(s)
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New details in the tragic end of one of the world’s earliest cities as well as clues about how urban life may have begun there were revealed in a recent excavation in northeastern Syria that was conducted by ... | |
Human ancestors more primitive that once thought September 19, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 58 vote(s)
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A team of researchers, including Herman Pontzer, Ph.D., assistant professor of physical anthropology in Arts & Sciences, has determined through analysis of the earliest known hominid fossils outside of Africa, recently discovered ... | |
 Was it a bird or was it a plane? July 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 12 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. | |
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. | |
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