 New evidence implicates humans in prehistoric animal extinctions August 11, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 21 vote(s)
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Research led by UK and Australian scientists sheds new light on the role that our ancestors played in the extinction of Australia's prehistoric animals. The study, published this week in the journal Proceedings ... | |
 New evidence debunks 'stupid' Neanderthal myth August 26, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 35 vote(s)
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Research by UK and American scientists has struck another blow to the theory that Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) became extinct because they were less intelligent than our ancestors (Homo sapiens). ... | |
 Mummified remains from 1948 plane crash identified August 17, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 17 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Nine years of sleuthing, advanced DNA science and cutting-edge forensic techniques have finally put a name to a mummified hand and arm found in an Alaska glacier. | |
 Stone Age Graveyard reveals Lifestyles of a 'Green Sahara': Two Successive Cultures Thrived Lakeside August 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The largest Stone Age graveyard found in the Sahara, which provides an unparalleled record of life when the region was green, has been discovered in Niger by National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence ... | |
 Archaeologists unearth 1,300-year-old mummy in Peruvian capital August 27, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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Archaeologists have unearthed a well-preserved 1,300-year-old female mummy in a residential area of the Peruvian capital. | |
 Antarctic fossils paint a picture of a much warmer continent August 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 17 vote(s)
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National Science Foundation-funded scientists working in an ice-free region of Antarctica have discovered the last traces of tundra--in the form of fossilized plants and insects--on the interior of the southernmost ... | |
 Bronze Age building saved from the sea August 25, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 6 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. | |
 Duck-billed dinosaurs outgrew predators to survive August 06, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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With long limbs and a soft body, the duck-billed hadrosaur had few defenses against predators such as tyrannosaurs. But new research on the bones of this plant-eating dinosaur suggests that it had at least ... | |
 Saber-toothed cat fossils discovered in Venezuela August 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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(AP) -- An ancient tar pit exposed when Venezuelan oil workers laid a pipeline has yielded a rich trove of fossils, including a type of saber-toothed cat that paleontologists had never found before in South ... | |
 Canada to search for Arctic explorer's ships August 16, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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(AP) -- For more than 160 years, the fate of British explorer Sir John Franklin and his men has remained locked in the frozen Arctic, but warming temperatures are threatening to change that. | |
 Archaeological excavations uncover Roman temple in Zippori (Sepphoris) August 11, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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Ruins of a Roman temple from the second century CE have recently been unearthed in the Zippori National Park in Israel. Above the temple are foundations of a church from the Byzantine period. The excavations, ... | |
Little teeth suggest big jump in primate timeline August 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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Tiny fossilized teeth excavated from an Indian open-pit coal mine could be the oldest Asian remains ever found of anthropoids, the primate lineage of today's monkeys, apes and humans, say researchers from Duke University ... | |
 A potted history of milk August 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Humans were processing cattle milk in pottery vessels more than two thousand years earlier than previously thought, according to new research from the University of Bristol. | |
Fragile Dead Sea Scrolls to go online August 27, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Israeli scientists on Wednesday unveiled a programme to put thousands of fragile fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls online, using infrared imaging to reveal previously illegible portions of the biblical documents. | |
Ancient mother spawns new insight on reptile reproduction August 27, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
A 75-million-year-old fossil of a pregnant turtle and a nest of fossilized eggs that were discovered in the badlands of southeastern Alberta by scientists and staff from the University of Calgary and the Royal Tyrrell Museum ... | |
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