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Antarctic fossils paint a picture of a much warmer continent

August 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 16 vote(s) | No comments yet

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 ...


Bulgarian archaeologists discover ancient chariot

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(AP) -- Archaeologists have unearthed a 1,900-year-old well-preserved chariot at an ancient Thracian tomb in southeastern Bulgaria, the head of the excavation said Thursday.


Duck-billed dinosaurs outgrew predators to survive

August 06, 2008 | User rating: 3.4 / 5 after 9 vote(s) | User comments: 4

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 ...


Little teeth suggest big jump in primate timeline

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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) | No comments yet

(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.


Possible Shakespearean theater found in London

August 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 9 vote(s) | User comments: 1

(AP) -- The theater where "The Merchant of Venice" and "Romeo and Juliet" likely debuted and where William Shakespeare himself may have trodden the boards has likely been discovered in east London, archaeologists ...


Rock art marks transformations in traditional Peruvian societies

August 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 5 vote(s) | No comments yet

Peru is one of the Latin American countries, like Argentina and Brazil, where rock art is thought to have developed throughout a period stretching from 10,000 BC to 1500 AD. The wealth and diversity of the series of pictorial ...


Research reveals the origins of chooks

August 06, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 6 vote(s) | No comments yet

(PhysOrg.com) -- The question of whether the egg or the chicken came first may not have been solved, but University of Queensland research is helping find how the humble chook moved around the world.


DNA tests to study mummy fetuses in King Tut tomb

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(AP) -- Egyptian scientists are carrying out DNA tests on two mummified fetuses found in the tomb of King Tutankhamun to determine whether they are the young pharaoh's offspring, the antiquities authority ...


Austrians fete voluptuous, prehistoric Venus

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(AP) -- It's Venusmania in Vienna, where Austrians are celebrating the discovery 100 years ago Thursday of a tiny but voluptuous figurine that dates back 25,000 years to a time when mammoths roamed the region.