 Fossil shows human growth at least 160,000 years ago March 13, 2007 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 23 vote(s)
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With an innovative combination of a novel application of synchrotron imaging, high-resolution microtomography, and developmental analysis, the team reconstructed tooth growth and determined the age at death ... | |
 China's earliest modern human April 02, 2007 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 26 vote(s)
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Researchers at WUSTL and the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) in Beijing have been studying a 40,000-year-old early modern human skeleton found in China and have determined ... | |
Scientists Find Lamprey a 'Living Fossil' -- 360 Million-year-old Fish Hasn't Evolved Much October 25, 2006 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 26 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 ... | |
Academic uncovers Holy Grail of palaeontology December 03, 2007 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 53 vote(s)
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Palaeontologist Dr Phil Manning, working with National Geographic Channel has uncovered the Holy Grail of palaeontology in the United States: a partially intact dino mummy. | |
 New dating methods amongst the Top 10 Scientific discoveries of the Year December 18, 2007 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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Time Magazine has named a study by Oxford researchers, using new dating techniques on a human skull to help find out where our most recent common ancestor came from, as one of the Top 10 Scientific ... | |
Cambridge scholar makes rare 30,000-year-old find August 01, 2006 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 20 vote(s)
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Archaeologists have unearthed a pair of tiny bone fragments dating back almost 30,000 years and featuring minute designs carved by some of our earliest European ancestors. | |
 Fossils from ancient sea monster found in Montana November 06, 2006 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 21 vote(s)
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A fossil-hunting trip to celebrate a son's homecoming resulted in the recent discovery of an ancient sea monster in central Montana. Believed to be approximately 70 million years old, its skull and lower jaw ... | |
 Oldest Complex Organic Molecules Found in Ancient Fossils October 25, 2006 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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Ohio State University geologists have isolated complex organic molecules from 350-million-year-old fossil sea creatures -- the oldest such molecules yet found. The molecules may have functioned as pigments, ... | |
 Archaeologist uncover possible medieval mosque in Sicily July 30, 2007 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 26 vote(s)
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Earlier this summer, while standing in an archaeological pit adjacent to an ancient hilltop castle in west-central Sicily, Northern Illinois University graduate student Bill Balco could literally reach out ... | |
Fossil record supports evidence of impending mass extinction October 24, 2007 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 55 vote(s)
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Global temperatures predicted for the coming centuries may trigger a new ‘mass extinction event’, where over 50 per cent of animal and plant species would be wiped out, warn scientists at the Universities of York and Leeds. | |
 Agonized pose tells of dinosaur death throes June 07, 2007 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 42 vote(s)
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The peculiar pose of many fossilized dinosaurs, with wide-open mouth, head thrown back and recurved tail, likely resulted from the agonized death throes typical of brain damage and asphyxiation, according ... | |
 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 ... | |
4 more historic ships found off R.I. May 15, 2006 | User rating: 3.3 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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With four more hulks spotted, Rhode Island can boast it has the world's "largest fleet of Revolutionary shipwrecks," a maritime expert says. | |
 Raiding for women in the pre-Hispanic Southwest? November 10, 2006 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 27 vote(s)
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An important new archaeological study from the December issue of Current Anthropology is the first to document interregional movement of women in the pre-Hispanic Southwest. Using an analysis of grave ... | |
Graffiti found at ancient Italian prison June 16, 2006 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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Graffiti left by prisoners held by the Inquisition in Sicily more than 200 years ago have been found on the walls of an ancient prison. | |
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