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Scientists recover complete dinosaur skeleton

July 24, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 16 vote(s) | User comments: 2

(AP) -- Japanese and Mongolian scientists have successfully recovered the complete skeleton of a 70-million-year-old young dinosaur, a nature museum announced Thursday.


New life given to ancient Egyptian texts stored at Stanford for decades

July 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 7 vote(s) | No comments yet

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 ...


Unique fossil discovery shows Antarctic was once much warmer

July 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 22 vote(s) | User comments: 13

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.


Dino diversity had a long pedigree, says study

July 23, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

The belief that dinosaurs underwent explosive species diversification just before they were wiped out is an illusion, for the beasts' main evolutionary shifts took place millions of years before, a study says. ...


Ancient Egyptian boat to be excavated, reassembled

July 20, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 8 vote(s) | No comments yet

(AP) -- Archaeologists will excavate hundreds of fragments of an ancient Egyptian wooden boat entombed in an underground chamber next to Giza's Great Pyramid and try to reassemble the craft, Egyptologists ...


Lost castle solves riddle of Buckton Moor

July 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 15 vote(s) | User comments: 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- A mysterious monument standing on a windswept Lancashire hilltop for nearly a thousand years has been identified as one of England’s most important castles – causing a sensation among archaeologists.


Tulane University Anthropologist Helps Unravel Mummy Mystery

July 18, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 8 vote(s) | No comments yet

Tulane University anthropologist Kit Nelson is the co-director of a National Geographic-sponsored team that is in the process of unraveling a mummy bundle found in Peru's historic Huaura Valley. The mummy is believed to have ...