 Viking navigation hypothesis under foggy and cloudy skies requires more light February 27, 2007 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 30 vote(s)
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While history portrays the Vikings as skillful masters of the sea, sailing treacherous routes in the northern Atlantic Ocean during the 10th-13th centuries, just how much knowledge, technology and ability they ... | |
 Scientists discover first fossil of a leaf insect February 08, 2007 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 44 vote(s)
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Stick and leaf insects both belong to the insect order “Phamatodea,” or “phasmid” for short, a term which shares the same roots as the word “phantom.” Besides appropriately describing the species’ illusory ... | |
 Ancient ape ruled out of man's ancestral line December 07, 2006 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 22 vote(s)
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Ancient remains, once thought to be a key link in the evolution of mankind, have now been shown to be 400,000 years too young to be a part of man’s family tree. | |
 No Hobbits in this Shire August 21, 2006 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 29 vote(s)
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The skeletal remains found in a cave on the island of Flores, Indonesia, reported in 2004, do not represent a new species as then claimed but are some of the ancestors of modern human pygmies who live on the ... | |
 A missing link settles debate over the origin of frogs and salamanders May 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 26 vote(s)
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The description of an ancient amphibian that millions of years ago swam in quiet pools and caught mayflies on the surrounding land in Texas has set to rest one of the greatest current controversies in vertebrate ... | |
 New evidence from earliest known human settlement in the Americas May 08, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 42 vote(s)
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New evidence from the Monte Verde archaeological site in southern Chile confirms its status as the earliest known human settlement in the Americas and provides additional support for the theory that one early ... | |
 Molecular analysis confirms T. rex's evolutionary link to birds April 24, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 31 vote(s)
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Putting more meat on the theory that dinosaurs’ closest living relatives are modern-day birds, molecular analysis of a shred of 68-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex protein – along with that of 21 modern ... | |
 Researchers find pre-Clovis human DNA April 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 44 vote(s)
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DNA from dried human excrement recovered from Oregon's Paisley Caves is the oldest found yet in the New World -- dating to 14,300 years ago, some 1,200 years before Clovis culture -- and provides apparent ... | |
 Scientists discover massive Jurassic marine reptile March 05, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 22 vote(s)
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University of Alaska Museum of the North earth sciences curator Patrick Druckenmiller spent several weeks last summer working with a Norwegian research team to excavate a large pliosaur specimen in the remote ... | |
 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 ... | |
 Height or flight? Fossil answers some questions about evolution of flight in dinosaurs, raises others September 06, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 28 vote(s)
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Paleontologists have long theorized that miniaturization was one of the last stages in the long series of changes required in order for dinosaurs to make the evolutionary “leap” to take flight and so become ... | |
 Oldest DNA Ever Recovered Suggests Earth Was Warmer July 05, 2007 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 84 vote(s)
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Ancient Greenland was green. New Danish research has shown that it was covered in conifer forest and, like southern Sweden today, had a relatively mild climate. Eske Willerslev, a professor at Copenhagen ... | |
New evidence -- Clovis people not first to populate North America February 22, 2007 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 53 vote(s)
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The belief that the Clovis People were the first to populate North America some 11,500 years ago has been widely challenged in recent years, and a Texas A&M University anthropologist has found evidence he says could be the ... | |
 Earliest evidence of modern humans in Europe discovered January 12, 2007 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 25 vote(s)
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Modern humans who first arose in Africa had moved into Europe as far back as about 45,000 years ago, according to a new study by an international research team led by the Russian Academy of Sciences and the ... | |
Dramatic shift from simple to complex marine ecosystems occurred 250M years ago at mass extinction November 23, 2006 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 64 vote(s)
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The earth experienced its biggest mass extinction about 250 million years ago, an event that wiped out an estimated 95% of marine species and 70% of land species. New research shows that this mass extinction did more than ... | |
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