 Retired FSU Professor Captures a 'Living Fossil' on Video June 13, 2006 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 39 vote(s)
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The first images of a live specimen of a small, furry animal once believed to have gone extinct more than 11 million years ago have been captured during a Southeast Asian expedition led by a retired Florida ... | |
Evidence from dirty teeth: Ancient Peruvians ate well 9 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Starch grains preserved on human teeth reveal that ancient Peruvians ate a variety of cultivated crops including squash, beans, peanuts and the fruit of cultivated pacay trees. | |
Oetzi's last supper 15 hours ago | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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What we eat can say a lot about us – where we live, how we live and eventually even when we lived. From the analysis of the intestinal contents of the 5,200-year-old Iceman from the Eastern Alps, Professor James Dickson from ... | |
Study of oldest turtle fossil November 26, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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With hard bony shells to shelter and protect them, turtles are unique and have long posed a mystery to scientists who wonder how such an elegant body structure came to be. | |
Climate change wiped out cave bears 13 millennia earlier than thought November 26, 2008 | User rating: 3.5 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Enormous cave bears, Ursus spelaeus, that once inhabited a large swathe of Europe, from Spain to the Urals, died out 27,800 years ago, around 13 millennia earlier than was previously believed, scientists ... | |
 Marine archaeologists find remains of slave ship November 25, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- Marine archaeologists have found the remains of a slave ship wrecked off the Turks and Caicos Islands in 1841, setting free the ancestors of many current residents of those islands. Some 192 Africans ... | |
Jurassic Croc unearthed by Swiss motorway works November 24, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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Swiss dinosaur experts on Monday exhumed the skeleton of a 150 million year-old marine crocodile unearthed during motorway construction works in the Jura mountain, Swiss news agency ATS reported. | |
 Bulgarian archaeologists unearth ancient chariot November 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Archaeologists have unearthed an elaborately decorated 1,800-year-old chariot sheathed in bronze at an ancient Thracian tomb in southeastern Bulgaria, the head of the excavation said Friday. "The ... | |
 Anthropologists discover long-lost primate in Indonesia November 18, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team led by a Texas A&M University anthropologist has discovered a group of primates not seen alive in 85 years. The pygmy tarsiers, furry Furby/gremlin-looking* creatures about the size ... | |
 Funerary monument reveals Iron Age belief that the soul lived in the stone November 18, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 20 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Archaeologists in southeastern Turkey have discovered an Iron Age chiseled stone slab that provides the first written evidence in the region that people believed the soul was separate from ... | |
 World's earliest nuclear family found November 17, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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The researchers dated remains from four multiple burials discovered in Germany in 2005. The 4,600-year-old graves contained groups of adults and children buried facing each other – an unusual practice in Neolithic ... | |
 Marine plankton found in amber November 13, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 35 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Marine microorganisms have been found in amber dating from the middle of the Cretaceous period. The fossils were collected in Charente, in France. This completely unexpected discovery will ... | |
 Prehistoric pelvis offers clues to human development November 13, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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Discovery of the most intact female pelvis of Homo erectus may cause scientists to reevaluate how early humans evolved to successfully birth larger-brained babies. "This is the most complete female Homo erectus ... | |
Dinosaur whodunit: Solving a 77-million-year-old mystery November 13, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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It has all the hallmarks of a Cretaceous melodrama. A dinosaur sits on her nest of a dozen eggs on a sandy river beach. Water levels rise, and the mother is faced with a dilemma: Stay or abandon her unhatched offspring to ... | |
 Paleontologists Doubt 'Dinosaur Dance Floor' November 07, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A group of paleontologists visited the northern Arizona wilderness site nicknamed a "dinosaur dance floor" and concluded ... | |
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