 Finder of key hominid fossil disputes 7-million-year dating September 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 17 vote(s)
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A fresh storm has broken out over an ancient fossil presented by its defenders as a forebear of humanity and dismissed by its critics as the remains of a vulgar chimp. Controversy has swirled around Toumai, ... | |
'Pristine' Amazonian region hosted large, urban civilization, study finds August 28, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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They aren't the lost cities early explorers sought fruitlessly to discover. But ancient settlements in the Amazon, now almost entirely obscured by tropical forest, were once large and complex enough to be considered "urban" ... | |
 Researchers Find Oldest Gecko Fossil Ever Discovered August 27, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from Oregon State University and the Natural History Museum in London have announced the discovery of the oldest known fossil of a gecko, with body parts that are forever preserved ... | |
Fragile Dead Sea Scrolls to go online August 27, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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Israeli scientists on Wednesday unveiled a programme to put thousands of fragile fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls online, using infrared imaging to reveal previously illegible portions of the biblical documents. | |
Ancient mother spawns new insight on reptile reproduction August 27, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
A 75-million-year-old fossil of a pregnant turtle and a nest of fossilized eggs that were discovered in the badlands of southeastern Alberta by scientists and staff from the University of Calgary and the Royal Tyrrell Museum ... | |
 Archaeologists unearth 1,300-year-old mummy in Peruvian capital August 27, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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Archaeologists have unearthed a well-preserved 1,300-year-old female mummy in a residential area of the Peruvian capital. | |
 Bone parts don't add up to conclusion of Palauan dwarfs August 27, 2008 | User rating: 3.4 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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Misinterpreted fragments of leg bones, teeth and brow ridges found in Palau appear to be an archaeologist's undoing, according to researchers at three institutions. They say that the so-called dwarfs of these ... | |
 New evidence debunks 'stupid' Neanderthal myth August 26, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 43 vote(s)
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Research by UK and American scientists has struck another blow to the theory that Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) became extinct because they were less intelligent than our ancestors (Homo sapiens). ... | |
Oetzi the Iceman dressed like a herdsman August 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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A famous Neolithic Iceman is dressed in clothes made from sheep and cattle hair, a new study shows. The researchers say their findings support the idea that the Iceman was a herdsman, and that their technique, reported today ... | |
 Anropologist explores plausibility of bulbs and tubers in the diet of early human ancestors August 20, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- It was a dirty job, but somebody had to do it. Anthropologist Nathaniel J. Dominy of the University of California, Santa Cruz, has advanced the investigation of the diet of early human ancestors ... | |
 Stone Age Graveyard reveals Lifestyles of a 'Green Sahara': Two Successive Cultures Thrived Lakeside August 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 20 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The largest Stone Age graveyard found in the Sahara, which provides an unparalleled record of life when the region was green, has been discovered in Niger by National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence ... | |
 New evidence implicates humans in prehistoric animal extinctions August 11, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 21 vote(s)
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Research led by UK and Australian scientists sheds new light on the role that our ancestors played in the extinction of Australia's prehistoric animals. The study, published this week in the journal Proceedings ... | |
 Research reveals the origins of chooks August 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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(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. | |
 A potted history of milk August 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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(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. | |
 Duck-billed dinosaurs outgrew predators to survive August 06, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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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 ... | |
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