 Research reveals the origins of chooks August 06, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 6 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: 3.6 / 5 after 10 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 ... | |
 Antarctic fossils paint a picture of a much warmer continent August 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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National Science Foundation-funded scientists working in an ice-free region of Antarctica have discovered the last traces of tundra--in the form of fossilized plants and insects--on the interior of the southernmost ... | |
Little teeth suggest big jump in primate timeline August 04, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Tiny fossilized teeth excavated from an Indian open-pit coal mine could be the oldest Asian remains ever found of anthropoids, the primate lineage of today's monkeys, apes and humans, say researchers from Duke University ... | |
Rock art marks transformations in traditional Peruvian societies August 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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Peru is one of the Latin American countries, like Argentina and Brazil, where rock art is thought to have developed throughout a period stretching from 10,000 BC to 1500 AD. The wealth and diversity of the series of pictorial ... | |
 New life given to ancient Egyptian texts stored at Stanford for decades July 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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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: 4.4 / 5 after 24 vote(s)
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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. | |
 Lost castle solves riddle of Buckton Moor July 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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(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)
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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 ... | |
Archaeologists trace early irrigation farming in ancient Yemen July 16, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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In the remote desert highlands of southern Yemen, a team of archaeologists have discovered new evidence of ancient transitions from hunting and herding to irrigation agriculture 5,200 years ago. | |
 Y chromosome study sheds light on Athapaskan migration to southwest US July 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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A large-scale genetic study of native North Americans offers new insights into the migration of a small group of Athapaskan natives from their subarctic home in northwest North America to the southwestern ... | |
 Was it a bird or was it a plane? July 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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A new study of extinct flying reptiles called kuehneosaurs, has shown that of the of the two genera found in Britain, Kuehneosuchus was a glider while Kuehneosaurus, with much shorter "wings," was a parachutist. | |
 UCSB researcher leads worldwide study on marine fossil diversity July 11, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
It took a decade of painstaking study, the cooperation of hundreds of researchers, and a database of more than 200,000 fossil records, but John Alroy thinks he's disproved much of the conventional wisdom ... | |
Shells - a unique climate archive on the ocean floor July 10, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Most people who find a seashell during their summer holiday on the coast will probably not be aware that they have found a unique record of the climate. For Professor Bernd Schöne, however, these hard calcium shells provide ... | |
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