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Neanderthals and Their Contemporaries Engineered Stone Tools, Anthropologists Discover
January 24, 2012 — New published research from anthropologists in the UK supports the long-held theory that early human ancestors across Africa, Western Asia and Europe engineered their stone ... > full story -
Ancient Domesticated Dog Skull Found in Siberian Cave: 33,000 Years Old
January 23, 2012 — A 33,000-year-old dog skull unearthed in a Siberian mountain cave presents some of the oldest known evidence of dog domestication and indicates that modern dogs may be descended from multiple ... > full story -
Waiting for Death Valley's Big Bang: Volcanic Explosion Crater May Have Future Potential
January 23, 2012 — In California's Death Valley, death is looking just a bit closer. Geologists have determined that the half-mile-wide Ubehebe Crater, formed by a prehistoric volcanic explosion, was created far more ... > full story -
Ancient Dinosaur Nursery: Oldest Nesting Site Yet Found
January 23, 2012 — An excavation at a site in South Africa has unearthed the 190-million-year-old dinosaur nesting site of the prosauropod dinosaur Massospondylus -- revealing significant clues about the evolution of ... > full storyMore: -
New Study Sheds Light on Evolutionary Origin of Oxygen-Based Cellular Respiration
January 22, 2012 — Researchers in Japan have clarified the crystal structure of quinol dependent nitric oxide reductase (qNOR), a bacterial enzyme that offers clues on the origins of our earliest oxygen-breathing ... > full story -
When It Comes to Accepting Evolution, Gut Feelings Trump Facts
January 19, 2012 — For students to accept the theory of evolution, an intuitive "gut feeling" may be just as important as understanding the facts, according to a new study. In an analysis of the beliefs of biology ... > full story -
Unusual 'Tulip' Creature Discovered: Lived in the Ocean More Than 500 Million Years Ago
January 18, 2012 — A bizarre creature that lived in the ocean more than 500 million years ago has emerged from the famous Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale in the Canadian Rockies. Officially named Siphusauctum gregarium, ... > full story -
Ancient Popcorn Discovered in Peru
January 18, 2012 — People living along the coast of Peru were eating popcorn 1,000 years earlier than previously reported and before ceramic pottery was used there, according to a new ... > full story -
Biologists Replicate Key Evolutionary Step
January 17, 2012 — More than 500 million years ago, single-celled organisms on the Earth's surface began forming multicellular clusters that ultimately became plants and animals. Just how that happened is a question ... > full story -
The Fermented Cereal Beverage of the Sumerians May Not Have Been Beer
January 17, 2012 — Archaeological finds from cuneiform tablets and remnants of different vessels from over 4,000 years ago show that even around the dawn of civilization, fermented cereal juice was highly enjoyed by ... > full story -
New Portrait to Mark Hooke's Place in History
January 13, 2012 — Chroniclers of his time called him ‘despicable’, ‘mistrustful’ and ‘jealous’, and a rivalrous Isaac Newton might have had the only surviving portrait of him burnt, ... > full story -
Most Recent European Great Ape Discovered
January 13, 2012 — Based on a hominid molar, scientists from Germany, Bulgaria and France have documented that great apes survived in Europe in savannah-like landscapes until seven million years ... > full story
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