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Taking a New Look at Old Digs: Trampling Animals May Alter Stone Age Sites
September 25, 2010 — Stone Age tools discovered embedded in the ground could mislead archaeologists about a Prehistoric site's age. A new study on animal trampling found that water buffalo and goats significantly ... > full story -
Ancient Egypt's Pyramids: Norwegian Researcher Unlocks Construction Secrets
September 24, 2010 — Scientists from around the world have tried to understand how the Egyptians erected their giant pyramids. Now, an architect and researcher from Norway says he has the answer to this ancient, unsolved ... > full story -
City Living Helped Humans Evolve Immunity to Tuberculosis and Leprosy, New Research Suggests
September 24, 2010 — New research has found that a genetic variant which reduces the chance of contracting diseases such as tuberculosis and leprosy is more prevalent in populations with long histories of urban ... > full story -
Amazing Horned Dinosaurs Unearthed on 'Lost Continent'; New Discoveries Include Bizarre Beast With 15 Horns
September 22, 2010 — Discovery of two new horned dinosaurs in southern Utah are part of an entirely new assemblage of dinosaurs found in the Grand Staircase-Escalante Monument, and which confirm that dinosaurs living in ... > full story -
Neanderthals More Advanced Than Previously Thought: They Innovated, Adapted Like Modern Humans, Research Shows
September 22, 2010 — For decades scientists believed Neanderthals developed "modern" tools and ornaments solely through contact with Homo sapiens, but new research now shows these sturdy ancients could adapt, innovate ... > full story -
Child Rearing Practices of Distant Ancestors Foster Morality, Compassion in Kids
September 22, 2010 — Three new studies show a relationship between child rearing practices common in foraging hunter-gathering societies (how we humans have spent about 99 percent of our history) and better mental ... > full story -
Learning to Live on Land: How Some Early Plants Overcame an Evolutionary Hurdle
September 22, 2010 — Diversity of life would be impossible if the ancestors of modern plants had stayed in the water with their green algal cousins. Moving onto dry land required major changes to adapt to this new ... > full story -
Apollo Discovery Tells a New Story
September 20, 2010 — A rare bronze signet ring with the impression of the face of the Greek sun god, Apollo, has been discovered at Tel Dor, in northern ... > full story -
'Archeologists of the Air' Isolate Pristine Aerosol Particles in the Amazon
September 20, 2010 — Environmental engineers who might better be called "archeologists of the air" have, for the first time, isolated aerosol particles in near pristine pre-industrial conditions. Working in the remote ... > full story -
A Chip Off the Early Hominin Tooth: Researchers Develop Method for Determining the Diet of Our Early Ancestors
September 20, 2010 — Were our early mammalian ancestors vegetarians, vegans or omnivores? It's difficult for anthropologists to determine the diet of early mammalians because current fossil analysis provides too little ... > full story -
Fossil of Giant Bony-Toothed Bird from Chile Sets Wingspan Record
September 19, 2010 — A newly discovered skeleton of an ancient seabird from northern Chile provides evidence that giant birds were soaring the skies there 5-10 million years ago. The wing bones of the animal exceed those ... > full story -
Foraging for Fat: Crafty Crows Use Tools to Fish for Nutritious Morsels
September 17, 2010 — Researchers have used CSI-style analysis to reveal the huge benefits conferred on New Caledonian crows through tool use. Their results give hard evidence of the huge evolutionary advantage that can ... > full story
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