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Scientists Examine The Seas Our Ancestors Fished To Better Understand Today's Changing Oceans
October 23, 2001 — Imagine the world's oceans teeming with whales, sea turtles and fishes, with shellfish so abundant they posed a hazard to navigation. Only in a Jules Verne classic fantasy? Not so. A group of ... > full story -
Rafting Rodents From Africa May Have Been Ancestors Of South American Species
October 12, 2001 — Forty million years ago, rodents from Africa may have colonized South America by rafting or swimming across the Atlantic, Texas A&M University biologists theorize by studying the evolution of ... > full story -
New Fossils Suggest Whales And Hippos Are Close Kin
September 20, 2001 — Partial skeletons of ancient whales found in Pakistan last year resolve a longstanding controversy over the origin of whales, confirming that the giant sea creatures evolved from early ancestors of ... > full story -
Pre-Neandertal Humans Developed Social Skills Earlier Than Thought
September 13, 2001 — If your image of a Neandertal is of a crude, uncaring, brute, think again. Teeth and jaw fossils found last year in southeastern France not only reinforce perceptions about how our Neandertal ... > full story -
Discovery Of Ax Heads Furthers Understanding Of Cahokian Society
August 2, 2001 — A team of archaeologists, including students, working under a blazing summer sun on a high hill near O’Fallon, Ill., have made a rare find. In what was considered to be an "ordinary" ... > full story -
Artifact Analyses Dispute Assumptions About A Prehistoric Society
August 2, 2001 — Fragments of red stone artifacts – bits of smoking pipes, decorative ear lobe spools and a figurine, all plucked out of rich prehistoric soil in the U.S. Midwest – used to tell one story ... > full story -
Researchers Work To Prevent Decay Of Egyptian Antiquities
July 30, 2001 — In the land of pharaohs and sphinxes, civil engineers from the University of Missouri-Rolla are trying to solve a new riddle: Why are some of Egypt's most treasured antiquities crumbling into ... > full story -
Earliest Human Ancestors Discovered In Ethiopia; Discovery Of Bones And Teeth Date Fossils Back More Than 5.2 Million Years
July 12, 2001 — Anthropologists have discovered the remains of the earliest known human ancestor in Ethiopia, dating to between 5.2 and 5.8 million years ago and which predate the previously oldest-known fossils by ... > full story -
Destruction In Mesopotamia: Ancient Mysteries Fall Prey To Looters In Iraq, Science Feature Reveals
July 6, 2001 — In the northern Iraqi town of Khorsabad four years ago, looters sawed the massive stone head from a statue, sliced it to bits, then tried to spirit the remains to cash-heavy Western collectors. ... > full story -
Evidence Of Ancient El Ninos And Cultural Development
June 19, 2001 — In the July issue of the journal Geology, a team of researchers has suggested that the climate phenomenon known as El Nino has been a contributing factor in the rise and fall of ancient civilizations ... > full story -
Engineering Techniques Help Answer Questions On Ancient Egyptian Artwork
May 15, 2001 — Engineers at Case Western Reserve University, in collaboration with conservators at the Cleveland Museum of Art, have used 21st century technology to characterize the composition and technology of ... > full story -
Study Supports Out-Of-Africa Origin For East Asians
May 11, 2001 — An international study of Y chromosomal DNA shows that East Asian populations migrated out of Africa and suggests that little or no interbreeding of Homo erectus and Homo sapiens occurred after the ... > full story
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