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Quest for Extinct Giant Rats Leads Scientists to Ancient Face Carvings
February 11, 2011 — Ancient stone faces carved into the walls of a well-known limestone cave in East Timor have been discovered by a team searching for fossils of extinct giant ... > full story -
New View of Human Evolution? 3.2 Million-Year-Old Fossil Foot Bone Supports Humanlike Bipedalism in Lucy's Species
February 10, 2011 — A fossilized foot bone recovered from Hadar, Ethiopia, shows that by 3.2 million years ago human ancestors walked bipedally with a modern human-like foot. These findings support the hypothesis that ... > full story -
Foot Bone Suggests Lucy's Kin Had Arched Foot, for Walking
February 10, 2011 — Researchers have found proof that arches existed in a predecessor to the human species that lived more than 3 million years ago. This discovery could change scientists' views of human ... > full story -
Simple Marine Worms Distantly Related to Humans
February 9, 2011 — Two groups of lowly marine worms are related to complex species including vertebrates (such as humans) and starfish, according to new research. Previously thought to be an evolutionary link between ... > full story -
Ancient Teeth Raise New Questions About Origins of Modern Humans
February 9, 2011 — Eight small teeth found in a cave near Rosh Haain, central Israel, are raising big questions about the earliest existence of humans and where we may have originated, say ... > full story -
Genetic Study Uncovers New Path to Polynesia
February 3, 2011 — Surprising new evidence which overturns current theories of how humans colonized the Pacific has been ... > full story -
Anthropologists Discover Earliest Cemetery in Middle East
February 2, 2011 — Anthropologists have discovered the oldest cemetery in the Middle East at a 16,500-year-old site in northern Jordan. The cemetery includes graves containing human remains buried alongside those of a ... > full story -
Newly Discovered Dinosaur Likely Father of Triceratops
January 31, 2011 — Triceratops and Torosaurus have long been considered the kings of the horned dinosaurs. But a new discovery traces the giants' family tree further back in time, when a newly discovered species called ... > full story -
Climatic Fluctuations in Last 2,500 Years Linked to Social Upheavals
January 27, 2011 — Complete record of the Central European climate of the last 2,500 years reconstructed for the first time. It would seem that there are striking chronological parallels between significant variations ... > full story -
Genetic Archaeology Finds Parts of Human Genome More Closely Related to Orangutans Than Chimps
January 26, 2011 — In a new study, in coordination with the publication of the orangutan genome sequence, scientists have presented the surprising finding that although orangutans and humans are more distantly related, ... > full story
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