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Seeing The Serpent: Ability To Spot Venomous Snakes May Have Played Major Role In Primate Evolution
July 20, 2006 The ability to spot venomous snakes may have played a major role in the evolution of monkeys, apes and humans, according to a new hypothesis by Lynne Isbell, professor of anthropology at UC ... > full story -
Tyrannosaur Survivorship -- Tough Times For Teens
July 13, 2006 A massive dinosaur death bed in Alberta has helped map out the animal's life span and thrown doubt on long-held theories about how one species lived, says new research conducted in part at the ... > full story -
Large Dinosaurs Were Extremely Hot In Their Day, Study Finds
July 12, 2006 If you think dinosaurs are hot today, just think back to about 110 million years ago when they really ran hot and ... > full story -
Math And Fossils Resolve A Debate On Dinosaur Metabolism
July 11, 2006 A model based on growth trajectories estimated from fossils provides evidence that dinosaurs were reptiles whose body temperatures increased systematically with increasing body size, according to a ... > full story -
Elephants, Large Mammals Recover From Poaching In Africa's Oldest National Park
June 26, 2006 A recent wildlife census conducted in Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) revealed that several species of large mammal are now recovering from a decade of civil war and ... > full story -
Another Grape Excuse To Hit The Bottle
June 16, 2006 Scientists in Italy say they have discovered that the grapes used to make red wine contain high levels of the sleep hormone melatonin.This could explain why so many of us hit the bottle in the ... > full story -
Retired Professor Captures A 'Living Fossil' -- Laotian Rock Rat Once Believed To Have Gone Extinct
June 14, 2006 The first images of a live specimen of a small, furry animal once believed to have gone extinct more than 11 million years ago have been captured during a Southeast Asian expedition led by a retired ... > full story -
How Ancient Whales Lost Their Legs, Got Sleek And Conquered The Oceans
May 23, 2006 When ancient whales finally parted company with the last remnants of their legs about 35 million years ago, a relatively sudden genetic event may have crowned an eons-long shrinking process. An ... > full story -
Man May Have Caused Pre-Historic Extinctions
May 5, 2006 New research shows that pre-historic horses in Alaska may have been hunted into extinction by man, rather than by climate change as previously thought. The discovery by Andrew Solow of Woods Hole ... > full story -
'Banana-Jawed' Fossil Mammal Linked To Rare Sound-Producing Skill
April 26, 2006 Paleontologists at the Duke Lemur Center have assembled a new picture of a 35-million-year-old fossil mammal -- and they even have added a hint of sound. By painstakingly measuring hundreds of ... > full story
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