Evolution News

Posted May 9, 2002:

• Researchers Discover Clues To Whale Evolution

Posted May 3, 2002:

• Ancient Flower Fossil Points To Underwater Origins

Posted April 18, 2002:

• Scientists Push Back Primate Origins From 65 Million To 85 Million Years Ago

Posted March 28, 2002:

• New Method For Placing Loose Fossils Back Into The Strata , Uncovering "Fakes"

Posted March 27, 2002:

• University Of Alaska Biologist Tracking Extinct Bears

Posted March 25, 2002:

• New Dinosaur Related To Triceratops
• Ethiopian Fossil Skull Indicates Homo Erectus Was Single, Widespread Species 1 Million Years Ago

Posted March 21, 2002:

• Discovery Supports Theory Of A Single Species Of Human Ancestor

Posted March 13, 2002:

• UCLA Scientists, Colleagues Substantiate Biological Origin Of Earliest Fossils

Posted March 7, 2002:

• Humans Emerged "Out Of Africa" Again And Again

Posted February 19, 2002:

• Scientists Look To Europe As Evolutionary Seat

Posted February 14, 2002:

• New Species Clarifies Bird-Dinosaur Link

Posted February 7, 2002:

• First Genetic Evidence Uncovered Of How Major Changes In Body Shapes Occurred During Early Animal Evolution

Posted January 31, 2002:

• Water Lily May Provide A "Missing Link" In The Evolution Of Flowering Plants

Posted January 30, 2002:

• New Theory Of The Evolution Of Bird Flight Linked To Parental Care

Posted January 21, 2002:

• Gondwana Split Sorts Out Mammalian Evolution

Posted January 7, 2002:

• Evolutionary "Speed Limit" Governs How Quickly Life Bounces Back After Extinction; Biodiversity Recovers More Slowly Than Thought

Posted January 4, 2002:

• Inherent Speed Limit Governs How Quickly Life Bounces Back After Extinction, UC Berkeley Research Shows

Posted December 14, 2001:

• Researchers Find Closest Living Relative Of First Land Plants

Posted December 6, 2001:

• Fossil Teeth Reveal Recent Origin Of Human Growth Pattern

Posted November 20, 2001:

• Largest Fossil Cockroach Found; Site Preserves Incredible Detail

Posted November 7, 2001:

• University Of Cincinnati Geologist Finds Survival Benefit To Evolving After Mass Extinctions
• Researchers Zero In On Date Of Early Hominids

Posted October 12, 2001:

• Rafting Rodents From Africa May Have Been Ancestors Of South American Species

Posted September 24, 2001:

• Surprising Link Between Body Size And Extinction Risk

Posted September 20, 2001:

• New Fossils Suggest Whales And Hippos Are Close Kin

Posted September 13, 2001:

• Pre-Neandertal Humans Developed Social Skills Earlier Than Thought

Posted August 10, 2001:

• First Land Plants And Fungi Changed Earth's Climate, Paving The Way For Explosive Evolution Of Land Animals, New Gene Study Suggests

Posted August 3, 2001:

• Dinosaurs' Large Noses May Have Been Key To Physiological Processes

Posted July 30, 2001:

• Dinosaurs Grew Rapidly, Say Florida State University Researchers

Posted July 12, 2001:

• Soil Suggests Early Humans Lived In Forests Instead Of Grasslands
• Earliest Human Ancestors Discovered In Ethiopia; Discovery Of Bones And Teeth Date Fossils Back More Than 5.2 Million Years

Posted June 8, 2001:

• Earliest Efficient Chewing Herbivore Ever Found Spurred Animal Life On Land

Posted June 1, 2001:

• Discovery Of "Tidal Giant" -- A New Egyptian Dinosaur -- Reported In Science

Posted May 25, 2001:

• Researchers Discover Fossil Of Tiny Mammal From Early Jurassic; Discovery Provides Important New Evidence On The Earliest Evolution Of Mammals

Posted May 16, 2001:

• Paleontologists Develop Major New Fossil Database: Preliminary Analysis Questions Reality Of Recent Global Radiation

Posted May 15, 2001:

• Scientists Find Link Between Indian Caste Rank And Genetic Similarity To Europeans

Posted May 11, 2001:

• Study Supports Out-Of-Africa Origin For East Asians

Posted April 27, 2001:

• First Dinosaur Found With Its Body Covering Intact; Displays Primitive Feathers From Head To Toe

Posted April 6, 2001:

• What Was Eating Clams And Brachiopods 250 Million Years Ago, Before Modern Predators?

Posted April 3, 2001:

• Oily Fossils Provide Clues To The Evolution Of Flowers

Posted March 29, 2001:

• Major Fossil Find Reveals Asian Origins Of Salamanders

Posted March 28, 2001:

• Ancient Tick Found In New Jersey Leaves Experts Guessing

Posted March 22, 2001:

• Skull Of New Early Human Relative Found In Kenya -- Did Humans Descend From Lucy Or From Newly Discovered Creature?

Posted February 13, 2001:

• Genome Project Opens The Book On Human Evolution

Posted January 11, 2001:

• New Fossil Study Rejects "Eve Theory" And Supports Diverse Ancestry Of Modern Humans
• New Fossil Found In Mongolia Provides Insight Into The Origin Of Living Birds And The Evolution Of Flight

Posted December 21, 2000:

• Diet Diverged In Earliest Human Ancestors, Researchers Find

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