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Learning from Leftovers: A History Drawn from Turkey Bones
December 22, 2010 — Brooklynne Fothergill will have a very different view of Christmas dinner from most people, because the doctoral student is researching the history of turkey domestication by examining old turkey ... > full story -
Africa Has Two Elephant Species, Genetic Analysis Confirms
December 21, 2010 — By comparing the DNA of modern elephants from Africa and Asia to DNA extracted from two extinct species, the woolly mammoth and the mastodon, researchers have concluded that Africa has two -- not one ... > full story -
Rodents Were Diverse and Abundant in Prehistoric Africa When Our Human Ancestors Evolved
December 21, 2010 — Rodents have been one of the most common mammals in Africa for 50 million years. From deserts to rainforests, they flourished in prehistoric Africa, making them a plentiful food source. Now ... > full story -
Three Billion-Year-Old Genomic Fossils Deciphered
December 19, 2010 — Scientists traced thousands of genes from modern genomes back to those genes' first appearance on Earth to create a genomic fossil telling when genes came into being and which ancient microbes ... > full story -
More Than 100 New Species Described by California Academy of Sciences in 2010
December 16, 2010 — In an effort to address the critical need for data about the diversity of life on Earth, scientists from the California Academy of Sciences have spent the past year exploring some of the planet's ... > full story -
Colossal Fossil: Museum's New Whale Skeleton Represents Decades of Research
December 16, 2010 — There's a whale of a new display at the University of Michigan Exhibit Museum of Natural History, a leviathan that represents a scientific saga of equally grand ... > full story -
Age Doesn't Matter: New Genes Are as Essential as Ancient Ones
December 16, 2010 — New genes that have evolved in species as little as one million years ago -- a virtual blink in evolutionary history -- can be just as essential for life as ancient genes, startling new research has ... > full story -
Oldest Fossils Found in Cordillera Bética Mountain Range
December 13, 2010 — Researchers have found fossils of Ordovician conodonts dating to between 446 and 444 million years ago for the first time in the western Mediterranean. The discovery of these very primitive marine ... > full story -
Bizarre Reptile Challenges Notion of Crocodiles as 'Living Fossils'
December 10, 2010 — We all know that crocodiles are reptiles with long snouts, conical teeth, strong jaws and long tails. But, new discoveries show we don't know what we thought we knew. Rather, some crocodiles ... > full story -
First Horned Dinosaur from South Korea Discovered
December 6, 2010 — Scientists have discovered a new horned dinosaur. The newly identified genus, Koreaceratops hwaseongensis, lived about 103 million years ago during the late Early Cretaceous period. The specimen is ... > full story
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