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Crown Suggests Queen Arsinoë II Ruled Ancient Egypt as Female Pharaoh
November 28, 2010 — A unique queen's crown with ancient symbols combined with a new method of studying status in Egyptian reliefs forms the basis for a re-interpretation of historical developments in Egypt in the period ... > full story -
Ancient Insects Preferred Warmer Climates
November 23, 2010 — For millions of years, insects and plants have coevolved -- leaf-eaters adapting to the modifications of their hosts and plants changing to protect themselves from herbivory. The abundance and ... > full story -
Researchers Kick-Start Ancient DNA
November 22, 2010 — Researchers recently revived ancient bacteria trapped for thousands of years in water droplets embedded in salt ... > full story -
Paleovirology Expanded: Non-Retroviral Virus Fragments Found in Animal Genomes
November 18, 2010 — Understanding the evolution of life-threatening viruses like influenza, Ebola and dengue fever, could help us to minimize their impact. New research points the way to a fossil record of viruses that ... > full story -
Link Between Ancient Lizard Fossil in Africa and Today's Komodo Dragon in Indonesia
November 18, 2010 — Researchers have unearthed a mysterious link between bones of an ancient lizard found in Africa and the biggest, baddest modern-day lizard of them all, the Komodo dragon, half a world away in ... > full story -
Upending Conventional Wisdom, Certain Virus Families Are Ancient
November 16, 2010 — Certain families of single-stranded DNA virus are more than 40 to 50 million years old, according to new research. The investigators found remnants of circoviruses and parvoviruses in the genomes of ... > full story -
Synchrotron Reveals Human Children Outpaced Neanderthals by Slowing Down
November 15, 2010 — Human childhood is considerably longer than chimpanzees, our closest-living ape relatives. A multinational team of specialists, applied cutting-edge synchrotron X-ray imaging to resolve microscopic ... > full story -
Molecular Fossil: Crystal Structure Shows How RNA, One of Biology's Oldest Catalysts, Is Made
November 14, 2010 — In today's world of sophisticated organisms proteins are the stars. But long, long ago ribonucleic acid (RNA) reigned supreme. Now researchers have produced an atomic picture that shows how two of ... > full story -
Oldest Dinosaur Embryos Give Insights Into Infancy and Growth
November 11, 2010 — After sitting in collections for nearly 30 years, some remarkably well-preserved dinosaur eggs and their contents are offering new insights into the infancy and growth of early dinosaurs. They ... > full story -
Cambrian Explosion: New Timeline for Appearances of Skeletal Animals in Fossil Record
November 10, 2010 — Beginning around 542 million years ago, a profusion of animals with shells and skeletons began to appear in the fossil record. So many life forms appeared during this time that it is often referred ... > full story -
Oldest Fossilized Shrimp: Geologists Study Rare Well-Preserved Creature Showing Muscles
November 9, 2010 — Geologists report on the oldest fossil shrimp known to date. The creature in stone is as much as 360 million years old and was found in ... > full story -
DNA Reveals Origins of First European Farmers
November 9, 2010 — A team of international researchers has resolved the longstanding issue of the origins of the people who introduced farming to Europe some 8,000 years ago. A detailed genetic study of one of the ... > full story
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