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Oxygen-Free Early Oceans Likely Delayed Rise of Life on Planet
January 10, 2011 — Geologists have found chemical evidence in 2.6-billion-year-old rocks that indicates that Earth's ancient oceans were oxygen-free and contained abundant hydrogen sulfide in some areas. The ... > full story -
New Species of Ancient Flying Reptile Identified on British Columbia Coast
January 10, 2011 — Persistence paid off for a paleontology researcher, who after months of pondering the origins of a fossilized jaw bone, finally identified it as a new species of pterosaur, a flying reptile that ... > full story -
Extinct Insect Completely Reconstructed in 3-D
January 7, 2011 — Entomologists have now "resurrected" the fossil insect Mengea tertiara. Using high resolution micro-computer tomography the anatomy of an extinct insect was completely reconstructed ... > full story -
Ammonites' Last Meal: New Light on Past Marine Food Chains
January 6, 2011 — Scientists have discovered direct evidence of the diet of an important group of Ammonites, which are among the best known fossils. Using synchrotron X-rays, they imaged three fossilized mouths with ... > full story -
Not So Bird-Brained: 3D X-Rays Piece Together the Evolution of Flight from Fossils
January 3, 2011 — Three-dimensional X-ray scanning equipment is being used to help chart the evolution of flight in birds, by digitally reconstructing the size of bird brains using ancient fossils and modern bird ... > full story -
Fossil Finger Bone Yields Genome of a Previously Unknown Human Relative
December 22, 2010 — A 30,000-year-old finger bone found in a cave in southern Siberia came from a young girl who belonged to a previously unknown group of human relatives who may have lived throughout much of Asia. ... > full story -
New Fossil Site in China Shows Long Recovery of Life from the Largest Extinction in Earth's History
December 22, 2010 — A major new fossil site in south-west China has filled in a sizable gap in our understanding of how life on this planet recovered from the greatest mass extinction of all time, according to ... > full story -
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 -
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
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