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  New Understanding to Past Global Warming Events: Hyperthermal Events May Be Triggered by Warming

  April 2, 2012 — A series of global warming events called hyperthermals that occurred more than 50 million years ago had a similar origin to a much larger hyperthermal of the period, the Pelaeocene-Eocene Thermal ... > full story
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  Ancient Egyptian Cotton Unveils Secrets of Domesticated Crop Evolution

  April 2, 2012 — Scientists studying 1,600-year-old cotton from the banks of the Nile have found what they believe is the first evidence that punctuated evolution has occurred in a major crop group within the ... > full story
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  'Lucy' Lived Among Close Cousins: Discovery of Foot Fossil Confirms Two Human Ancestor Species Co-Existed

  March 28, 2012 — Scientists have found a 3.4 million-year-old partial foot fossil in the Afar region of Ethiopia, showing that "Lucy," Australopithecus afarensis, and a much different-looking early hominin lived in ... > full story

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  Fossil Raindrop Impressions Imply Greenhouse Gases Loaded Early Atmosphere

  March 28, 2012 — Evidence from fossilized raindrop impressions from 2.7 billion years ago indicates that an abundance of greenhouse gases most likely caused the warm temperatures on ancient ... > full story
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  DNA Traces Cattle Back to a Small Herd Domesticated Around 10,500 Years Ago

  March 27, 2012 — All cattle are descended from as few as 80 animals that were domesticated from wild ox in the Near East some 10,500 years ago, according to a new genetic ... > full story
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  Ancient Civilizations Reveal Ways to Manage Fisheries for Sustainability

  March 23, 2012 — In the search for sustainability of the ocean's fisheries, solutions can be found in a surprising place: the ancient past. Marine scientists reconstructed fisheries yields over seven centuries of ... > full story
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  The Viking Journey of Mice and Men

  March 19, 2012 — House mice happily live wherever there are humans. When populations of humans migrate the mice often travel with them. New research has used evolutionary techniques on modern day and ancestral mouse ... > full story
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  Mystery Human Fossils Put Spotlight on China

  March 14, 2012 — Fossils from two caves in southwest China have revealed a previously unknown Stone Age people and give a rare glimpse of a recent stage of human evolution with startling implications for the early ... > full story
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  Two New Species of Horned Dinosaur Named

  March 12, 2012 — Two new horned dinosaurs have been named based on fossils collected from Alberta, Canada. The new species, Unescopceratops koppelhusae and Gryphoceratops morrisoni, are from the Leptoceratopsidae ... > full story
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  Ancestor of Biggest Dinosaurs: First Dinosaur Discovered in Spain Dates Back 15 Million Years Earlier Than Thought

  March 12, 2012 — The dinosaur Aragosaurus ischiaticus, discovered 25 years ago in Teruel, is from 15 million years earlier than originally thought. Its new dating means that it was the ancestor of the ... > full story

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