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Pristine Reptile Fossil Holds New Information About Aquatic Adaptations
November 16, 2011 — Extinct animals hide their secrets well, but an exceptionally well-preserved fossil of an aquatic reptile, with traces of soft tissue present, is providing scientists a new window into the behavior ... > full story -
Fossil Moths Show Their True Colors
November 15, 2011 — The brightest hues in nature are produced by tiny patterns in, say, feathers or scales rather than pigments. These so-called "structural colors" are widespread, giving opals their fire, people their ... > full story -
Half-Billion-Year-Old Predator Tracked: Multi-Legged Creature Ruled the Seas
November 8, 2011 — Researchers in Canada have followed fossilized footprints to a multi-legged predator that ruled the seas of the Cambrian period about half a billion years ... > full story -
Hi-Tech Scans Catch Prehistoric Mite Hitching Ride on Spider
November 8, 2011 — Scientists have produced amazing three-dimensional images of a prehistoric mite as it hitched a ride on the back of a 50-million-year-old spider. At just 176 micrometres long and barely visible to ... > full story -
Jawbone Found in England Is from the Earliest Known Modern Human in Northwestern Europe
November 2, 2011 — A piece of jawbone excavated from a prehistoric cave in England is the earliest evidence for modern humans in Europe, according to an international science team. New dating of the bone, which shows ... > full storyMore: -
'Saber-Toothed Squirrel': First Known Mammalian Skull from Late Cretaceous in South America
November 2, 2011 — Paleontologists have discovered two skulls from the first known mammal of the early Late Cretaceous period of South America. The fossils break a roughly 60 million-year gap in the currently known ... > full story -
Analysis Reveals Malaria, Other Diseases as Ancient, Adaptive and Persistent Foes
November 2, 2011 — One of the most comprehensive analyses yet done of the ancient history of insect-borne disease concludes for the first time that malaria is not only native to the New World, but it has been present ... > full story -
'Zombie' Worms Found in Mediterranean Fossil
November 1, 2011 — Traces of bizarre, bone-eating 'zombie' worms have been found on a 3-million-year-old fossil whale bone from Tuscany in Italy. It is the first time the genus Osedax has been found in the ... > full story -
Land Animals, Ecosystems Walloped After Permian Dieoff
October 25, 2011 — Researchers have concluded the mass extinction that ended the Permian Period was disastrous for land-based animals. In a specimen-by-specimen analysis, the scientists say species were reduced to a ... > full story -
Face-to-Face With an Ancient Human
October 20, 2011 — A reconstruction based on the skull of Norway’s best-preserved Stone Age skeleton makes it possible to study the features of a boy who lived outside Stavanger 7,500 years ... > full story -
New Evidence for the Oldest Oxygen-Breathing Life on Land
October 19, 2011 — New research shows the first evidence that oxygen-breathing bacteria occupied and thrived on land 100 million years earlier than previously ... > full storyMore: -
Tiny Fossil Fragment Reveals Giant-but-Ugly Truth: Part of Biggest-Ever Toothed Pterosaur from Dinosaur Era
October 13, 2011 — New research has identified a small fossil fragment at the Natural History Museum, London as being part of a giant pterosaur -- setting a new upper limit for the size of winged and toothed ... > full story
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