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Oldest Fossil Rodents in South America Discovered; Find Is 10 Million Years Older and Confirms Animals from Africa
October 11, 2011 — An international team of researchers have found the oldest rodent fossils in South America. The find confirms the animals origin in Africa and contradicts the conclusion that they spread from south ... > full story -
Worms Among First Animals to Surface After K-T Extinction Event, Study Finds
October 11, 2011 — A new study of sediments laid down shortly after an asteroid plowed into the Gulf of Mexico 65.5 million years ago, an event that is linked to widespread global extinctions including the demise of ... > full story -
Giant 'Kraken' Lair Discovered: Cunning Sea Monster That Preyed on Ichthyosaurs
October 10, 2011 — Long before whales, the oceans of Earth were roamed by a very different kind of air-breathing leviathan. Snaggle-toothed ichthyosaurs larger than school buses swam at the top of the Triassic Period ... > full story -
Documentary Brings World's Oldest Underwater City Back to Life
October 8, 2011 — Movie industry computer graphics and the very latest digital marine technology have brought the world's oldest submerged city back to life in a new documentary. Just a few metres under the sea, off ... > full story -
Earliest Psychomyiid Caddisfly Fossils, from 100-Million-Year-Old Burmese Amber
October 5, 2011 — Researchers have discovered the earliest known fossil caddisflies, of the family Psychomyiidae, preserved in Burmese ... > full story -
A New Species of Fossil Silky Lacewing Insects That Lived More Than 120 Million Years Ago
October 5, 2011 — A team of researchers has discovered a remarkable silky lacewing insect from the Mesozoic of ... > full story -
Lungfish Provides Insight to Life on Land: 'Humans Are Just Modified Fish'
October 4, 2011 — A study into the muscle development of several different fish has given insights into the genetic leap that set the scene for the evolution of hind legs in terrestrial animals. This innovation gave ... > full story -
Across the Atlantic on Flotsam: New Fossil Findings Shed Light on the Origins of the Mysterious Bird Hoatzin
October 4, 2011 — Scientists have examined fossil relatives of the South American Hoatzin (Opisthocomus hoazin), which point to African origins for the enigmatic ... > full story -
Reefs Recovered Faster After Mass Extinction Than First Thought
September 30, 2011 — Metazoan-dominated reefs only took 1.5 million years to recover after the largest species extinction 252 million years ago, paleontologists have found, based on fossils from the southwestern United ... > full storyMore: -
New Family of Wasps Found in North American Amber, Closest Relatives in Southern Hemisphere
September 26, 2011 — After being alerted to two unusual wasps in amber found in New Jersey, a researcher in South Africa has determined that they represent a new family of wasps, but with its closest relatives found in ... > full story -
Asia Was Settled in Multiple Waves of Migration, DNA Study Suggests
September 22, 2011 — Researchers studying DNA patterns from modern and archaic humans has found that the Denisovans, a recently discovered hominin group, contributed genes to several populations in Asia and that modern ... > full storyMore: -
Not Just Skin Deep: CT Study of Early Humans Reveals Evolutionary Relationships
September 19, 2011 — CT scans of fossil skull fragments may help researchers settle a long-standing debate about the evolution of Africa's Australopithecus, a key ancestor of modern humans that died out some 1.4 million ... > full story
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