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Jurassic Period Mammal Teeth Found -- Prevailing Theories Challenged
September 3, 1999 — Paleontologists have discovered three tiny teeth embedded in a piece of lower jawbone from a small Jurassic period mammal on the island of Madagascar, evidence that some of our mammalian ancestors ... > full story -
Primate Genus Sheds Light On Great Ape And Human Origins
August 31, 1999 — A team of scientists has set aside an entire new genus within the family of primates that includes great apes and humans after discovering an exquisitely preserved 15 million year old partial ... > full story -
Seafood Was Brain Food, Says Researcher
August 27, 1999 — The first humans may have been beach-dwellers foraging for shellfish, not grassland hunter-gatherers, says a University of Toronto ... > full story -
Geologists At UNC-CH Discover State's "Most Spectacular" Fossils
August 18, 1999 — When Brian Coffey, a former University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill student, planned a field trip for an otherwise routine geology honors project in 1995, he had no idea he'd help make ... > full story -
Dinosaur Fossils Reveal Evolution's Big Picture, Says Paleontologist
June 25, 1999 — Dinosaur fossils are providing the answers to some of scientists' biggest questions about evolution, according to paleontologist Paul Sereno, who has assembled the most up-to-date picture yet of ... > full story -
Discovery Of New Bird Species In China, Oldest Beak Shows Evolution Complexity
June 17, 1999 — Working together on fossilized remains, Chinese and U.S. researchers have discovered a previously unknown species of primitive bird, a finding that offers new evidence that early bird evolution was ... > full story -
Theropods Caught In Their Tracks -- Fossil Footprints Show Foot-Movement Similarity In Dinosaurs And Birds
May 14, 1999 — A new study of theropod dinosaur prints shows that foot motions were preserved in three dimensions when the meat eaters slopped through mud 210 million years ago. Although the footprints are similar ... > full story -
Archeologists Find Milder Arctic Climate May Have Aided Aleutian Settlement
April 28, 1999 — A milder Arctic climate more than 3,000 years ago may have aided humans to cross the Bering Sea from Alaska and migrate into the remote Aleutian Island chain, according to preliminary findings by a ... > full story -
New Species Of Human Ancestor
April 23, 1999 — Two-and-a-half-million-year-old cranial and tooth remains found in Ethiopia belong to a previously unknown hominid that may have been the immediate predecessor of humans, according to a team of ... > full story -
Earliest Modern Tree Lived 360-345 Million Years Ago
April 22, 1999 — Archaeopteris, an extinct tree that made up most of the forests across the earth in the Late Devonian period, had the same structure as modern trees, report three scientists in the April 22, 1999 ... > full story -
New Findings On Primitive Shark Contradicts Current View Of Jaw Evolution
April 12, 1999 — Shedding new light on the evolutionary origins of the jaw, John Maisey, a curator in the Department of Vertebrate Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History, disclosed the first detailed ... > full story -
Flatworms Are Oldest Living Ancestors To Those Of Us With Right And Left Sides, Researchers Report In Science
March 22, 1999 — A team of scientists from Spain and the UK has determined that a certain curiously primitive group of flatworms are the oldest living ancestors to all "bilateral" animals-that is, those with ... > full story
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