Fossil News

Posted February 7, 2012:

• Ancient Seagrass Holds Secrets of the Oldest Living Organism on Earth
• Entire Genome of Extinct Human Decoded from Fossil
• Neanderthal Demise Due to Many Influences, Including Cultural Changes

Posted February 6, 2012:

• Fossil Cricket Reveals Jurassic Love Song

Posted February 3, 2012:

• A Battle of the Vampires, 20 Million Years Ago?

Posted January 31, 2012:

• New Species of Ancient Crocodile Discovered; 'Sheildcroc' Was Ancestor of Today's Species
• Ancient DNA Holds Clues to Climate Change Adaptation

Posted January 23, 2012:

• Ancient Domesticated Dog Skull Found in Siberian Cave: 33,000 Years Old
• Ancient Dinosaur Nursery: Oldest Nesting Site Yet Found

Posted January 18, 2012:

• Unusual 'Tulip' Creature Discovered: Lived in the Ocean More Than 500 Million Years Ago

Posted January 17, 2012:

• The Fermented Cereal Beverage of the Sumerians May Not Have Been Beer

Posted January 13, 2012:

• Most Recent European Great Ape Discovered

Posted January 12, 2012:

• New Insights Into an Ancient Mechanism of Mammalian Evolution

Posted January 10, 2012:

• Early Primate Had Transitional Lemur-Like Grooming Claw
• Molecular 'Culprit' in Rise of Planetary Oxygen

Posted January 4, 2012:

• Prehistoric Predators With Supersized Teeth Had Beefier Arm Bones

Posted January 3, 2012:

• Scientists Crack Medieval Bone Code

Posted December 27, 2011:

• New Theory Emerges for Where Some Fish Became Four-Limbed Creatures

Posted December 22, 2011:

• Bacteria's Move from Sea to Land May Have Occurred Much Later Than Thought
• Chinese Fossils Shed Light on Evolutionary Origin of Animals from Single-Cell Ancestors

Posted December 7, 2011:

• World's First Super Predator Had Remarkable Vision

Posted December 6, 2011:

• New Horned Dinosaur Announced Nearly 100 Years After Discovery
• Ancient Meat-Loving Predators Survived for 35 Million Years

Posted November 24, 2011:

• Ancient Environment Found to Drive Marine Biodiversity

Posted November 21, 2011:

• Human, Artificial Intelligence Join Forces to Pinpoint Fossil Locations

Posted November 16, 2011:

• Pristine Reptile Fossil Holds New Information About Aquatic Adaptations

Posted November 15, 2011:

• Fossil Moths Show Their True Colors

Posted November 8, 2011:

• Half-Billion-Year-Old Predator Tracked: Multi-Legged Creature Ruled the Seas
• Hi-Tech Scans Catch Prehistoric Mite Hitching Ride on Spider

Posted November 2, 2011:

• Jawbone Found in England Is from the Earliest Known Modern Human in Northwestern Europe
• 'Saber-Toothed Squirrel': First Known Mammalian Skull from Late Cretaceous in South America
• Analysis Reveals Malaria, Other Diseases as Ancient, Adaptive and Persistent Foes

Posted November 1, 2011:

• 'Zombie' Worms Found in Mediterranean Fossil

Posted October 25, 2011:

• Land Animals, Ecosystems Walloped After Permian Dieoff

Posted October 20, 2011:

• Face-to-Face With an Ancient Human

Posted October 19, 2011:

• New Evidence for the Oldest Oxygen-Breathing Life on Land

Posted October 13, 2011:

• Tiny Fossil Fragment Reveals Giant-but-Ugly Truth: Part of Biggest-Ever Toothed Pterosaur from Dinosaur Era

Posted October 11, 2011:

• Oldest Fossil Rodents in South America Discovered; Find Is 10 Million Years Older and Confirms Animals from Africa
• Worms Among First Animals to Surface After K-T Extinction Event, Study Finds

Posted October 10, 2011:

• Giant 'Kraken' Lair Discovered: Cunning Sea Monster That Preyed on Ichthyosaurs

Posted October 8, 2011:

• Documentary Brings World's Oldest Underwater City Back to Life

Posted October 5, 2011:

• Earliest Psychomyiid Caddisfly Fossils, from 100-Million-Year-Old Burmese Amber
• A New Species of Fossil Silky Lacewing Insects That Lived More Than 120 Million Years Ago

Posted October 4, 2011:

• Lungfish Provides Insight to Life on Land: 'Humans Are Just Modified Fish'
• Across the Atlantic on Flotsam: New Fossil Findings Shed Light on the Origins of the Mysterious Bird Hoatzin

Posted September 30, 2011:

• Reefs Recovered Faster After Mass Extinction Than First Thought

Posted September 26, 2011:

• New Family of Wasps Found in North American Amber, Closest Relatives in Southern Hemisphere

Posted September 22, 2011:

• Asia Was Settled in Multiple Waves of Migration, DNA Study Suggests

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