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Posted November 27, 2008:

• How Did Turtles Get Their Shells? Oldest Known Turtle Fossil, 220 Million Years Old, Give Clues

Posted November 26, 2008:

• Jurassic Turtles Could Swim

Posted November 25, 2008:

• Deep Heat Solution To 500-million Year Fossil Mystery
• Climate Change Wiped Out Cave Bears 13 Millennia Earlier Than Thought

Posted November 21, 2008:

• Discovery Of Giant Roaming Deep Sea Protist Provides New Perspective On Animal Evolution

Posted November 14, 2008:

• Pelvis Dated To 1.2 Million Years Ago Shows Ancestors May Have Been Born With Big Heads
• Marine Plankton Found In Amber

Posted November 1, 2008:

• Last Of His Kind? Researchers Complete Mitochondrial Genome Of Ancient Mummy, The Tyrolean Iceman

Posted October 31, 2008:

• Extinct Sabertooth Cats Were Social, Found Strength In Numbers, Study Shows
• 'Living Fossil' Tree Contains Genetic Imprints Of Rain Forests Under Climate Change

Posted October 30, 2008:

• Significant Fossil Discovery In Utah Shows Land Plants Of 200 Million Years Ago

Posted October 24, 2008:

• Tiny Juvenile Dinosaur Fossil Sheds Light On Evolution Of Plant Eaters

Posted October 23, 2008:

• 'Magnetic Death Star' Fossils: Earlier Global Warming Produced A Whole New Form Of Life

Posted October 22, 2008:

• Ancient Bone Tool Sheds Light On Prehistoric Midwest

Posted October 20, 2008:

• New Fossil Reveals Primates Lingered In Texas

Posted October 19, 2008:

• Genetic-based Human Diseases Are An Ancient Evolutionary Legacy, Research Suggests

Posted October 15, 2008:

• Details Of Evolutionary Transition From Fish To Land Animals Revealed
• World's Oldest Fossil Impression Of Flying Insect Discovered: Found In Suburban Strip Mall

Posted October 13, 2008:

• Unique Fossils Capture ‘Cambrian Migration’

Posted October 6, 2008:

• Earliest Animal Footprints Ever Found Show Animals Walking 30 Million Years Earlier Than Previously Thought

Posted October 2, 2008:

• Canada's Shores Saved Animals From Devastating Climate Change 252 Million Years Ago

Posted September 30, 2008:

• Carbonate-hosted Avalon-type Fossils In Arctic Siberia

Posted September 27, 2008:

• Mother Of A Goose! Giant Ocean-going Geese With Bony-teeth Once Roamed Across SE England

Posted September 25, 2008:

• America's Smallest Dinosaur Uncovered

Posted September 16, 2008:

• New Ant Species Discovered In The Amazon Likely Represents Oldest Living Lineage Of Ants

Posted September 12, 2008:

• My, What Big Teeth You Had! Extinct Species Had Huge Teeth On Roof Of Mouth

Posted September 10, 2008:

• Oxygen Theory Of Mass Extinction Questioned By New Research Findings

Posted September 8, 2008:

• Trichoplax Genome Sequenced: 'Rosetta Stone' For Understanding Evolution

Posted September 3, 2008:

• Oldest Gecko Fossil Ever Found, Entombed In Amber

Posted August 27, 2008:

• First Prehistoric Pregnant Turtle And Nest Of Eggs Discovered In Southern Alberta

Posted August 15, 2008:

• Stone Age Graveyard Reveals Lifestyles Of A 'Green Sahara'

Posted August 6, 2008:

• Antarctic Fossils Paint Picture Of Much Warmer Continent

Posted August 5, 2008:

• Little Teeth Suggest Big Jump In Primate Timeline

Posted August 1, 2008:

• Cold And Ice, Not Heat, Episodically Gripped Tropical Regions 300 Million Years Ago

Posted July 31, 2008:

• Isthmus Of Panama Formed As Result Of Plate Tectonics, Study Finds

Posted July 30, 2008:

• 'Chicken And Chips' Theory Of Pacific Migration

Posted July 29, 2008:

• Piecing Together An Extinct Lemur, Large As A Big Baboon

Posted July 28, 2008:

• Explosion In Marine Biodiversity Explained By Climate Change

Posted July 24, 2008:

• Predynastic Human Presence Discovered By Core Drilling At The Northern Nile Delta Coast, Egypt

Posted July 23, 2008:

• Unique Fossil Discovery Shows Antarctic Was Once Much Warmer
• New Evidence Of Battle Between Humans And Ancient Virus

Posted July 21, 2008:

• Archaeologists Trace Early Irrigation Farming In Ancient Yemen

Posted July 18, 2008:

• Glimpses Of Earliest Forms Of Life On Earth: Remnant Of Ancient 'RNA World' Discovered

Posted July 16, 2008:

• Europe's Ancestors: Cro-Magnon 28,000 Years Old Had DNA Like Modern Humans

Posted July 15, 2008:

• Excavated Jericho Bones May Help Israeli-Palestinian-German Team Combat Tuberculosis

Posted July 14, 2008:

• Disproving Conventional Wisdom On Diversity Of Marine Fossils And Extinction Rates

Posted July 10, 2008:

• Flatfish Fossils Fill In Evolutionary Missing Link

Posted July 9, 2008:

• Big Brains Arose Twice In Higher Primates

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