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Posted April 11, 2008:

• Ancient DNA: Reconstruction Of The Biological History Of A Human Society

Posted April 8, 2008:

• Tiny Bug Found In Grand Canyon Region Cave Suggests Big Biodiversity

Posted April 4, 2008:

• Fossil From Last Common Ancestor Of Neanderthals And Humans Found In Europe, 1.2 Million Years Old

Posted April 3, 2008:

• Pre-Clovis Human DNA Found In 14,300-Year-Old Feces In Oregon Cave Is Oldest In New World

Posted April 2, 2008:

• Discovery Of Oldest Known Traces Of Mineralization Caused By Micro-Organisms
• Scientists Discover 356 Animal Inclusions Trapped In Opaque Amber 100 Million Years Old

Posted April 1, 2008:

• For The Paper Trail Of Life On Mars Or Other Planets, Find Cellulose

Posted March 26, 2008:

• Primitive Mouse-Like Creature May Be Ancestral Mother Of Australia's Unusual Pouched Mammals

Posted March 24, 2008:

• Good Luck Indeed: 53 Million-Year-Old Rabbit's Foot Bones Found

Posted March 21, 2008:

• Upright Walking Began 6 Million Years Ago, Thigh Bone Comparison Suggests
• Early Americans Arrived Thousands of Years Earlier Than Previously Believed

Posted March 20, 2008:

• Rethinking Early Evolution: Earth's Earliest Animal Ecosystem Was Complex And Included Sexual Reproduction
• Cause Of Death Of Russian Baby Mammoth Discovered
• Ancient Reptile Rises from Alberta Oil Sands: Dinosaur-Era Sea Creature Unearthed at Syncrude Mine
• Skulls Of Modern Humans And Ancient Neanderthals Evolved Differently Because Of Chance, Not Natural Selection

Posted March 11, 2008:

• Micronesian Islands Colonized By Small-Bodied Humans

Posted March 10, 2008:

• History Of Life Seen In The Structure Of Transfer RNA

Posted March 9, 2008:

• Biologists Surprised To Find Parochial Bacterial Viruses

Posted March 6, 2008:

• Hobbits May Be Human After All

Posted March 5, 2008:

• Giant Fossil Bats Out Of Africa, 35 Million Years Old

Posted March 4, 2008:

• New Discovery Of 'Old Growth' Crystals Provides New Record Of Planetary Evolution

Posted February 29, 2008:

• Enormous Jurassic Sea Predator, Pliosaur, Discovered In Norway

Posted February 22, 2008:

• Ancient Puzzle Solved In Fossils From Canadian Rockies, Dating To Cambrian Explosion

Posted February 20, 2008:

• Genome Of Marine Organism Tells Of Humans' Unicellular Ancestors

Posted February 19, 2008:

• Giant Frog Jumps Continents, May Have Eaten Baby Dinosaurs

Posted February 16, 2008:

• Ancient Proteins Rebuilt To Reveal Primordial Earth's Temperature

Posted February 14, 2008:

• New Meat-Eating Dinosaur Duo From Sahara Ate Like Hyenas, Sharks

Posted February 13, 2008:

• New Duck-Billed Dinosaur From Mexico Offers Insights Into Ancient Life On West America

Posted February 12, 2008:

• Oldest Australian Crayfish Fossils Provide Missing Evolutionary Link

Posted February 8, 2008:

• Oldest Horseshoe Crab Fossil Found, 445 Million Years Old
• Did Birds Originate When Dinosaurs Went Extinct, Or Have They Been Around Far Longer?

Posted February 3, 2008:

• Archaeologist 'Strikes Gold' With Finds Of Ancient Nasca Iron Ore Mine In Peru

Posted January 15, 2008:

• Rapid Growth, Early Maturity Meant Teen Pregnancy For Dinosaurs

Posted January 10, 2008:

• 480-Million-Year-Old Fossil Sheds Light On 150-Year-Old Paleontological Mystery

Posted January 4, 2008:

• Two Explosive Evolutionary Events Shaped Early History Of Multicellular Life

Posted January 2, 2008:

• Fresh Fossil Evidence Of Eye Forerunner Uncovered

Posted December 26, 2007:

• Will Beetles Inherit The Earth? Evolutionary Study Reveals Their Long-Term Success
• Where And Why Humans Made Skates Out Of Animal Bones

Posted December 21, 2007:

• Whales Descended From Tiny Deer-Like Ancestors

Posted December 17, 2007:

• Student Identifies Enormous New Dinosaur

Posted December 15, 2007:

• Losses Of Long-Established Genes Contribute To Human Evolution

Posted December 14, 2007:

• Andean Highlands In Chile Yield Ancient South American Armored Mammal Fossil
• Primitive Early Relative Of Armadillos Helps Rewrite Evolutionary Family Tree

Posted December 8, 2007:

• Ancient Blood Found On Sculptures From Kingdom Of Mali
• Most Ancient Case Of Tuberculosis Found In 500,000-Year-Old Human; Points To Modern Health Issues

Posted December 5, 2007:

• Neanderthal Children Grew Up Fast

Posted December 4, 2007:

• Fossils Excavated From Bahamian Blue Hole May Give Clues Of Early Life

Posted December 3, 2007:

• Dinosaur Mummy Found With Fossilized Skin And Soft Tissues

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