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Posted March 13, 2007:

• Caribbean Extinctions Occurred Two Million Years After Apparent Cause
• Pig Study Forces Rethink Of Pacific Colonisation

Posted March 8, 2007:

• Despite Their Heft, Many Dinosaurs Had Surprisingly Tiny Genomes

Posted March 5, 2007:

• Scientist Discovers New Horned Dinosaur Genus

Posted March 1, 2007:

• Ancient Retrovirus Is Resurrected

Posted February 25, 2007:

• DNA Analysis Reveals Rapid Population Shift Among Pleistocene Cave Bears

Posted February 19, 2007:

• Hunting Martian Fossils Best Bet For Locating Mars Life, Says Researcher

Posted February 14, 2007:

• New DNA Method Helps Explain Extinction Of Woolly Mammoth, Other Ice Age Mammals

Posted February 12, 2007:

• Mummy's Amazing American Maize

Posted February 8, 2007:

• Fitness Has Fallen Since The Days Of Ancient Greece
• Largest North America Climate Change In 65 Million Years, Study Shows

Posted February 6, 2007:

• World's Oldest Rocks Show How Earth May Have Dodged Frozen Fate Of Mars

Posted January 24, 2007:

• 'Terror Bird' Arrived In North America Before Land Bridge, Study Finds

Posted January 23, 2007:

• Who Laid The First Egg? Scientists Closer To Linking Embryos Of Earth's First Animals And Their Adult Form
• Paleontologists Discover Most Primitive Primate Skeleton

Posted January 18, 2007:

• Toward More Effective Paleolgenetic Analysis

Posted January 16, 2007:

• 40,000-Year-Old Skull Shows Both Modern Human And Neandertal Traits

Posted January 15, 2007:

• Rare Plant From Dinosaur Age

Posted January 12, 2007:

• 'Out Of Africa' Theory Boost: Skull Dating Suggests Modern Humans Evolved In Africa

Posted January 11, 2007:

• Homer's Ithaca Possibly Found Thanks To New Geologic Research

Posted January 5, 2007:

• A Bumpy Shift From Ice House To Greenhouse

Posted December 22, 2006:

• Giant Sauropod Dinosaur Found In Spain

Posted December 21, 2006:

• Oldest Animal Fossils May Have Been Bacteria

Posted December 20, 2006:

• History-Hunting Geneticists Can Still Follow Familiar Trail

Posted December 19, 2006:

• Fossil Discovery Turns Scientific Theory On Its Head

Posted December 18, 2006:

• Small Furry Mammal Was Capable Of Gliding Flight Possibly Before Birds

Posted December 15, 2006:

• Dental Crowns Reveal The Diet Of A Species

Posted December 14, 2006:

• Two Studies On Bee Evolution Reveal Surprises
• Tiny Bones Rewrite Textbooks: First New Zealand Land Mammal Fossil

Posted December 11, 2006:

• Volcanic Blast Likely Killed And Preserved Juvenile Fossil Plesiosaur Found In Antarctica

Posted December 10, 2006:

• Solving Darwin's Dilemma: Oxygen May Be The Clue To First Appearance Of Large Animals

Posted December 8, 2006:

• Ancient Ape Ruled Out Of Man's Ancestral Line

Posted December 7, 2006:

• Evolution Of The Penis Worm: Research Reveals Embryos More Than Half A Billion Years Old
• Ancient Climate Change May Portend Toasty Future

Posted November 29, 2006:

• Ancient Predator Had Strongest Bite Of Any Fish, Rivaling Bite Of Large Alligators And T. Rex
• Lessons Learned From Drought Deaths 40,000 Years Ago

Posted November 28, 2006:

• Radiologists Attempt To Solve Mystery Of Tut's Demise

Posted November 23, 2006:

• 'Nymph Of The Sea' Reveals Remarkable Brood

Posted November 20, 2006:

• Origins Of Life: New Approach Helps Expand Study Of Living Fossils

Posted November 16, 2006:

• Neanderthal Genome Sequencing Yields Surprising Results And Opens A New Door To Future Studies

Posted November 8, 2006:

• Spectacular Dinosaur Skull Comes Back To Alberta

Posted November 6, 2006:

• Fossil Is Missing Link In Elephant Lineage
• More Human-Neandertal Mixing Evidence Uncovered

Posted November 4, 2006:

• Fossils Of Ancient Sea Monster Found In Montana

Posted November 1, 2006:

• Shedding Light On The Darkening Of Ancient Pompeii's Paintings

Posted October 26, 2006:

• Scientists Find Lamprey A 'Living Fossil': 360 Million-Year-Old Fish Hasn't Evolved Much
• Research Discovers Oldest Bee, Evolutionary Link
• Appalachian Mountains, Carbon Dioxide Caused Long-Ago Global Cooling

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