Fossil News

Posted May 5, 2006:

• Man May Have Caused Pre-Historic Extinctions

Posted May 3, 2006:

• Mobile DNA Part Of Evolution's Toolbox

Posted April 26, 2006:

• 'Banana-Jawed' Fossil Mammal Linked To Rare Sound-Producing Skill

Posted April 25, 2006:

• The World's Deepest Dinosaur Finding -- 2256 Metres Below The Seabed

Posted April 21, 2006:

• Ancient DNA Provides Clues To The Evolution Of Social Behavior

Posted April 18, 2006:

• Carbon Cycle Was Already Disrupted Millions Of Years Ago

Posted April 12, 2006:

• Hominid Fossils From Ethiopia Link Ape-Men To More Distant Human Ancestors
• Findings Identify How Preservation Distorts History Of Life On Earth

Posted April 7, 2006:

• Ancient Ants Arose 140-168 Million Years Ago; Insects Needed Flowering Plants To Flourish

Posted April 6, 2006:

• Evolution Of 'Irreducible Complexity' Explained
• Newly Found Species Fills Evolutionary Gap Between Fish And Land Animals

Posted April 2, 2006:

• Embryos Tell Story Of Earth's Earliest Animals

Posted March 8, 2006:

• Early Land Animals Could Walk And Run Like Mammals, New Study Finds

Posted March 6, 2006:

• Smallest Triceratops Skull Ever Found Provides Clues To Dinosaur's Growth

Posted March 1, 2006:

• Amber Reveals Ecology Of 30 Million Year Old Spiders

Posted February 28, 2006:

• Life, The Remake

Posted February 24, 2006:

• Scientists Discover First Swimming Mammal From The Jurassic
• Secrets Of The Deep May Hold Clue To Ancient Global Warming

Posted February 20, 2006:

• Oceans May Soon Be More Corrosive Than When The Dinosaurs Died
• New Fossil Find In New Mexico Named After Artist Georgia O'Keeffe
• Studies Of Ancient Climates Suggest Earth Is Now On A Fast Track To Global Warming
• Next Good Dinosaur News Likely To Come From Small Packages

Posted February 19, 2006:

• Phytoplankton Bounce Back From Abrupt Climate Change

Posted February 9, 2006:

• Scientists Discover Skeletons Of The Oldest Tyrannosaur

Posted February 2, 2006:

• Scientists See And Analyze 650-Million-Year-Old Fossils Inside Rocks In Three Dimensions
• Evolution Mystery: Spider Venom And Bacteria Share Same Toxin

Posted January 23, 2006:

• Typhoid Fever Led To The Fall Of Athens

Posted January 18, 2006:

• Study Finds Evolution Doesn't Always Favor Bigger Animals

Posted January 6, 2006:

• Redating Of The Latest Neandertals In Europe

Posted December 27, 2005:

• Dwarfs Commanded Respect In Ancient Egypt

Posted December 22, 2005:

• Scientists Narrow The Time Limits For The Human And Chimpanzee Split

Posted December 21, 2005:

• Scientists Sequence DNA Of Woolly Mammoth

Posted December 18, 2005:

• Bio-Archaeologists Pinpoint Oldest Northern European Human Activity

Posted December 14, 2005:

• Ancient Humans Brought Bottle Gourds To The Americas From Asia

Posted November 24, 2005:

• Earliest Animals Had Human-Like Genes

Posted November 17, 2005:

• Early Earth Likely Had Continents, Was Habitable, According To New Study

Posted November 12, 2005:

• Giant Ape Lived Alongside Humans

Posted November 11, 2005:

• Rapid Warming Caused Vegetation Changes

Posted November 10, 2005:

• Fossil Find: 'Godzilla' Crocodile Had Head Of A Dinosaur, Fins Like A Fish

Posted October 18, 2005:

• U. Of Colorado Researcher Identifies Tracks Of Swimming Dinosaur In Wyoming

Posted October 13, 2005:

• Ancient Anthropoid Origins Discovered In Africa
• Newly Discovered Birdlike Dinosaur Is Oldest Raptor Ever Found In South America
• Prehistoric Global Warming May Have Contributed To Fossil Preservation

Posted October 10, 2005:

• Scientists Say No Evidence Exists That Therapod Dinosaurs Evolved Into Birds

Posted October 6, 2005:

• Muskox Suffered Loss Of Genetic Diversity At Pleistocene/Holocene Transition

Posted September 30, 2005:

• Spider Blood Found In 20 Million Year Old Fossil

Posted September 28, 2005:

• How A Zebra Lost Its Stripes: Rapid Evolution Of The Quagga

Posted September 19, 2005:

• Morphology Of Fossil Salamanders Reflects Climate Change

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