Fossil News

Posted September 8, 2011:

• 800,000 Years of Abrupt Climate Variability: Earth's Climate Is Capable of Very Rapid Transitions

Posted September 6, 2011:

• Ancient Humans Were Mixing It Up: Anatomically Modern Humans Interbred With More Archaic Hominin Forms While in Africa

Posted September 2, 2011:

• Woolly Rhino Fossil Discovery in Tibet Provides Important Clues to Evolution of Ice Age Giants

Posted September 1, 2011:

• Humans Shaped Stone Axes 1.8 Million Years Ago: Advanced Tool-Making Methods Pushed Back in Time

Posted August 29, 2011:

• Black Death Bacterium Identified: Genetic Analysis of Medieval Plague Skeletons Shows Presence of Yersinia Pestis Bacteria
• Ancient Clams Yield New Information About Greenhouse Effect on Climate

Posted August 25, 2011:

• Interbreeding Between Modern Humans and Evolutionary Cousins Gave Healthy Immune System Boost to Human Genome, Study Finds

Posted August 24, 2011:

• Discovery of a 160-Million-Year-Old Fossil Represents a New Milestone in Early Mammal Evolution
• Ancient 'Daddy Long Legs' Revealed in 3-D Models

Posted August 23, 2011:

• Ancient Wild Horses Help Unlock Past
• Ancient Whale Skulls and Directional Hearing: A Twisted Tale

Posted August 22, 2011:

• Oldest Fossils on Earth Discovered

Posted August 17, 2011:

• Getting Inside the Mind (and Up the Nose) of Our Ancient Ancestors
• Most Primitive Living Eel Discovered: Creating a New Species, Genus and Family of Animal

Posted August 15, 2011:

• Mysterious Fossils Provide New Clues to Insect Evolution

Posted August 12, 2011:

• Fossilized Pregnant Plesiosaur: 78-Million-Year-Old Fossils of Adult and Its Embryo Provide First Evidence of Live Birth

Posted August 10, 2011:

• Polar Dinosaur Tracks Open New Trail to Past

Posted August 8, 2011:

• Endangered River Turtle's Genes Reveal Ancient Influence of Maya Indians
• 'Amino Acid Time Capsule': New Way to Date the Past

Posted August 6, 2011:

• What Shapes a Bone? Diet and Genetics Dictate Adult Jaw Shape

Posted August 4, 2011:

• Fossils of Forest Rodents Found in Highland Desert

Posted August 3, 2011:

• Six Million Years of Savanna: Grasslands, Wooded Grasslands Accompanied Human Evolution

Posted August 1, 2011:

• New Duck-Billed Dinosaur Gives Scientists Clues to Evolution of Head Ornamentation and Provinciality

Posted July 21, 2011:

• Prehistoric Crocodile Terminonaris Was Texas Native, Fossil Suggests

Posted July 16, 2011:

• Fossil Forensics Reveals How Wasps Populated Rotting Dinosaur Eggs

Posted July 13, 2011:

• Last Dinosaur Before Mass Extinction Discovered

Posted July 11, 2011:

• Genetic Switch for Limbs and Digits Found in Primitive Fish: Before Animals First Walked on Land, Fish Carried Gene Program for Limbs

Posted July 6, 2011:

• How Hot Did Earth Get in the Past? Team of Scientists Uncovers New Information

Posted June 30, 2011:

• X-Rays Reveal Patterns in the Plumage of the First Birds
• New Fossils Demonstrate That Powerful Eyes Evolved in a Twinkling
• Human Ancestor Older Than Previously Thought; Finding Offers New Insights Into Evolution
• Unearthing the Appearance of Ancient Animals: X-Ray Technique for Determining Fossil Pigmentation Patterns
• Pigment Patterns from the Prehistoric Past

Posted June 29, 2011:

• Domed Dinosaur Was King of the Head Butt

Posted June 26, 2011:

• Ancient Species of Mayfly Had Short, Tragic Life

Posted June 22, 2011:

• Oldest Eurasian Hominoids Lived in Swabia: Molar Tooth Dated at 17 Million Years Old

Posted June 21, 2011:

• Earliest Art in the Americas: Ice Age Image of Mammoth or Mastodon Found in Florida

Posted June 16, 2011:

• Life After 'Snowball Earth': New Fossils Suggest Rapid Recovery of Life After Global Freeze

Posted June 4, 2011:

• Protein from Bones of 600,000-Year-Old Mammoth Extracted Successfully

Posted May 31, 2011:

• Researchers Solve Mammoth Evolutionary Puzzle: The Woollies Weren't Picky, Happy to Interbreed

Posted May 26, 2011:

• Fossil of Giant Ancient Sea Predator Discovered
• Unique Canine Tooth from 'Peking Man' Found in Swedish Museum Collection

Posted May 25, 2011:

• Birch Mouse Ancestor Discovered in Inner Mongolia Is New Species of Rare 'Living Fossil'

Posted May 23, 2011:

• Mummies Tell History of a 'Modern' Plague
• South America's Oldest Textiles Identified With Carbon Dating
• Oceanic Land Crab Extinction Linked to Colonization of Hawaii

Posted May 21, 2011:

• Young Graphite in Old Rocks Challenges the Earliest Signs of Life

Posted May 20, 2011:

• Archaeologists Uncover Oldest Mine in the Americas

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