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Posted August 31, 2009:

• Coralline Algae In The Mediterranean Lost Their Tropical Element Between 5 And 7 Million Years Ago

Posted August 25, 2009:

• Gaping Gila Monsters, Buzzing Insects, Clambering Ungulates: New Finds From Germany's Messel Pit

Posted August 24, 2009:

• Chinese Culture At The Crossroads: Prehistoric Archaeological Findings Highlighted In New Research

Posted August 14, 2009:

• London's Earliest Timber Structure Found During Belmarsh Prison Dig

Posted August 12, 2009:

• When Did Humans Return After Last Ice Age?

Posted August 11, 2009:

• Bipedal Humans Came Down From The Trees, Not Up From The Ground

Posted August 10, 2009:

• Climate-Caused Biodiversity Booms And Busts In Ancient Plants And Mammals

Posted August 7, 2009:

• Chicken-Hearted Tyrants: Predatory Dinosaurs As Baby Killers

Posted August 6, 2009:

• Fossil Tooth Remains Of Extinct Rodent Species Discovered: Oldest Find Within This Genus

Posted August 5, 2009:

• Scary Ancient 'Spiders' Revealed In 3D Models, With New Imaging Technique

Posted August 2, 2009:

• Small Fossils Provide Key Clues For Interpreting Environmental Changes

Posted July 31, 2009:

• Reexamination Of T. Rex Verifies Disputed Biochemical Remains

Posted July 30, 2009:

• Discovery Of Elephants' Oldest Known Relative

Posted July 29, 2009:

• First Vertebrate To Live In Trees Described

Posted July 28, 2009:

• Earliest Animals Lived In A Lake Environment, Research Shows
• Major Arctic Sea-Ice Formed Earlier Than Thought

Posted July 24, 2009:

• DNA Of Ancient Lost Barley Could Help Modern Crops Cope With Water Stress

Posted July 20, 2009:

• Fossilized Dung Balls Reveal Secret Ecology Of Lost World

Posted July 16, 2009:

• Skull Of Crocodile 100 Million Years Old Unearthed

Posted July 14, 2009:

• Sharks: Missing Piece Of Fossil Puzzle Found

Posted July 12, 2009:

• Seals Quickly Respond To Gain And Loss Of Habitat Under Climate Change

Posted July 11, 2009:

• Down Under Dinosaur Burrow Discovery Provides Climate Change Clues

Posted July 7, 2009:

• Ferns Took To The Trees And Thrived During Cretaceous Period

Posted July 3, 2009:

• Triple Fossil Find Puts Australia Back On The Dinosaur Map

Posted July 2, 2009:

• Giant Moa Rebuilt Using Ancient DNA From Prehistoric Feathers
• Biogenic Origin For Earth's Oldest Putative Microfossils

Posted July 1, 2009:

• New Fossil Primate Suggests Common Asian Ancestor, Challenges Primates Such As 'Ida'

Posted June 23, 2009:

• 54-Million-Year-Old Skull Reveals Early Evolution Of Primate Brains

Posted June 19, 2009:

• Sudden Collapse In Ancient Biodiversity: Was Global Warming The Culprit?
• Size Did Matter: Evidence Of Giant Sperm Found In Microfossils

Posted June 18, 2009:

• Humans More Related To Orangutans Than Chimps, Study Suggests

Posted June 17, 2009:

• Ancient Ice Age, Once Regarded As Brief 'Blip' Found To Have Lasted For 30 Million Years
• Sands Of Gobi Desert Yield New Species Of Nut-Cracking Dinosaur
• Fossil Teeth Of Three-Toed Browsing Horse Found In Panama Canal Earthworks

Posted June 16, 2009:

• Sediment Yields Climate Record For Past Half-Million Years

Posted June 10, 2009:

• Fossil Bone Bed Helps Reconstruct Life Along California's Ancient Coastline

Posted June 1, 2009:

• High Arctic Mammals Wintered In Darkness 53 Million Years Ago

Posted May 27, 2009:

• Microfossils Challenge Prevailing Views Of 'Snowball Earth' Glaciations On Life

Posted May 26, 2009:

• Link Between Sociality And Brain Increase In Carnivores Questioned By Evolutionary Biologists

Posted May 19, 2009:

• First Evidence Of Pre-Industrial Mercury Pollution In The Andes
• Common Ancestor Of Humans, Modern Primates? 'Extraordinary' Fossil Is 47 Million Years Old

Posted May 15, 2009:

• Oldest Example Of Mutualism: Termites And Protozoa Discovered Together In Ancient Amber
• Ancient Trading Raft Sails Anew

Posted May 8, 2009:

• Filling The Gap In The Fossil Record
• Small Brain Of Dwarf 'Hobbit' Explained By Hippo's Island Life

Posted May 5, 2009:

• Giant Trilobites And Trilobite Clusters From The Ordovician Of Portugal

Posted May 1, 2009:

• Dinosaur-Bird Link: Ancient Proteins Preserved In Soft Tissue From 80 Million-Year-Old Hadrosaur
• Dynamite Used To Reveal New Layer Of Dinosaur Fossils

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