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Posted May 31, 2000:

• Stone Tools Reveal Ancient Seafood Diet

Posted May 16, 2000:

• Images Of Evolution: DNA Leaves Fossils In The Dust

Posted May 12, 2000:

• Researchers Find Skull Remains Pointing To First Hominids Out Of Africa

Posted April 21, 2000:

• Scientists Discover 66-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur With A Heart

Posted March 17, 2000:

• Newly Discovered Fossils From China Shed Light On Common Ancestry Of Monkeys, Apes And Humans
• New Fossil Snake With Legs, Reported In Science

Posted March 16, 2000:

• Researchers Discover Fossils Of Tiny, Thumb-Length Primates

Posted January 18, 2000:

• Children's Sorting Of Mastodon Debris-In-A-Bag Could Help Explain Climate Change 12,000 Years Ago, Cornell Scientists Hope

Posted December 15, 1999:

• Paleobarometers On The Wing: Fossil Mayflies Can Be Used To "Weigh" Ancient Atmospheres, Cornell Geologist Says

Posted October 27, 1999:

• Scientists Document Most Recent Date For Neandertals

Posted October 22, 1999:

• Discovery Of Oldest Dinosaur Bones Reported In Science

Posted October 15, 1999:

• Primitive Primate Makes The Case For Asian Anthropoid Origins

Posted September 3, 1999:

• Jurassic Period Mammal Teeth Found -- Prevailing Theories Challenged

Posted August 31, 1999:

• Primate Genus Sheds Light On Great Ape And Human Origins

Posted August 27, 1999:

• Seafood Was Brain Food, Says Researcher

Posted August 18, 1999:

• Geologists At UNC-CH Discover State's "Most Spectacular" Fossils

Posted June 25, 1999:

• Dinosaur Fossils Reveal Evolution's Big Picture, Says Paleontologist

Posted June 17, 1999:

• Discovery Of New Bird Species In China, Oldest Beak Shows Evolution Complexity

Posted May 14, 1999:

• Theropods Caught In Their Tracks -- Fossil Footprints Show Foot-Movement Similarity In Dinosaurs And Birds

Posted April 28, 1999:

• Archeologists Find Milder Arctic Climate May Have Aided Aleutian Settlement

Posted April 23, 1999:

• New Species Of Human Ancestor

Posted April 22, 1999:

• Earliest Modern Tree Lived 360-345 Million Years Ago

Posted April 12, 1999:

• New Findings On Primitive Shark Contradicts Current View Of Jaw Evolution

Posted March 22, 1999:

• Flatworms Are Oldest Living Ancestors To Those Of Us With Right And Left Sides, Researchers Report In Science

Posted March 11, 1999:

• Important New Fossil Animal Discovered By South African Scientists

Posted March 3, 1999:

• Not A Hand But Maybe A Sponge: A Mysterious Glass Fossil Becomes The Subject Of A Public Search

Posted March 1, 1999:

• Scientists Devise Method To Address Conflict Between Molecular Clock, Fossil Record Of Mammalian Evolution

Posted February 17, 1999:

• Gene Study Shows Turtles Are Next Of Kin To Crocodiles And Alligators

Posted January 22, 1999:

• Rare Fossil Shows Theropod Dinosaurs Are Fast, Dangerous 'Turbocharged' Reptiles

Posted January 21, 1999:

• Large Gene Study Questions Cambrian Explosion

Posted January 20, 1999:

• World's Oldest Duck-Billed Dinosaur Discovered

Posted December 21, 1998:

• From Germany To The Wild West: Geologists Hunt For Evidence Of Ancient Crinoid

Posted December 18, 1998:

• Bones Of Crocodile-Like Beasts Tell Tale Of Arctic Warming

Posted December 14, 1998:

• Study Associates Asteroid Or Comet Impact With Extinctions In Argentina

Posted December 10, 1998:

• First Complete Fossil Of Fierce Prehistoric Predator Found In South Africa

Posted December 3, 1998:

• Discovery Of New Fossils In Gobi Desert Of Mongolia Provides Important Insight Into Early Mammal Evolution

Posted November 23, 1998:

• Chinese And U.S. Scientists Identify The World's Oldest Flowering Plant

Posted November 20, 1998:

• Scientist Finds Asteroid Fossil That May Have Caused Global Dinosaur Extinction

Posted November 18, 1998:

• First Dinosaur Embryo Skin Discovered -- Unhatched Embryos Are First Ever Found Of Giant-Plant Eating Dinosaurs

Posted November 17, 1998:

• Beyond Jurassic Park -- Real Science With Ancient DNA

Posted November 13, 1998:

• Discovery Of New Large, Predatory Dinosaur Reported In Science

Posted October 28, 1998:

• Possible Human Ancestors Lived In Spain 780,000 Years Ago

Posted October 26, 1998:

• World's Oldest Known Fossil Reptile Nests Discovered In Arizona's Petrified Forest
• Ancient Human Hair May Be Key To Understanding Diet Of Ancient Civilizations

Posted October 15, 1998:

• Life Flourished When Earth Was Warmer, Scientist Says

Posted October 2, 1998:

• New Studies Shed Light On Facial Features Of Popular Dinosaurs

Posted October 1, 1998:

• Fossil Evidence Of Worms Over One Billion Years Old Reported In Science

Posted September 29, 1998:

• Jurassic Beetle: CSIRO Entomologist Discovers Living Fossil

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