Fossil News

Posted April 30, 2009:

• Analysis Finds Strong Match Between Molecular, Fossil Data In Evolutionary Studies

Posted April 29, 2009:

• Google Earth Aids Discovery Of Early African Mammal Fossils

Posted April 28, 2009:

• The Life That Escaped Darwin’s Notice

Posted April 19, 2009:

• From Fish To Landlubber: Fossils Suggest Earlier Land-Water Transition Of Tetrapod

Posted April 16, 2009:

• Prehistoric Turtle Goes To Hospital For CT Scan In Search For Skull, Eggs, Embryos

Posted April 9, 2009:

• Ancient Diatoms Lead To New Technology For Solar Energy
• DNA From Old Insects: No Need To Destroy The Specimen

Posted April 4, 2009:

• Hermit Arthropods 500 Million Years Ago?

Posted March 25, 2009:

• Evolution Of Fins And Limbs Linked With That Of Gills
• Deep-Sea Corals May Be Oldest Living Marine Organism

Posted March 24, 2009:

• Genomic Fossils In Lemurs Shed Light On Origin And Evolution Of HIV And Other Primate Lentiviruses
• Triceratops Was A Social Animal, Group Of Dinosaur Fossils Suggests

Posted March 21, 2009:

• Fossil Fragments Reveal 500-Million-Year-Old Monster Predator

Posted March 18, 2009:

• Cretaceous Octopus With Ink And Suckers The World's Least Likely Fossils?
• Elephant Shark Genome Sequence Leads To Discovery Of Color Perception In Deep-Sea Fish

Posted March 17, 2009:

• Mini Dinosaurs Prowled North America
• Old Soles: 800-Year-Old Shoe Soles Yield Clues About Preservation Of Leather

Posted March 16, 2009:

• Key Events In Evolutionary History Revealed In Protein Structure Study
• New Technology For Dating Ancient Rock Paintings
• Young Dinosaurs Roamed Together, Died Together

Posted March 13, 2009:

• Preserved Shark Fossil Adds Evidence To Great White's Origins

Posted March 9, 2009:

• Scientists Reconstruct An Ancient Greek Musical Instrument, The Epigonion

Posted March 3, 2009:

• First Fossil Brain: Shark Relative That Lived 300 Million Years Ago Yields Very Rare Specimen

Posted February 26, 2009:

• Fossilized Pregnant Fish One Of First Animals To Have Sex

Posted February 22, 2009:

• X-Rays Used To Reveal Secrets Of Famous 'Dinobird' Fossil

Posted February 19, 2009:

• Planet Earth: Avoiding The Hothouse And The Icehouse Of The Future
• Vast Cache Of Ice-Age Fossils Uncovered At La Brea Tar Pits In Los Angeles

Posted February 18, 2009:

• Air-Filled Bones Extended Lung Capacity And Helped Prehistoric Reptiles Take First Flight

Posted February 16, 2009:

• Draft Version Of The Neanderthal Genome Completed

Posted February 13, 2009:

• High-Tech Tests Allow Anthropologists To Track Ancient Hominids Across The Landscape

Posted February 9, 2009:

• New Species Of Prehistoric Creatures Discovered In Isle Of Wight Mud

Posted February 8, 2009:

• Census Of Modern Organisms Reveals Echo Of Ancient Mass Extinction

Posted February 6, 2009:

• Origin Of Claws Seen In Fossil 390 Million Years Old

Posted February 4, 2009:

• Early Whales Gave Birth On Land, Fossil Find Reveals
• At 2,500 Pounds And 43 Feet, Prehistoric Snake Is Largest On Record

Posted February 2, 2009:

• Ancient Turtle Migrated From Asia To America Over Tropical Arctic

Posted January 30, 2009:

• Dinosaur Fossils Fit Perfectly Into The Evolutionary Tree Of Life, Study Finds

Posted January 29, 2009:

• Reptile Fossil Reignites Debate Over New Zealand Submergence

Posted January 28, 2009:

• Birds Survived Mass Extinction That Wiped Out Dinosaurs Because Of Their Larger Brains

Posted January 21, 2009:

• 'Hobbit' Skull Study Finds Hobbit Is Not Human

Posted January 18, 2009:

• Largest-to-Date Genetic Snapshot Of Iceland 1,000 Years Ago Completed

Posted January 14, 2009:

• High-Tech Imaging Of Inner Ear Sheds Light On Hearing, Behavior Of Oldest Fossil Bird

Posted January 13, 2009:

• Giant Bird Feces Record Pre-Human New Zealand
• Hair Of Tasmanian Tiger Yields Genes Of Extinct Species

Posted January 12, 2009:

• Decline Of Plankton That Gobble Carbon Dioxide Coincided With Ancient Global Cooling

Posted January 9, 2009:

• Understanding Extinct Microbes May Influence The State Of Modern Human Health
• Solution To Darwin's Dilemma Of 1859

Posted January 6, 2009:

• Defensive Protein Killed Ancient Primate Retroviruses, Research Suggests

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