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Posted February 12, 2011:

• 3-D Digital Dinosaur Track Download: A Roadmap for Saving at-Risk Natural History Resources

Posted February 11, 2011:

• Quest for Extinct Giant Rats Leads Scientists to Ancient Face Carvings
• New View of Human Evolution? 3.2 Million-Year-Old Fossil Foot Bone Supports Humanlike Bipedalism in Lucy's Species
• Vietnam’s Biodiversity Has Deep Roots in Earth’s Past

Posted February 8, 2011:

• Conceptualizing Cancer Cells as Ancient 'Toolkit'
• Unexpected Exoskeleton Remnants Found in Paleozoic Fossils

Posted February 7, 2011:

• X-Rays Reveal Hidden Leg of an Ancient Snake: New Hints on How Snakes Were Getting Legless

Posted February 1, 2011:

• Newly Discovered Dinosaur Likely Father of Triceratops

Posted January 28, 2011:

• Dinosaurs Survived Mass Extinction by 700,000 Years, Fossil Find Suggests

Posted January 27, 2011:

• Mass Extinction Linked to Ancient Climate Change, New Details Reveal
• Ancient Body Clock Discovered That Helps Keep All Living Things on Time

Posted January 21, 2011:

• Remarkable Preservation of African Fossils Explained

Posted January 20, 2011:

• How to Tell a Pterodactyl's Sex: Dino-Era Riddle Solved by New Fossil Find

Posted January 14, 2011:

• Putting the Dead to Work: Conservation Paleobiologists Dig Deep to Solve Today's Ecological, Evolutionary Questions

Posted January 10, 2011:

• Oxygen-Free Early Oceans Likely Delayed Rise of Life on Planet
• New Species of Ancient Flying Reptile Identified on British Columbia Coast

Posted January 7, 2011:

• Extinct Insect Completely Reconstructed in 3-D

Posted January 6, 2011:

• Ammonites' Last Meal: New Light on Past Marine Food Chains

Posted January 3, 2011:

• Not So Bird-Brained: 3D X-Rays Piece Together the Evolution of Flight from Fossils

Posted December 30, 2010:

• Link Between Ancient Lizard Fossil in Africa and Today's Komodo Dragon in Indonesia

Posted December 29, 2010:

• Rodents Were Diverse and Abundant in Prehistoric Africa When Our Human Ancestors Evolved

Posted December 24, 2010:

• Learning from Leftovers: A History Drawn from Turkey Bones

Posted December 23, 2010:

• New Fossil Site in China Shows Long Recovery of Life from the Largest Extinction in Earth's History

Posted December 22, 2010:

• Fossil Finger Bone Yields Genome of a Previously Unknown Human Relative
• Africa Has Two Elephant Species, Genetic Analysis Confirms

Posted December 20, 2010:

• Three Billion-Year-Old Genomic Fossils Deciphered

Posted December 17, 2010:

• Molecular Fossil: Crystal Structure Shows How RNA, One of Biology's Oldest Catalysts, Is Made

Posted December 16, 2010:

• Age Doesn't Matter: New Genes Are as Essential as Ancient Ones
• Colossal Fossil: Museum's New Whale Skeleton Represents Decades of Research

Posted December 14, 2010:

• Oldest Fossils Found in Cordillera Bética Mountain Range

Posted December 10, 2010:

• Bizarre Reptile Challenges Notion of Crocodiles as 'Living Fossils'

Posted November 29, 2010:

• Crown Suggests Queen Arsinoë II Ruled Ancient Egypt as Female Pharaoh

Posted November 25, 2010:

• Ancient Insects Preferred Warmer Climates

Posted November 22, 2010:

• Researchers Kick-Start Ancient DNA
• Paleovirology Expanded: Non-Retroviral Virus Fragments Found in Animal Genomes

Posted November 17, 2010:

• Upending Conventional Wisdom, Certain Virus Families Are Ancient

Posted November 15, 2010:

• Synchrotron Reveals Human Children Outpaced Neanderthals by Slowing Down

Posted November 12, 2010:

• Oldest Dinosaur Embryos Give Insights Into Infancy and Growth

Posted November 10, 2010:

• Cambrian Explosion: New Timeline for Appearances of Skeletal Animals in Fossil Record
• DNA Reveals Origins of First European Farmers
• Oldest Fossilized Shrimp: Geologists Study Rare Well-Preserved Creature Showing Muscles

Posted November 5, 2010:

• New Statistical Model Moves Human Evolution Back Three Million Years
• Neanderthals Were More Promiscuous Than Modern Humans, Fossil Finger Bones Suggest

Posted November 2, 2010:

• Do Holes Make Moles? Surprising First Ancestor of Bizarre Marsupial Moles

Posted November 1, 2010:

• Did Neanderthals Make Jewellery After All?

Posted October 30, 2010:

• Paradise Lost -- And Found: Researchers Unearth Ancient Water Secrets at Royal Garden Dig

Posted October 28, 2010:

• Modern Humans Emerged Far Earlier Than Previously Thought, Fossils from China Suggest

Posted October 26, 2010:

• Vast Amber Deposit from India: New Trove of Fossils Suggests Global Distribution of Tropical Forest Ecosystems in the Eocene

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