Fossil News

Posted July 21, 2008:

• Archaeologists Trace Early Irrigation Farming In Ancient Yemen

Posted July 18, 2008:

• Glimpses Of Earliest Forms Of Life On Earth: Remnant Of Ancient 'RNA World' Discovered

Posted July 16, 2008:

• Europe's Ancestors: Cro-Magnon 28,000 Years Old Had DNA Like Modern Humans

Posted July 15, 2008:

• Excavated Jericho Bones May Help Israeli-Palestinian-German Team Combat Tuberculosis

Posted July 14, 2008:

• Disproving Conventional Wisdom On Diversity Of Marine Fossils And Extinction Rates

Posted July 10, 2008:

• Flatfish Fossils Fill In Evolutionary Missing Link

Posted July 9, 2008:

• Big Brains Arose Twice In Higher Primates
• Fossil Feathers Preserve Evidence Of Color, Say Scientists

Posted July 8, 2008:

• Two-Ton, 500 Million-Year-Old Fossil Of Stromatolite Discovered In Virginia, U.S.
• Simple Life Form May Have Existed 700 Million Years Earlier Than Previously Thought

Posted July 1, 2008:

• Ancient Olympics: ‘Like Vince Lombardi On The PGA Circuit’

Posted June 27, 2008:

• New Fossils Of Extremely Primitive 4-Legged Creatures Close The Gap Between Fish And Land Animals

Posted June 16, 2008:

• Uncovering The Truth Behind The Largest Marsupial To Walk The Earth

Posted June 15, 2008:

• Australian Dinosaur Found To Have South American Heritage

Posted June 13, 2008:

• Mysterious Mountain Dinosaur May Be New Species

Posted June 12, 2008:

• Woolly Mammoth Gene Study Changes Extinction Theory
• Fossils Found In Tibet Revise History Of Elevation, Climate

Posted June 8, 2008:

• Fossilized Burrows 245 Million Years Old Suggest Lizard-Like Creatures In Antarctica

Posted June 6, 2008:

• Fish 380 Million Years Old Found With Unborn Embryo
• Dinosaur Diggers Bring Mobile Lab, New Techniques To Eastern Montana

Posted May 28, 2008:

• Authentic Viking DNA Retrieved From 1,000-Year-Old Skeletons
• Giant Flying Reptiles Preferred To Walk

Posted May 25, 2008:

• Is Indy Chasing A Fake? Two Well-Known Crystal Skulls Did Not, After All, Come From Ancient Mexico

Posted May 21, 2008:

• Ancient Amphibian: Debate Over Origin Of Frogs And Salamanders Settled With Discovery Of Missing Link

Posted May 20, 2008:

• World First Discovery: Genes From Extinct Tasmanian Tiger Function In A Mouse

Posted May 17, 2008:

• Parrot Fossil 55 Million Years Old Discovered In Scandinavia

Posted May 6, 2008:

• Dinosaur Bones Reveal Ancient Bug Bites

Posted May 1, 2008:

• Ancient Ecosystems Organized Much Like Our Own

Posted April 25, 2008:

• Molecular Analysis Confirms Tyrannosaurus Rex's Evolutionary Link To Birds

Posted April 23, 2008:

• Shell-Breaking Crabs Lived 20 Million Years Earlier Than Thought

Posted April 20, 2008:

• Early Elephant 'Was Amphibious'

Posted April 11, 2008:

• Grand Canyon May Be As Old As Dinosaurs, 40-50 Million Years Older Than Previously Thought
• Ancient DNA: Reconstruction Of The Biological History Of A Human Society

Posted April 8, 2008:

• Tiny Bug Found In Grand Canyon Region Cave Suggests Big Biodiversity

Posted April 4, 2008:

• Fossil From Last Common Ancestor Of Neanderthals And Humans Found In Europe, 1.2 Million Years Old

Posted April 3, 2008:

• Pre-Clovis Human DNA Found In 14,300-Year-Old Feces In Oregon Cave Is Oldest In New World

Posted April 2, 2008:

• Discovery Of Oldest Known Traces Of Mineralization Caused By Micro-Organisms
• Scientists Discover 356 Animal Inclusions Trapped In Opaque Amber 100 Million Years Old

Posted April 1, 2008:

• For The Paper Trail Of Life On Mars Or Other Planets, Find Cellulose

Posted March 26, 2008:

• Primitive Mouse-Like Creature May Be Ancestral Mother Of Australia's Unusual Pouched Mammals

Posted March 24, 2008:

• Good Luck Indeed: 53 Million-Year-Old Rabbit's Foot Bones Found

Posted March 21, 2008:

• Upright Walking Began 6 Million Years Ago, Thigh Bone Comparison Suggests
• Early Americans Arrived Thousands of Years Earlier Than Previously Believed

Posted March 20, 2008:

• Rethinking Early Evolution: Earth's Earliest Animal Ecosystem Was Complex And Included Sexual Reproduction
• Cause Of Death Of Russian Baby Mammoth Discovered
• Oldest Cretaceous Period Dinosaur Discovered Represents New Genus Of Prehistoric Aquatic Predator
• Skulls Of Modern Humans And Ancient Neanderthals Evolved Differently Because Of Chance, Not Natural Selection

Posted March 11, 2008:

• Micronesian Islands Colonized By Small-Bodied Humans

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