Fossil News

Posted October 19, 2010:

• Rotten Experiments Help to Create Picture of Our Early Ancestors

Posted October 18, 2010:

• Ammonites at Ancient Methane Seeps: New Light Shed on Mollusks That Went Extinct 65 Million Years Ago

Posted October 15, 2010:

• What Did Tyrannosaurus Rex Eat? Each Other
• Using Discards, Scientists Discover Different Dinosaurs' Stomping Grounds

Posted October 9, 2010:

• Plants Kick-Started Evolutionary Drama of Earth's Oxygenation

Posted October 6, 2010:

• Oldest Evidence of Dinosaurs in Footprints: Dinosaur Lineage Emerged Soon After Massive Permian Extinction

Posted October 1, 2010:

• First Genetic Evidence for Loss of Teeth in the Common Ancestor of Baleen Whales
• Species Accumulate on Earth at Slower Rates Than in the Past, Computational Biologists Say

Posted September 30, 2010:

• Fossilized Giant Penguin Reveals Unusual Colors, Sheds Light on Bird Evolution

Posted September 29, 2010:

• 19-Million-Year-Old Genomic Fossils of Hepatitis B-Like Viruses in Songbirds

Posted September 24, 2010:

• City Living Helped Humans Evolve Immunity to Tuberculosis and Leprosy, New Research Suggests

Posted September 22, 2010:

• Amazing Horned Dinosaurs Unearthed on 'Lost Continent'; New Discoveries Include Bizarre Beast With 15 Horns

Posted September 20, 2010:

• A Chip Off the Early Hominin Tooth: Researchers Develop Method for Determining the Diet of Our Early Ancestors

Posted September 19, 2010:

• Fossil of Giant Bony-Toothed Bird from Chile Sets Wingspan Record

Posted September 17, 2010:

• Tyrannosaurus Redux: T. Rex Was More Than Just a Large Carnivore at Top of Food Chain, New Findings Reveal

Posted September 9, 2010:

• Experts Question Claim That Alexander the Great's Half-Brother Is Buried at Vergina

Posted September 2, 2010:

• Ancient Brew Masters Tapped Antibiotic Secrets

Posted September 1, 2010:

• Evolution Rewritten, Again and Again

Posted August 30, 2010:

• 'Stocky Dragon' Dinosaur, Relative of Velociraptor, Terrorized Late Cretaceous Europe

Posted August 25, 2010:

• How Giant Tortoises, Alligators Thrived in High Arctic 50 Million Years Ago
• True Causes for Extinction of Cave Bear Revealed: More Human Expansion Than Climate Change

Posted August 24, 2010:

• Fires and Floods Key to Dinosaur Island Secrets

Posted August 18, 2010:

• Fossil Reveals 48-Million-Year History of Zombie Ants
• Secrets of a Vanished English Landscape: Geologists Examine 5,000-Year-Old 'Fossilized' Landscape

Posted August 17, 2010:

• Possible Discovery of Earliest Animal Life Pushes Back Fossil Record

Posted August 15, 2010:

• Dangerous Bacterium Hosts Genetic Remnant of Life's Distant Past

Posted August 12, 2010:

• An Ancient Earth Like Ours: Geologists Reconstruct Earth's Climate Belts Between 460 and 445 Million Years Ago

Posted August 10, 2010:

• Mosasaur Fossil: Life of 85-Million-Year-Old 'Sea Monster' Illuminated

Posted August 6, 2010:

• Reading Zip Codes of 3,500-Year-Old Letters: Non-Destructive X-Ray Scanning of Archaeological Finds

Posted August 5, 2010:

• Genome of Ancient Sponge Reveals Origins of First Animals, Cancer

Posted August 4, 2010:

• Ancient Blob-Like Creature of the Deep Revealed by Scientists
• Mammal-Like Crocodile Fossil Found in East Africa, Scientists Report
• Sponge Shines Light on Life's Origin: Genome Connects the Dots Between Amphimedon, Animal Descendants

Posted July 22, 2010:

• Temperature Constancy Appears Key to Tropical Biodiversity

Posted July 18, 2010:

• Remarkable Fossil Cave Shows How Ancient Marsupials Grew

Posted July 15, 2010:

• Fossil Find Puts a Face on Early Primates

Posted July 14, 2010:

• Ancient Birds from North America Colonized the South, Thanks to Panama Land Bridge

Posted July 13, 2010:

• Why You Should Never Arm Wrestle a Saber-Toothed Tiger

Posted July 8, 2010:

• Mojoceratops: New Dinosaur Species Named for Flamboyant Frill
• Dig Discovers Ancient Britons Were Earliest North Europeans

Posted July 1, 2010:

• Complex, Multicellular Life from Over Two Billion Years Ago Discovered

Posted June 23, 2010:

• Separation Between Neanderthal and Homo Sapiens Might Have Occurred 500,000 Years Earlier, DNA from Teeth Suggests
• Humans Have a Mighty Bite, New Research Shows

Posted June 18, 2010:

• Constraining the Reign of Ancient Egypt: Radiocarbon Dating Helps to Nail Down the Chronology of Kings, Researchers Say

Posted June 17, 2010:

• Dinosaur-Chewing Mammals Leave Behind Oldest Known Tooth Marks

Posted June 16, 2010:

• World's Oldest Fig Wasp Fossil Proves That If It Works, Don't Change It
• Delineating Primary and Secondary Organic Carbon in Neoproterozoic Glacial Sediments

Posted June 8, 2010:

• Some Like It Hot: Site of Human Evolution Was Scorching

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