Fossil News

Posted February 11, 2010:

• Mass Extinctions: 'Giant' Fossils Are Revolutionizing Current Thinking

Posted February 10, 2010:

• Waking the Dead: Scientists Reconstruct Nuclear Genome of Extinct Human Being
• Bird-from-Dinosaur Theory of Evolution Challenged: Was It the Other Way Around?

Posted February 8, 2010:

• Carbonate Veins Reveal Chemistry of Ancient Seawater

Posted February 5, 2010:

• Dinosaur Had Vibrant Colors, Microscopic Fossil Clues Reveal

Posted February 4, 2010:

• Learning from Climate's Sedimental Journey

Posted February 3, 2010:

• Ancient Crocodile Relative Likely Food Source for Titanoboa, Largest Snake Ever Known
• Fossils Show Earliest Animal Trails

Posted February 2, 2010:

• Last Ancestor Humans Shared With Worms Had Sophisticated Brain, microRNAs Show
• DNA Testing on 2,000-Year-Old Bones in Italy Reveal East Asian Ancestry

Posted February 1, 2010:

• Rotting Fish Heads: Novel Studies of Decomposition Shed New Light on Our Earliest Fossil Ancestry

Posted January 29, 2010:

• Dinosaur Discovery Helps Solve Piece of Evolutionary Puzzle

Posted January 23, 2010:

• Can Modern-Day Plants Trace Their New Zealand Ancestry?

Posted January 22, 2010:

• Humans Caused Demise of Australia's Megafauna, Evidence Shows

Posted January 20, 2010:

• New Theory on the Origin of Primates

Posted January 14, 2010:

• Raft or Bridge: How Did Iguanas Reach Tiny Pacific Islands?

Posted January 6, 2010:

• Earliest Tyrannosauroid Rediscovered in Museum Collection

Posted January 4, 2010:

• Using Modern Sequencing Techniques to Study Ancient Humans

Posted December 23, 2009:

• Australian Fossil Unlocks Secrets to the Origin of Whales
• Fossil Shelved for a Century Reworks Carnivore Family Tree: Limbs Changes Understanding of Early Carnivore Locomotion

Posted December 22, 2009:

• Story of 4.5-Million-Year-Old Whale Found in Spain

Posted December 21, 2009:

• Ancient Koalas May Have Been Loud and Lazy but They Didn't Chew Gum

Posted December 20, 2009:

• Tropical Birds Waited for Land Crossing Between North and South America, Study Finds

Posted December 18, 2009:

• Ancient Pygmy Sea Cow Discovered

Posted December 17, 2009:

• Ancient Origins of Modern Opossum Revealed

Posted December 15, 2009:

• Mammoths Hung on Longer? Late-Surviving Megafauna Exposed by Ancient DNA in Frozen Soil

Posted December 12, 2009:

• Studying Hair of Ancient Peruvians Answers Questions About Stress

Posted December 10, 2009:

• DNA Sheds New Light on Horse Evolution
• Early Carnivorous Dinosaur Crossed Continents, Alters Evolutionary Tree

Posted December 3, 2009:

• Antarctica Served as Climatic Refuge in Earth's Greatest Extinction Event

Posted November 30, 2009:

• New Fossil Plant Discovery Links Patagonia to New Guinea in a Warmer Past

Posted November 27, 2009:

• Study Pits Man Versus Machine in Piecing Together 425-Million-Year-Old Jigsaw
• Mass Extinction: Why Did Half of N. America's Large Mammals Disappear 40,000 to 10,000 Years Ago?

Posted November 25, 2009:

• Origin of Life: Generating RNA Molecules in Water

Posted November 20, 2009:

• Rich Ore Deposits Linked to Ancient Atmosphere
• Paleontologists Find Extinction Rates Higher in Open-Ocean Settings During Mass Extinctions

Posted November 19, 2009:

• Cousins of Prehistoric Supercrocodile Inhabit Lost World of Sahara
• 'Hobbits' Are a New Human Species, According to Statistical Analysis of Fossils

Posted November 15, 2009:

• Ancient Penguin DNA Raises Doubts About Accuracy of Genetic Dating Techniques

Posted November 12, 2009:

• Earth's Early Ocean Cooled More Than A Billion Years Earlier Than Thought

Posted November 11, 2009:

• Warm-Blooded Dinosaurs Worked Up A Sweat
• Central Africa's Tropical Congo Basin Was Arid, Treeless In Late Jurassic

Posted November 9, 2009:

• Discovery Of The Oldest European Marsupial In Southwest France

Posted November 8, 2009:

• Seafloor Fossils Provide Clues To Climate Change

Posted November 6, 2009:

• Male Sabertoothed Cats Were Pussycats Compared To Macho Lions
• 'Duck-Billed' Dinosaurs: Last European Hadrosaurs Lived In Iberian Peninsula

Posted November 5, 2009:

• Portable 3-D Laser Technology Preserves Texas Dinosaur's Rare Footprint

Posted November 3, 2009:

• New Clues To Extinct Falklands Wolf Mystery

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