Fossil News

Posted July 24, 2009:

• DNA Of Ancient Lost Barley Could Help Modern Crops Cope With Water Stress

Posted July 20, 2009:

• Fossilized Dung Balls Reveal Secret Ecology Of Lost World

Posted July 16, 2009:

• Skull Of Crocodile 100 Million Years Old Unearthed

Posted July 14, 2009:

• Sharks: Missing Piece Of Fossil Puzzle Found

Posted July 12, 2009:

• Seals Quickly Respond To Gain And Loss Of Habitat Under Climate Change

Posted July 11, 2009:

• Down Under Dinosaur Burrow Discovery Provides Climate Change Clues

Posted July 7, 2009:

• Ferns Took To The Trees And Thrived During Cretaceous Period

Posted July 3, 2009:

• Triple Fossil Find Puts Australia Back On The Dinosaur Map

Posted July 2, 2009:

• Giant Moa Rebuilt Using Ancient DNA From Prehistoric Feathers
• Biogenic Origin For Earth's Oldest Putative Microfossils

Posted July 1, 2009:

• New Fossil Primate Suggests Common Asian Ancestor, Challenges Primates Such As 'Ida'

Posted June 23, 2009:

• 54-Million-Year-Old Skull Reveals Early Evolution Of Primate Brains

Posted June 19, 2009:

• Sudden Collapse In Ancient Biodiversity: Was Global Warming The Culprit?
• Size Did Matter: Evidence Of Giant Sperm Found In Microfossils

Posted June 18, 2009:

• Humans More Related To Orangutans Than Chimps, Study Suggests

Posted June 17, 2009:

• Ancient Ice Age, Once Regarded As Brief 'Blip' Found To Have Lasted For 30 Million Years
• Sands Of Gobi Desert Yield New Species Of Nut-Cracking Dinosaur
• Fossil Teeth Of Three-Toed Browsing Horse Found In Panama Canal Earthworks

Posted June 16, 2009:

• Sediment Yields Climate Record For Past Half-Million Years

Posted June 10, 2009:

• Fossil Bone Bed Helps Reconstruct Life Along California's Ancient Coastline

Posted June 1, 2009:

• High Arctic Mammals Wintered In Darkness 53 Million Years Ago

Posted May 27, 2009:

• Microfossils Challenge Prevailing Views Of 'Snowball Earth' Glaciations On Life

Posted May 26, 2009:

• Link Between Sociality And Brain Increase In Carnivores Questioned By Evolutionary Biologists

Posted May 19, 2009:

• First Evidence Of Pre-Industrial Mercury Pollution In The Andes
• Common Ancestor Of Humans, Modern Primates? 'Extraordinary' Fossil Is 47 Million Years Old

Posted May 15, 2009:

• Oldest Example Of Mutualism: Termites And Protozoa Discovered Together In Ancient Amber
• Ancient Trading Raft Sails Anew

Posted May 8, 2009:

• Filling The Gap In The Fossil Record
• Small Brain Of Dwarf 'Hobbit' Explained By Hippo's Island Life

Posted May 5, 2009:

• Giant Trilobites And Trilobite Clusters From The Ordovician Of Portugal

Posted May 1, 2009:

• Dinosaur-Bird Link: Ancient Proteins Preserved In Soft Tissue From 80 Million-Year-Old Hadrosaur
• Dynamite Used To Reveal New Layer Of Dinosaur Fossils

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 22, 2009:

• Tyrannosaur 'Missing Link' Among New Dinosaurs From China

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
• New Link Between The Evolution Of Complex Life Forms On Earth And Nickel And Methane Gas

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?

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