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Posted October 10, 2008:

• Species Extinction By Asteroid A Rarity

Posted October 9, 2008:

• Deathways Open Doors To Unexpected Cultural Practices

Posted October 8, 2008:

• DNA Could Reveal Your Surname

Posted October 7, 2008:

• Mysterious Snippets Of DNA Withstand Eons Of Evolution
• Impact Of Geology On The U.S. Civil War: War From The Ground Up
• The Green Sahara, A Desert In Bloom

Posted October 6, 2008:

• Egalitarian Revolution In The Pleistocene?
• Earliest Animal Footprints Ever Found Show Animals Walking 30 Million Years Earlier Than Previously Thought
• Gene Expression In Alligators Suggests Birds Have 'Thumbs'

Posted October 5, 2008:

• Pterodactyl-inspired Robot To Master Air, Ground And Sea
• The Earth After Us: What Legacy Will Humans Leave In The Rocks?

Posted October 4, 2008:

• Navy Confirms Sunken Submarine Is Grunion

Posted October 2, 2008:

• Short RNAs Show A Long History: MicroRNAs Found In Animals That Appeared A Billion Years Ago
• Canada's Shores Saved Animals From Devastating Climate Change 252 Million Years Ago
• Paleozoic 'Sediment Curve' Provides New Tool For Tracking Sea-floor Sediment Movements

Posted October 1, 2008:

• New Life Found In Ancient Tombs

Posted September 30, 2008:

• Mass Extinctions And The Evolution Of Dinosaurs
• Meat-eating Dinosaur From Argentina Had Bird-like Breathing System
• Degradation Of Wood In Royal Warship Vasa Is Caused By Iron
• Carbonate-hosted Avalon-type Fossils In Arctic Siberia

Posted September 27, 2008:

• Mother Of A Goose! Giant Ocean-going Geese With Bony-teeth Once Roamed Across SE England

Posted September 25, 2008:

• America's Smallest Dinosaur Uncovered

Posted September 24, 2008:

• New Life For Middle English: Norwegian Detective Work Gives New Knowledge Of The English Language
• Iberian Peninsula’s Earliest Agricultural Systems Were Unsustainable

Posted September 23, 2008:

• Primordial Fish Had Rudimentary Fingers
• 'Redesigned Hammer' That Forged Evolution Of Pregnancy In Mammals Found

Posted September 22, 2008:

• Nematode Genome Provides Insight Into Evolution Of Parasitism

Posted September 20, 2008:

• Emergence Of Agriculture In Prehistory Took Much Longer, Genetic Evidence Suggests

Posted September 17, 2008:

• Roman York Skeleton Could Be Early TB Victim

Posted September 16, 2008:

• New Ant Species Discovered In The Amazon Likely Represents Oldest Living Lineage Of Ants

Posted September 15, 2008:

• Ice Core Studies Confirm Accuracy Of Climate Models

Posted September 13, 2008:

• Scientist Uncovers Miscalculation In Geological Undersea Record
• Computational Biochemist Uncovers A Molecular Clue To Evolution

Posted September 12, 2008:

• My, What Big Teeth You Had! Extinct Species Had Huge Teeth On Roof Of Mouth
• Good Luck, Not Superiority, Gave Dinosaurs Their Edge, Study Of Crocodile Cousins Reveals

Posted September 11, 2008:

• Geologists Dig Up One Of The Largest Lakes In The World, Dammed By Ice During Last Ice Age

Posted September 10, 2008:

• Oxygen Theory Of Mass Extinction Questioned By New Research Findings
• Anthropologists Develop New Approach To Explain Religious Behavior

Posted September 9, 2008:

• Childbirth Was Already Difficult For Neanderthals

Posted September 8, 2008:

• Trichoplax Genome Sequenced: 'Rosetta Stone' For Understanding Evolution

Posted September 7, 2008:

• Long-held Assumptions Of Flightless Bird Evolution Challenged By New Research

Posted September 6, 2008:

• Old Before Their Time? Aging Rate In Flies Twice As Fast In Wild Than In Laboratory
• Digitizing Archives From The 17th Century

Posted September 5, 2008:

• DNA Shows That Last Woolly Mammoths Had North American Roots

Posted September 4, 2008:

• Molecular Evolution Is Echoed In Bat Ears
• Tutankhamen Fathered Twins, Mummified Fetuses Suggest
• Significance Of Milk In Development Of Culture To Be Studied

Posted September 3, 2008:

• Oldest Gecko Fossil Ever Found, Entombed In Amber

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