Fossils & Ruins News

Posted May 8, 2002:

• Recent Dinosaur Discoveries In Utah And Wyoming

Posted May 6, 2002:

• Ancient Flower Fossil Points To Underwater Origins

Posted April 18, 2002:

• Scientists Push Back Primate Origins From 65 Million To 85 Million Years Ago

Posted April 15, 2002:

• Medieval Black Death Was Probably Not Bubonic Plague

Posted April 10, 2002:

• Impact Events' Kinetic Energy May Be Key To Understanding The Severity Of Mass Extinctions

Posted March 29, 2002:

• Alligator's Bite Could Lift A Small Truck

Posted March 28, 2002:

• University Of Alaska Biologist Tracking Extinct Bears
• New Method For Placing Loose Fossils Back Into The Strata , Uncovering "Fakes"

Posted March 27, 2002:

• Excavations In Eastern Europe Reveal Ancient Human Lifestyles

Posted March 26, 2002:

• Ethiopian Fossil Skull Indicates Homo Erectus Was Single, Widespread Species 1 Million Years Ago

Posted March 25, 2002:

• New Dinosaur Related To Triceratops

Posted March 22, 2002:

• Scientist Probes Fossil Oddity: Giant Redwoods Near North Pole

Posted March 21, 2002:

• Discovery Supports Theory Of A Single Species Of Human Ancestor

Posted March 14, 2002:

• UCLA Scientists, Colleagues Substantiate Biological Origin Of Earliest Fossils

Posted March 8, 2002:

• Humans Emerged "Out Of Africa" Again And Again
• Evolutionary Leap From Sea To Dry Land: Undergrad Finds Clues To 400-Million-Year-Old Mystery

Posted March 4, 2002:

• Tyrannosaurus Rex Probably Could Not Run Fast, Scientists Say

Posted March 1, 2002:

• X-Ray Analysis Of Shipwreck May Help Conservators Save Waterlogged Artifacts

Posted February 19, 2002:

• Scientists Look To Europe As Evolutionary Seat

Posted February 14, 2002:

• New Species Clarifies Bird-Dinosaur Link

Posted February 5, 2002:

• Cave Men Diets Offer Insights To Today's Health Problems, Study Shows

Posted January 31, 2002:

• Water Lily May Provide A "Missing Link" In The Evolution Of Flowering Plants

Posted January 30, 2002:

• New Theory Of The Evolution Of Bird Flight Linked To Parental Care
• Adsorption On Clay Accounts For Organic-Rich Rocks

Posted January 25, 2002:

• Climate Change Following Collapse Of The Maya Empire

Posted January 24, 2002:

• The K-T Impact Extinctions: Dust Didn't Do It
• What Are Those Big Jellyfish Fossils Doing In Wisconsin?

Posted January 21, 2002:

• Gondwana Split Sorts Out Mammalian Evolution

Posted January 14, 2002:

• Abstract Engravings Show Modern Behavior Emerged Earlier Than Previously Thought

Posted January 7, 2002:

• Evolutionary "Speed Limit" Governs How Quickly Life Bounces Back After Extinction; Biodiversity Recovers More Slowly Than Thought

Posted January 4, 2002:

• Inherent Speed Limit Governs How Quickly Life Bounces Back After Extinction, UC Berkeley Research Shows

Posted January 3, 2002:

• University Of Pennsylvania Archaeologist Asserts That Enigmatic Ivory Statuette May Be Part Of The Throne Of The Famed King Midas

Posted December 27, 2001:

• Archaeologists Rewrite Timeline Of Bronze And Iron Ages

Posted December 14, 2001:

• Researchers Find Closest Living Relative Of First Land Plants

Posted December 11, 2001:

• Droplets In Salt Crystals Confirm Historic Ocean Changes

Posted December 7, 2001:

• Fossil Teeth Reveal Recent Origin Of Human Growth Pattern

Posted November 21, 2001:

• Largest Fossil Cockroach Found; Site Preserves Incredible Detail

Posted November 19, 2001:

• Alligators On A Treadmill Hint How Dinosaurs Breathed; Rotating Bone In Pelvis Helps Gators Walk And Breathe Simultaneously

Posted November 14, 2001:

• "Skeletons" In The Closet: One Fifth Of Species Names May Be Invalid

Posted November 8, 2001:

• Researchers Zero In On Date Of Early Hominids
• Why The Big Animals Went Down In The Pleistocene: Was It Just The Climate?

Posted November 7, 2001:

• University Of Cincinnati Geologist Finds Survival Benefit To Evolving After Mass Extinctions
• Tiniest Paleozoic Sea Creatures Were Lunch Of Choice

Posted November 2, 2001:

• Yale And University Of Chicago Researchers Discover 40-Foot Crocodile Fossil, Possibly The Largest Known So Far

Posted November 1, 2001:

• Study: King Midas' Feast Offered Golden Opportunity For Fungi

Posted October 31, 2001:

• NASA To Help Archaeologists Locate Lewis & Clark Sites

Posted October 25, 2001:

• Blame North America Megafauna Extinction On Climate Change, Not Human Ancestors

Posted October 24, 2001:

• Scientists Examine The Seas Our Ancestors Fished To Better Understand Today's Changing Oceans

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