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Posted March 18, 2008:

• Gold Scroll Discovered: Earliest Evidence Of Jewish Inhabitants In Austria
• Clovis-age Overkill Didn't Take Out California's Flightless Sea Duck

Posted March 15, 2008:

• Exploring A 'Lost' City Of The Mycenaeans
• Gene Hunters Fine-tune Marker For Common Obesity Gene

Posted March 14, 2008:

• Do Meteors Create Life? Explosion Of New Life Coincided With Hundreds Of Meteorite Impacts

Posted March 13, 2008:

• Domestication Of The Donkey May Have Taken A Long Time
• Life's Building Blocks From Space? Meteorites A Rich Source For Primordial Soup

Posted March 12, 2008:

• Evidence Of Ice Age Hunters: 28 Palaeolithic Handaxes Found In North Sea

Posted March 11, 2008:

• Micronesian Islands Colonized By Small-bodied Humans

Posted March 10, 2008:

• Fossilized Giant Rhino Bone Questions Isolation Of Anatolia, 25 Million Years Ago
• History Of Life Seen In The Structure Of Transfer RNA

Posted March 9, 2008:

• Biologists Surprised To Find Parochial Bacterial Viruses

Posted March 7, 2008:

• Evidence Of Commerce Between Ancient Israel And China

Posted March 6, 2008:

• Hobbits May Be Human After All

Posted March 5, 2008:

• Warming Climate May Cause Arctic Tundra To Burn
• Giant Fossil Bats Out Of Africa, 35 Million Years Old
• Innovative Archaeological Survey Reveals Unknown Aspects Of China's Past

Posted March 4, 2008:

• New Discovery Of 'Old Growth' Crystals Provides New Record Of Planetary Evolution
• Nanometer-scale Complexity, Growth, And Diagenesis In Desert Varnish

Posted March 3, 2008:

• Darwin Was Wrong About Wild Origin Of The Chicken, New Research Shows

Posted March 2, 2008:

• West Antarctic Glaciers Melting At 20 Times Former Rate, Rock Analysis Shows

Posted February 29, 2008:

• Enormous Jurassic Sea Predator, Pliosaur, Discovered In Norway
• Chimps May Have A 'Language-ready' Brain
• Key To Life Before Its Origin On Earth May Have Been Discovered
• What Caused Westward Expansion In The United States?

Posted February 28, 2008:

• Centuries-old Maya Blue Mystery Finally Solved

Posted February 27, 2008:

• Vikings With Vanity: Vivid Colors, Flowing Silk, Fashionable Until Advent of Christianity

Posted February 26, 2008:

• Excavations In Iran Unravel Mystery Of 'Red Snake'
• Royals Weren't Only Builders Of Maya Temples, Archaeologist Finds
• Crime-fighting Tool: Hair Reveals Where Murder Victims Drank Water
• Past Greenhouse Warming Provides Clues To What The Future May Hold

Posted February 22, 2008:

• Ancient Puzzle Solved In Fossils From Canadian Rockies, Dating To Cambrian Explosion
• Ancient 'Out Of Africa' Migration Left Stamp On European Genetic Diversity

Posted February 21, 2008:

• No Easy Answers In Evolution Of Human Language
• Most Detailed Global Study Of Genetic Variation Completed

Posted February 20, 2008:

• Human Culture Subject To Natural Selection, Study Shows
• Genome Of Marine Organism Tells Of Humans' Unicellular Ancestors

Posted February 19, 2008:

• Cleopatra's Cosmetics And Hammurabi's Heineken: Name Brands Far Predating Modern Capitalism
• Giant Frog Jumps Continents, May Have Eaten Baby Dinosaurs
• Living Corals Thousands Of Years Old Hold Clues To Past Climate Changes

Posted February 18, 2008:

• There Is 'Design' In Nature, Biologist Argues
• Egypt's Earliest Agricultural Settlement Unearthed

Posted February 17, 2008:

• Increased Life Expectancy May Mean Lower Fertility
• Metabolic Syndrome Linked To Cold Tolerance
• Tough Breeds Of Livestock Disappearing: Saving Them Before It Is Too Late

Posted February 16, 2008:

• Ancient Proteins Rebuilt To Reveal Primordial Earth's Temperature

Posted February 15, 2008:

• Neanderthals Moved From Place To Place, Tooth Analysis Shows

Posted February 14, 2008:

• Nuclear 'Eye' Reveals That Napoleon Was Not Poisoned, Although Arsenic Levels High At That Time

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