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Europe's Ancestors: Cro-Magnon 28,000 Years Old Had DNA Like Modern Humans
July 16, 2008 — Some 40,000 years ago, Cro-Magnons -- the first people who had a skeleton that looked anatomically modern -- entered Europe, coming from Africa. Geneticists now show that a Cro-Magnoid individual who ... > full story -
Big Predatory Mammals Such As Felines Need Between 5 And 7 Different Types Of Prey To Meet Their Dietary Needs
July 16, 2008 — Faced with earlier studies stating that the big predators such as tigers, lions, and lynxes fulfill their dietary needs by eating one or two types of prey, scientists now assure us now that felines ... > full story -
Two Extinct Flying Reptiles Compared: One Was A Glider, The Other A Parachutist
July 15, 2008 — A new study of extinct flying reptiles called kuehneosaurs, has shown that of the of the two genera found in Britain, Kuehneosuchus was a glider while Kuehneosaurus, with much shorter "wings," was a ... > full story -
Disproving Conventional Wisdom On Diversity Of Marine Fossils And Extinction Rates
July 14, 2008 — New research may be disproving much of the conventional wisdom about the diversity of marine fossils and extinction rates. While previous research showed eventual recoveries in the diversity of ... > full story -
Flatfish Fossils Fill In Evolutionary Missing Link
July 10, 2008 — Hidden away in museums for more that 100 years, some recently rediscovered flatfish fossils have filled a puzzling gap in the story of evolution and answered a question that initially stumped even ... > full story -
Big Brains Arose Twice In Higher Primates
July 9, 2008 — After taking a fresh look at an old fossil, researchers determined that the brains of the ancestors of modern neotropical primates were as small as those of their early fossil simian counterparts in ... > full story -
Fossil Feathers Preserve Evidence Of Color, Say Scientists
July 9, 2008 — The traces of organic material found in fossil feathers are remnants of pigments that once gave birds their color, according to Yale scientists whose paper in Biology Letters opens up the potential ... > full story -
Ancient Marine Invertebrate Diversity Less Explosive Than Thought
July 7, 2008 — Diversity among the ancestors of such marine creatures as clams, sand dollars and lobsters showed only a modest rise beginning 144 million years ago with no clear trend afterwards, according to ... > full story -
Exploding Asteroid Theory Strengthened By New Evidence Located In Ohio, Indiana
July 3, 2008 — Was the course of life on the planet altered 12,900 years ago by a giant comet exploding over Canada? New evidence suggests the answer is affirmative. The timing attached to this theory of about ... > full story -
Newcomer In Early Eurafrican Population?
July 2, 2008 — A complete mandible of Homo erectus was discovered at the Thomas I quarry in Casablanca by a French-Moroccan team. This mandible is the oldest human fossil uncovered from scientific excavations in ... > full story -
Canine Tooth Strength Provides Clues To Behavior Of Early Human Ancestors
June 30, 2008 — Measuring and testing the teeth of living primates could provide a window into the behavior of the earliest human ancestors, based on their fossilized remains. New research takes us one step closer ... > full story -
Uncovering The Truth Behind The Largest Marsupial To Walk The Earth
June 16, 2008 — Researchers is uncovering the truth behind the largest marsupial ever to walk the earth -- the 2.5 tonne wombat-like Diprotodon. Standing 1.8 meters tall and reaching up to 3.5 meters in length, this ... > full story
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