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First Prehistoric Pregnant Turtle And Nest Of Eggs Discovered In Southern Alberta
August 27, 2008 — A 75-million-year-old fossil of a pregnant turtle and a nest of fossilized eggs that were discovered in the badlands of southeastern Alberta are yielding new ideas on the evolution of egg-laying and ... > full story -
New Evidence Debunks 'Stupid' Neanderthal Myth
August 26, 2008 — New research has struck another blow to the theory that Neanderthals became extinct because they were less intelligent than our ancestors. The research team has shown that early stone tool ... > full story -
New Climate Record Shows Century-long Droughts In Eastern North America
August 23, 2008 — A stalagmite in a West Virginia cave has yielded the most detailed geological record to date on climate cycles in eastern North America over the past 7,000 years. The new study confirms that during ... > full story -
Stone Age Graveyard Reveals Lifestyles Of A 'Green Sahara'
August 15, 2008 — The largest Stone Age graveyard found in the Sahara, which provides an unparalleled record of life when the region was green, has been discovered in Niger by National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence ... > full story -
Complete Neanderthal Mitochondrial Genome Sequenced From 38,000-year-old Bone
August 8, 2008 — The complete mitochondrial genome of a 38,000-year-old Neanderthal has been sequenced. The findings open a window into the Neanderthals' past and helps answer lingering questions about our ... > full story -
Duck-billed Dinosaurs Outgrew Predators To Survive
August 6, 2008 — With long limbs and a soft body, the duck-billed hadrosaur had few defenses against predators such as tyrannosaurs. But new research on the bones of this plant-eating dinosaur suggests that it had at ... > full story -
Antarctic Fossils Paint Picture Of Much Warmer Continent
August 6, 2008 — Scientists working in an ice-free region of Antarctica have discovered the last traces of tundra -- in the form of fossilized plants and insects -- on the interior of the southernmost continent ... > full story -
Little Teeth Suggest Big Jump In Primate Timeline
August 5, 2008 — Tiny fossilized teeth excavated from an Indian open-pit coal mine could be the oldest Asian remains ever found of anthropoids, the primate lineage of today's monkeys, apes and ... > full story -
Cold And Ice, Not Heat, Episodically Gripped Tropical Regions 300 Million Years Ago
August 1, 2008 — Geoscientists have long presumed that, like today, the tropics remained warm throughout Earth's last major glaciation 300 million years ago. New evidence, however, indicates that cold temperatures in ... > full story -
Did Dinosaur Soft Tissues Still Survive? New Research Challenges Notion
July 30, 2008 — Paleontologists in 2005 hailed research apparently showing that soft tissues had been recovered from dissolved dinosaur bones, but new research suggests the supposed recovered tissue is really just ... > full story -
Piecing Together An Extinct Lemur, Large As A Big Baboon
July 29, 2008 — Researchers have used computed tomography technology to virtually glue newly-discovered skull fragments of a rare extinct lemur back into its partial skull, discovered over a century ago. The skull ... > full story -
Dinosaurs Did Not Evolve Quickly In Last 50 Million Years, New Dinosaur Super-tree Shows
July 24, 2008 — It has long been debated whether dinosaurs were part of the 'Terrestrial Revolution' that occurred some 100 million years ago during the Cretaceous when birds, mammals, flowering plants, insects and ... > full story
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