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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 -
Sea's Ebb And Flow Drive World's Big Extinction Events, Study Suggests
June 16, 2008 — If you are curious about Earth's periodic mass extinction events such as the sudden demise of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, you might consider crashing asteroids and sky-darkening super ... > full story -
Australian Dinosaur Found To Have South American Heritage
June 15, 2008 — Australia's links to South America have just gotten a bit closer, but not due to economic forces, rather fossil forces. Palaeontologists working in Australia identified a fossil that had previously ... > full story -
Mysterious Mountain Dinosaur May Be New Species
June 13, 2008 — A partial dinosaur skeleton unearthed in 1971 from a remote British Columbia site is the first ever found in Canadian mountains and may represent a new ... > full story -
Woolly Mammoth Gene Study Changes Extinction Theory
June 12, 2008 — A large genetic study of the extinct woolly mammoth has revealed that the species was not one large homogenous group, as scientists previously had assumed, and that it did not have much genetic ... > full story -
Fossils Found In Tibet Revise History Of Elevation, Climate
June 12, 2008 — About 15,000 feet up on Tibet's desolate Himalayan-Tibetan Plateau, an international research team was surprised to find thick layers of ancient lake sediment filled with plant, fish and animal ... > full story -
Fossilized Burrows 245 Million Years Old Suggest Lizard-like Creatures In Antarctica
June 8, 2008 — Scientists find evidence of tetrapods living in Antarctica during the early Triassic epoch, about 245 million years ago. The fossils were created when fine sand from an overflowing river poured into ... > full story -
Fish 380 Million Years Old Found With Unborn Embryo
June 6, 2008 — Australian researchers have discovered a remarkable 380-million-year-old fossil placoderm fish with intact embryo and mineralized umbilical cord. The discovery makes the fossil the world's oldest ... > full story -
Dinosaur Diggers Bring Mobile Lab, New Techniques To Eastern Montana
June 6, 2008 — Scientists who dig dinosaurs in Eastern Montana will now be able to chemically analyze fossils the same day they're excavated and before degrading begins. They'll also use cranes to excavate entire ... > full story -
Rewriting Greenland's Immigration History
June 5, 2008 — The first immigrants in Greenland were not Indians from the North American continent or Canadian Inuit as previously suggested. And it is not just a question of revising the Greenlandic immigration ... > full story
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