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Mercury Releases Into the Atmosphere from Ancient to Modern Times
December 14, 2011 — In pursuit of riches and energy over the last 5,000 years, humans have released into the environment 385,000 tons of mercury, the source of numerous health concerns, according to a new study that ... > full story -
Follow Your Nose: Compared to Neanderthals, Modern Humans Have a Better Sense of Smell
December 14, 2011 — High-tech medical imaging techniques were recently used to access internal structures of fossil human skulls. Researchers used sophisticated 3-D methods to quantify the shape of the basal brain as ... > full story -
A Small Step for Lungfish, a Big Step for the Evolution of Walking
December 12, 2011 — The eel-like body and scrawny "limbs" of the African lungfish would appear to make it an unlikely innovator for locomotion. But its improbable walking behavior, newly described, redraws the ... > full story -
Paleoclimate Record Points Toward Potential Rapid Climate Changes
December 8, 2011 — New research into the Earth's paleoclimate history suggests the potential for rapid climate changes this century, including multiple meters of sea level rise, if global warming is not ... > full story -
North America's Biggest Dinosaur Revealed
December 7, 2011 — New research has unveiled enormous bones from North America's biggest dinosaur. Researchers collected two gigantic vertebrae and a femur in New Mexico. The bones belong to the sauropod dinosaur ... > full story -
World's First Super Predator Had Remarkable Vision
December 7, 2011 — Scientists working on fossils from Kangaroo Island, South Australia, have found eyes belonging to a giant 500 million-year-old marine predator that sat at the top of the earth's first food ... > full story -
New Horned Dinosaur Announced Nearly 100 Years After Discovery
December 6, 2011 — A new species of horned dinosaur was just announced by an international team of scientists, nearly 100 years after the initial discovery of the fossil. The animal, named Spinops sternbergorum, lived ... > full story -
Ancient Meat-Loving Predators Survived for 35 Million Years
December 6, 2011 — A species of ancient predator with saw-like teeth, sleek bodies and a voracious appetite for meat survived a major extinction at a time when the distant relatives of mammals ruled the ... > full story -
Global Sea Surface Temperature Data Provides New Measure of Climate Sensitivity Over the Last Half Million Years
December 6, 2011 — Scientists have developed important new insight into the sensitivity of global temperature to changes in Earth's radiation balance over the last half million ... > full story -
Simultaneous Ice Melt in Antarctic and Arctic
December 2, 2011 — A new article shows that the two hemispheres attained their maximum ice sheet size at nearly the same time and started melting 19,000 years ago. This simultaneous melting was presumably caused by ... > full story -
Rise of Atmospheric Oxygen More Complicated Than Previously Thought
December 1, 2011 — The appearance of oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere probably did not occur as a single event, but as a long series of starts and stops, according to an international team of researchers who ... > full story -
Madagascar Dinosaur Bone Is Most Massive Osteoderm Ever Found
November 29, 2011 — What more can we learn about long-necked dinosaurs that we don't already know? Researchers have found that Madagascar dinosaurs carried giant, hollow bones in their skin that may have helped them ... > full storyMore:
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