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Posted May 8, 2008:

• Animal Interaction Behind Cambrian Explosion? 'Missing' Ancestors Of Today's Animals May Not Be Missing After All

Posted May 6, 2008:

• Dinosaur Bones Reveal Ancient Bug Bites

Posted May 5, 2008:

• Asteroid Impact 65 Million Years Ago Triggered A Global Hail Of Carbon Beads

Posted May 2, 2008:

• Sun's Movement Through Milky Way Regularly Sends Comets Hurtling, Coinciding With Mass Life Extinctions

Posted May 1, 2008:

• Ancient Ecosystems Organized Much Like Our Own

Posted April 30, 2008:

• 'New' Ancient Antarctic Sediment Reveals Climate Change History

Posted April 28, 2008:

• When Did Dinosaurs Go Extinct? Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary Dating Refined

Posted April 27, 2008:

• Dinosaurs Probably Lacked Tissue To Generate Heat

Posted April 25, 2008:

• Molecular Analysis Confirms Tyrannosaurus Rex's Evolutionary Link To Birds

Posted April 23, 2008:

• Shell-breaking Crabs Lived 20 Million Years Earlier Than Thought

Posted April 18, 2008:

• Unearthing Clues Of Catastrophic Earthquakes

Posted April 14, 2008:

• Ancient Komodo Dragon Has Space-age Skull

Posted April 11, 2008:

• Grand Canyon May Be As Old As Dinosaurs, 40-50 Million Years Older Than Previously Thought

Posted April 8, 2008:

• Tiny Bug Found In Grand Canyon Region Cave Suggests Big Biodiversity

Posted April 4, 2008:

• Fossil From Last Common Ancestor Of Neanderthals And Humans Found In Europe, 1.2 Million Years Old

Posted April 2, 2008:

• Discovery Of Oldest Known Traces Of Mineralization Caused By Micro-organisms
• Scientists Discover 356 Animal Inclusions Trapped In Opaque Amber 100 Million Years Old

Posted April 1, 2008:

• For The Paper Trail Of Life On Mars Or Other Planets, Find Cellulose

Posted March 31, 2008:

• Teenaged Dome-skulled Dinosaurs Could Really Knock Heads, Virtual Smash-ups Show

Posted March 26, 2008:

• Primitive Mouse-Like Creature May Be Ancestral Mother Of Australia's Unusual Pouched Mammals

Posted March 24, 2008:

• Good Luck Indeed: 53 Million-year-old Rabbit's Foot Bones Found

Posted March 21, 2008:

• Upright Walking Began 6 Million Years Ago, Thigh Bone Comparison Suggests

Posted March 20, 2008:

• Cause Of Death Of Russian Baby Mammoth Discovered
• Oldest Cretaceous Period Dinosaur Discovered Represents New Genus Of Prehistoric Aquatic Predator
• Skulls Of Modern Humans And Ancient Neanderthals Evolved Differently Because Of Chance, Not Natural Selection

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

Posted March 5, 2008:

• Giant Fossil Bats Out Of Africa, 35 Million Years Old

Posted March 4, 2008:

• New Discovery Of 'Old Growth' Crystals Provides New Record Of Planetary Evolution

Posted February 29, 2008:

• Enormous Jurassic Sea Predator, Pliosaur, Discovered In Norway

Posted February 26, 2008:

• 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

Posted February 19, 2008:

• Giant Frog Jumps Continents, May Have Eaten Baby Dinosaurs

Posted February 18, 2008:

• Egypt's Earliest Agricultural Settlement Unearthed

Posted February 15, 2008:

• Neanderthals Moved From Place To Place, Tooth Analysis Shows

Posted February 14, 2008:

• New Meat-eating Dinosaur Duo From Sahara Ate Like Hyenas, Sharks

Posted February 13, 2008:

• New Duck-billed Dinosaur From Mexico Offers Insights Into Ancient Life On West America

Posted February 12, 2008:

• Oldest Australian Crayfish Fossils Provide Missing Evolutionary Link
• How Did Huge Dinosaurs Find Enough Food? Did Bacteria Aid Their Digestion?

Posted February 8, 2008:

• Oldest Horseshoe Crab Fossil Found, 445 Million Years Old
• Did Birds Originate When Dinosaurs Went Extinct, Or Have They Been Around Far Longer?
• Pygmy Dinosaur Inhabited Tropical Islands In Britain's Prehistoric Past

Posted January 28, 2008:

• New Antarctic Ice Core To Provide Clearest Climate Record Yet

Posted January 22, 2008:

• 96-million-year-old Fossil Pollen Sheds Light On Early Pollinators

Posted January 18, 2008:

• Extinct Marsupial Lion Tops African Lion In Fight To Death

Posted January 15, 2008:

• Rapid Growth, Early Maturity Meant Teen Pregnancy For Dinosaurs

Posted January 14, 2008:

• Unusual Fish-eating Dinosaur Had Crocodile-like Skull

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