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Posted November 11, 2009:

• Warm-blooded Dinosaurs Worked Up A Sweat
• Central Africa's Tropical Congo Basin Was Arid, Treeless In Late Jurassic

Posted November 10, 2009:

• New Fossil Plant Discovery Links Patagonia To New Guinea In A Warmer Past
• Ancient Penguin DNA Raises Doubts About Accuracy Of Genetic Dating Techniques

Posted November 8, 2009:

• Seafloor Fossils Provide Clues To Climate Change

Posted November 6, 2009:

• Male Sabertoothed Cats Were Pussycats Compared To Macho Lions
• 'Duck-billed' Dinosaurs: Last European Hadrosaurs Lived In Iberian Peninsula

Posted November 5, 2009:

• Portable 3-D Laser Technology Preserves Texas Dinosaur's Rare Footprint

Posted November 4, 2009:

• Earliest Tyrannosauroid Rediscovered

Posted November 3, 2009:

• New Clues To Extinct Falklands Wolf Mystery

Posted November 2, 2009:

• Terrible Teens Of T. Rex: Young Tyrannosaurs Did Serious Battle Against Each Other
• Snail Fossils Suggest Semiarid Eastern Canary Islands Were Wetter 50,000 Years Ago

Posted November 1, 2009:

• Newly Discovered Ankylosaur Dinosaur Is 'Biological Version Of An Army Tank'

Posted October 31, 2009:

• New Analyses Of Dinosaur Growth May Wipe Out One-third Of Species

Posted October 30, 2009:

• Largest Bat In Europe Inhabited Northeastern Spain More Than 10,000 Years Ago
• New Wrinkle In Ancient Ocean Chemistry

Posted October 27, 2009:

• Novel Evolutionary Theory For The Explosion Of Life
• Climate Events Let Ice Age Mammoths Pass Far Below 40 Degrees North Latitude

Posted October 26, 2009:

• Tsunami Waves Reasonably Likely To Strike Israel, Geo-archaeological Research Suggests
• Ancient 'Monster' Insect: 'Unicorn' Fly Never Before Observed

Posted October 24, 2009:

• Ethiopia's Climate 27 Million Years Ago Had Higher Rainfall, Warmer Soil

Posted October 23, 2009:

• Ancient Bison Genetic Treasure Trove For Farmers

Posted October 22, 2009:

• Geologist Analyzes Earliest Shell-covered Fossil Animals

Posted October 21, 2009:

• Tool-making Human Ancestors Inhabited Grassland Environments Two Million Years Ago
• Fracture Zones Endanger Tombs In Valley Of Kings

Posted October 20, 2009:

• Bedrock Of A Holy City: The Historical Importance Of Jerusalem's Geology
• Shark Teeth Provide Key To North Sea’s Climatic Past

Posted October 15, 2009:

• Giant Impact Near India -- Not Mexico -- May Have Doomed Dinosaurs

Posted October 14, 2009:

• Crushed Bones Reveal Literal Dino Stomping Ground
• New Type Of Flying Reptile: Darwin's Pterodactyl Preyed On Flying Dinosaurs

Posted October 13, 2009:

• First Neotropical Rainforest Was Home Of The Titanoboa -- World's Biggest Snake
• Sex In The Caribbean: Environmental Change Drives Evolutionary Change, Eventually

Posted October 9, 2009:

• Archaeopteryx Was Not Very Bird-like: Inside The First Bird, Surprising Signs Of A Dinosaur
• New Mesozoic Mammal: Discovery Illuminates Mammalian Ear Evolution While Dinosaurs Ruled
• Last Time Carbon Dioxide Levels Were This High: 15 Million Years Ago, Scientists Report

Posted October 8, 2009:

• Early Hominid First Walked On Two Legs In The Woods
• Trackway Analysis Shows How Dinosaurs Coped With Slippery Slopes

Posted October 7, 2009:

• Rare Evidence Of Dinosaur Cannibalism: Meat-Eater Tooth Found In Gorgosaurus Jawbone
• Climate Change Triggered Dwarfism In Soil-dwelling Creatures Of The Past

Posted October 5, 2009:

• Bizarre New Horned Tyrannosaur From Asia: Carnivorous But Smaller T. Rex Relative 'Like Ballerina'

Posted October 3, 2009:

• Quick Rebound From Marine Mass Extinction Event, New Findings Show

Posted October 2, 2009:

• New Ancient Fungus Finding Suggests World's Forests Were Wiped Out In Global Catastrophe
• Algae And Pollen Grains Provide Evidence Of Remarkably Warm Period In Antarctica's History

Posted October 1, 2009:

• Ancient Rainforests Resilient To Climate Change
• Before 'Lucy,' There Was 'Ardi': First Major Analysis Of Early Hominid Published In Science
• Rediscovering The Dragon's Paradise Lost: Komodo Dragons Most Likely Evolved In Australia, Dispersed To Indonesia

Posted September 30, 2009:

• Was Mighty T. Rex 'Sue' Felled By A Lowly Parasite?

Posted September 29, 2009:

• Feathery Four-winged Dinosaur Fossil Found In China Bridges Transition To Birds

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