Paleontology News

Posted August 9, 2005:

• New Technology Shows Our Ancestors Ate ... Everything!

Posted August 5, 2005:

• Study Shows Big Game Hunters, Not Climate Change, Killed Off Sloths

Posted July 31, 2005:

• Earliest Embryos Ever Discovered Provide Clues To Dinosaur Evolution

Posted July 27, 2005:

• Multi-Species Genome Comparison Sheds New Light On Evolutionary Processes, Cancer Mutations

Posted July 25, 2005:

• Virtual Trip To The Heart Of 400 Million Years Old Microfossils

Posted July 20, 2005:

• Ancient Diets Of Australian Birds Point To Big Ecosystem Changes

Posted July 19, 2005:

• Predatory Dinosaurs Had Bird-like Pulmonary System

Posted July 14, 2005:

• Native Lore Tells The Tale: There's Been A Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On

Posted July 10, 2005:

• Ancient Diets Of Australian Birds Point To Big Ecosystem Changes

Posted June 22, 2005:

• K-State Professor Studies How Landscape Dynamics Affect Extinction Risk For Migratory Songbirds

Posted June 17, 2005:

• Fossil Patagonian Plants Show High Insect Feeding diversity 52 Million Years Ago

Posted June 7, 2005:

• Ancient DNA Confirms Single Origin Of Malagasy Primates

Posted June 6, 2005:

• World-first Technology Enables Study Of Ancient Bacteria; Sustainable Energy Source Could Solve Bermuda Triangle Riddle

Posted June 3, 2005:

• Geologists Find First Clue To Tyrannosaurus Rex Gender In Bone Tissue

Posted June 2, 2005:

• Joint Genome Institute Sequences DNA Of Prehistoric Cave Bears

Posted May 31, 2005:

• Australia's Megafauna Coexisted With Humans

Posted May 23, 2005:

• First Ever Fossil Of Sleeping Dinosaur Found In China

Posted May 20, 2005:

• Modern Humans Or Neandertals? New Evidence Sheds Light On Cave Fossils' Age

Posted May 17, 2005:

• Stegosaur Plates And Spikes For Looks Only, Researchers Say

Posted May 5, 2005:

• Utah Dinosaur Bones Reveal Missing Link In Evolution Of Diet

Posted May 2, 2005:

• Great White Shark Evolution Debate
• Geologists' Find Is Evolutionary

Posted April 26, 2005:

• Low Level Of Extinction During Ice Age Linked To Adaptability

Posted April 18, 2005:

• Diversity, Endemism, And Age Distributions In Macroevolutionary Sources And Sinks

Posted April 14, 2005:

• Researchers Find New Giant Amphibian Fossils In Africa

Posted April 6, 2005:

• Mystery Minerals Formed In Fireball From Colliding Asteroid That Destroyed The Dinosaurs

Posted April 5, 2005:

• Fossil Records Show Biodiversity Comes And Goes

Posted April 3, 2005:

• King Tut Liked Red Wine

Posted April 1, 2005:

• University Of Florida Discovery Raises Questions About Origin Of African Mammals

Posted March 25, 2005:

• NC State Paleontologist Discovers Soft Tissue In Dinosaur Bones

Posted March 21, 2005:

• Ideas About Fossil Horses Undergo Evolution In Thinking

Posted March 11, 2005:

• New Dinosaur Raptor Found; First In Southern Hemisphere

Posted March 8, 2005:

• New Human Ancestor Fossil Discovery In Afar Region Of Ethiopia

Posted March 4, 2005:

• 'Hobbit' Fossil Likely Represents New Branch On Human Family Tree

Posted March 1, 2005:

• Global Warming Led To Atmospheric Hydrogen Sulfide And Permian Extinction

Posted February 28, 2005:

• The Oldest Homo Sapiens: Fossils Push Human Emergence Back To 195,000 Years Ago

Posted February 26, 2005:

• 'Man The Hunter' Theory Is Debunked In New Book

Posted February 24, 2005:

• New Clues Add 40,000 Years To Age Of Human Species

Posted February 16, 2005:

• Prehistoric Jawbone Reveals Evolution Repeating Itself
• Family Trees Of Ancient Bacteria Reveal Evolutionary Moves

Posted February 14, 2005:

• New Study Affirms Reliability Of Fossil Record

Posted February 7, 2005:

• UC Berkeley, French Scientists Find Missing Link Between The Whale And Its Closest Relative, The Hippo

Posted February 3, 2005:

• Dispersal Or Drift? More To Plant Biodiversity Than Meets The Eye

Posted January 31, 2005:

• Study Bolsters Greenhouse Effect Theory, Solves Ice Age Mystery

Posted January 24, 2005:

• Relatives Of Living Ducks And Chickens Existed Alongside Dinosaurs More Than 65 Million Years Ago

Posted January 23, 2005:

• New Evidence Indicates Biggest Extinction Wasn't Caused By Asteroid Or Comet

Posted January 21, 2005:

• Anthropologists Find 4.5 Million-year-old Hominid Fossils In Ethiopia

Posted January 17, 2005:

• Holes In Fossil Shells Show Effects Of Competition And Evolution

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