Paleontology News

Posted January 17, 2005:

• Holes In Fossil Shells Show Effects Of Competition And Evolution

Posted January 13, 2005:

• Drilled Shells Show Extinction's Lasting Effects

Posted January 11, 2005:

• Ancient DNA Helps Solve The Legend Of Giant Eagles

Posted December 24, 2004:

• Research Points To New Theory Driving Evolutionary Changes
• Major Climate Change Occurred 5,200 Years Ago: Evidence Suggests That History Could Repeat Itself

Posted December 10, 2004:

• Regional Recovery More Rapid Following Late Ordovician Extinction

Posted December 8, 2004:

• When Earth Turned Bad: New Evidence Supports Terrestrial Cause Of End-Permian Mass Extinction
• Revisiting The Vertebrate Invasion Of The Land

Posted December 2, 2004:

• Say Goodbye To Rudolph, Other Reindeer If Global Warming Continues
• URI Researcher Shows That Dinosaur Extinction Occurred At Peak Of Diversity

Posted November 30, 2004:

• New Method To Measure Ancient Land Elevation Developed By Field Museum Scientist
• Ocean’s Mud-dwellers Provide Clues To The Impact Extinction Can Have On Ecosystems

Posted November 25, 2004:

• Poisoning Solved After Millions Of Years: Did Death-dealing Cyanobacteria Cause The Mass Deaths Of Messel?
• Genome Of Ancient Fish Could Reveal Evolutionary Mysteries, Stanford Scientists Say

Posted November 24, 2004:

• New Fossil May Be Closest Yet To Ancestor Of All Great Apes

Posted November 19, 2004:

• Sea Change: Skeletons Of Ancient Corals Different From Today's

Posted November 18, 2004:

• Pitt Student Discovers New Genus, Species Of Ancient Amphibian
• Ancient Creature Fossilized By The Bacteria That Ate It

Posted November 17, 2004:

• Dinosaurs In Bullet-proof Vests

Posted November 16, 2004:

• Ancient Marine Invasion Sheds Light On Diversity
• Scientists Advocate Genomic Sequencing Of 'Living Fossil'

Posted November 15, 2004:

• Ancient Fossil Offers New Clues To Brown Bears Past
• Are Museum Collections Of Ancient Life Representative?

Posted November 12, 2004:

• Seismosaur Cut Down To Size

Posted November 11, 2004:

• Crucial Evolutionary Link Points To Origins Of Modern Cells
• Earliest Tracks Of 4-Legged Stroll
• Plentiful Fossils Of Dinosaur Contemporary Allow Population Study
• Honeybees Defy Dino-killing 'Nuclear Winter'
• Sea Change: Skeletons Of Ancient Corals Different From Today's

Posted November 9, 2004:

• Ecosystem Remodelling Among Vertebrates During The Permian-Triassic Extinction

Posted November 5, 2004:

• Who Laid The First Egg? Scientists Move A Step Closer To Linking Embryos Of Earth's First Animals To Adult Form

Posted November 1, 2004:

• Darwin's Greatest Challenge Tackled: The Mystery Of Eye Evolution

Posted October 29, 2004:

• Emory Study Details Dolphin Brain Evolution For The First Time

Posted October 28, 2004:

• Fossil Suggests Long Neck Made This Reptile An Effective Predator

Posted October 22, 2004:

• Ancient Sea Spider Fossils Discovered In Volcanic Ash

Posted October 18, 2004:

• Arctic Mystery No Longer: Dinosaurs Walked Canada's Great North

Posted October 14, 2004:

• Laboratory Test Of Evolutionary Theory Confirms Importance Of Links Between Populations

Posted October 11, 2004:

• Old Bones Unearth New Date For Giant Deer's Last Stand

Posted October 5, 2004:

• Of Lice And Men: Parasite Genes Reveal Modern & Archaic Humans Made Contact

Posted October 4, 2004:

• Climate Change Plus Human Pressure Caused Large Mammal Extinctions In Late Pleistocene

Posted October 1, 2004:

• Out Of Africa: Scientists Find Earliest Evidence Yet Of Human Presence In Northeast Asia

Posted September 27, 2004:

• 'Fossil Genes' Reveal How Life Sheds Form And Function

Posted September 24, 2004:

• A Long-necked Sea Predator From China Described In Science

Posted September 13, 2004:

• A New Tribe?

Posted September 8, 2004:

• Broken Arms And Collateral Damage: Clues To Predator-driven Evolution
• Fossils Reveal Direct Link Between Global Warming And Genetic Diversity In Wildlife

Posted September 3, 2004:

• Chimp-sized Hominid Walked Upright On Two Legs Six Million Years Ago
• Neanderthal Life No Tougher Than That Of 'Modern' Inuits

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