Paleontology News

Posted December 31, 2003:

• Working On The 'Porsche Of Its Time': New Model For Species Determination Offered

Posted December 25, 2003:

• Tropical Oceans Were Overheated During Prehistoric Greenhouse Effect

Posted December 24, 2003:

• Paleontologists Discover Pterosaur Fossils In Sahara

Posted December 19, 2003:

• Stable Isotope Data Provide Evidence For Huge Global Methane Release About 600 Million Years Ago

Posted December 12, 2003:

• Researchers Discover The Earliest Known Relative Of Marsupial Mammals

Posted December 4, 2003:

• New Fossils From Ethiopia Open A Window On Africa's "Missing Years"

Posted December 2, 2003:

• Meteor Likely Caused Earth's Greatest Extinction Event

Posted November 25, 2003:

• Book Offers Overview Of Cave Paleontology

Posted November 21, 2003:

• New Evidence Says Earth’s Greatest Extinction Caused By Ancient Meteorite

Posted November 6, 2003:

• Scientists Believe Ancient Arachnids May Have Spun Silk Like Modern Spiders

Posted November 5, 2003:

• Hydrogen Sulfide, Not Carbon Dioxide, May Have Caused Largest Mass Extinction
• Stone Tool And Bone Find Earliest Ever Excavated

Posted November 3, 2003:

• Debate Heats Up On Role Of Climate In Human Evolution

Posted October 31, 2003:

• Ultra-low Oxygen Could Have Triggered Die-offs, Spurred Bird Breathing System
• Japanese Shipwreck Adds To Evidence Of Great Cascadia Earthquake In 1700
• Pack Rat Middens Give Unique View On Evolution And Climate Change In Past Million Years
• Scientists Find Evolution Of Life Helped Keep Earth Habitable

Posted October 30, 2003:

• Not All Aerial Reptiles Were Level-headed, CT Scans Show; Inside View Of Pterosaurs’ Brain Yields Insights To Posture, Behavior

Posted October 21, 2003:

• Ghost Crab Fossils Haunt Area Beaches

Posted October 17, 2003:

• Bull Mastodons In Deadly Combat; Sound And Fury From Silent Bones

Posted September 26, 2003:

• Princeton Paleontologist Produces Evidence For New Theory On Dinosaur Extinction

Posted September 24, 2003:

• Earliest European Modern Humans Found

Posted September 23, 2003:

• Bones From French Cave Show Neanderthals, Cro-Magnon Hunted Same Prey

Posted September 22, 2003:

• Built-in Eyeshade Offers Clue To Prehistoric Past
• Guinea-zilla? World's Largest Rodent Identified As Ancient Sibling To Guinea Pigs

Posted September 19, 2003:

• Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Greater 1.4 Billion Years Ago
• Why We See Red When Looking At Ocean Plants: Rutgers Marine Scientists Say Phytoplankton Changed Color 250 Million Years Ago

Posted September 18, 2003:

• Ancient Relatives Of Algae Yield New Insights Into Role Of CO2 In Earth's Early Atmosphere

Posted September 16, 2003:

• Role Of Tropics In Global Climate Change Gains Attention

Posted September 15, 2003:

• Is This What Killed The Dinosaurs? New Evidence Supports Volcanic Eruption Theory

Posted August 15, 2003:

• New Dinosaur Rises From Fossil Bones In India
• Researchers Find A Pattern In Evolution Of Lizard Groups

Posted August 7, 2003:

• Early Hominids May Have Behaved More 'Human' Than We Had Thought

Posted June 12, 2003:

• 160,000-year-old Fossilized Skulls From Ethiopia Are Oldest Modern Humans

Posted May 19, 2003:

• Fossil Record Accurately Reflects Recent Flowering Of Marine Biodiversity

Posted May 12, 2003:

• Meteorites Rained On Earth After Massive Asteroid Breakup; Geologists Find Meteorites 100 Times More Common In Wake Of Ancient Asteroid Collision

Posted May 5, 2003:

• Fossilized Fish Act As Ancient Thermometer

Posted April 28, 2003:

• Syracuse University Geologists Raise Questions About Controversial Theory Of Species Survival

Posted April 25, 2003:

• Purdue Researchers Determine Age Of Fossilized Human Ancestor

Posted April 4, 2003:

• Fossils Show Extreme Plant Diversity In South America 50 Million Years Ago

Posted April 3, 2003:

• Dinosaur Cannibal Unearthed In Madagascar

Posted April 2, 2003:

• Fossil Teeth Reveal Oldest Bushbabies, Lorises

Posted March 27, 2003:

• New Species Of Earliest-known Salamanders Found In China

Posted March 25, 2003:

• Encrustation Provides Clues About Ancient Seas

Posted March 11, 2003:

• Strange Deadfellows: Dinosaur, Crab Fossils Reveal Ecosystem Secrets

Posted February 26, 2003:

• Fossil Records Show Methane In Seafloor Sediments Released During Periods Of Rapid Climate Warming

Posted February 25, 2003:

• Evidence Acquits Clovis People Of Ancient Killings, Archaeologists Say

Posted February 24, 2003:

• Rutgers' Tanzanian Fossil Reshuffles The Deck On Early Human Ancestry

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