Paleontology News

Posted November 8, 2001:

• Why The Big Animals Went Down In The Pleistocene: Was It Just The Climate?

Posted November 7, 2001:

• University Of Cincinnati Geologist Finds Survival Benefit To Evolving After Mass Extinctions
• Tiniest Paleozoic Sea Creatures Were Lunch Of Choice

Posted November 2, 2001:

• Yale And University Of Chicago Researchers Discover 40-Foot Crocodile Fossil, Possibly The Largest Known So Far

Posted October 25, 2001:

• Blame North America Megafauna Extinction On Climate Change, Not Human Ancestors

Posted October 17, 2001:

• Student Discovers Well-Preserved Embryo In Dinosaur Egg

Posted September 24, 2001:

• Surprising Link Between Body Size And Extinction Risk

Posted September 20, 2001:

• New Fossils Suggest Whales And Hippos Are Close Kin

Posted September 14, 2001:

• Pre-Neandertal Humans Developed Social Skills Earlier Than Thought

Posted August 10, 2001:

• First Land Plants And Fungi Changed Earth's Climate, Paving The Way For Explosive Evolution Of Land Animals, New Gene Study Suggests

Posted August 3, 2001:

• Dinosaurs' Large Noses May Have Been Key To Physiological Processes

Posted August 2, 2001:

• New Long-Necked Dinosaur Discovered In Madagascar

Posted July 31, 2001:

• Dinosaurs Grew Rapidly, Say Florida State University Researchers

Posted July 13, 2001:

• Soil Suggests Early Humans Lived In Forests Instead Of Grasslands

Posted July 12, 2001:

• Earliest Human Ancestors Discovered In Ethiopia; Discovery Of Bones And Teeth Date Fossils Back More Than 5.2 Million Years

Posted June 11, 2001:

• Earliest Efficient Chewing Herbivore Ever Found Spurred Animal Life On Land

Posted June 8, 2001:

• Humans Hunted Mammals To Extinction In North America

Posted June 1, 2001:

• Discovery Of "Tidal Giant" -- A New Egyptian Dinosaur -- Reported In Science

Posted May 25, 2001:

• Researchers Discover Fossil Of Tiny Mammal From Early Jurassic; Discovery Provides Important New Evidence On The Earliest Evolution Of Mammals

Posted May 18, 2001:

• Changes In Sun’s Intensity Tied To Recurrent Droughts In Maya Region

Posted May 17, 2001:

• Paleontologists Develop Major New Fossil Database: Preliminary Analysis Questions Reality Of Recent Global Radiation

Posted May 16, 2001:

• New Technique Illuminates Events Obscured In The Geologic Record

Posted May 11, 2001:

• Collapse Of Simple Life Forms Linked To Mass Extinction 200 Million Years Ago

Posted April 27, 2001:

• First Dinosaur Found With Its Body Covering Intact; Displays Primitive Feathers From Head To Toe

Posted April 6, 2001:

• What Was Eating Clams And Brachiopods 250 Million Years Ago, Before Modern Predators?

Posted April 5, 2001:

• Oily Fossils Provide Clues To The Evolution Of Flowers

Posted April 3, 2001:

• Major Fossil Find Reveals Asian Origins Of Salamanders

Posted March 28, 2001:

• Ancient Tick Found In New Jersey Leaves Experts Guessing

Posted February 8, 2001:

• Texas A&M Field School Discoveries May Rewrite History Of Early North American Man

Posted January 25, 2001:

• New Predatory Dog-Sized Dinosaur Unearthed On Madagascar

Posted January 12, 2001:

• New Fossil Study Rejects "Eve Theory" And Supports Diverse Ancestry Of Modern Humans

Posted January 11, 2001:

• New Fossil Found In Mongolia Provides Insight Into The Origin Of Living Birds And The Evolution Of Flight

Posted December 4, 2000:

• Researchers Expand Dating Of Marine Animals To Brachiopods

Posted November 21, 2000:

• Fossil Teeth Of Extinct North American Rhinos Reveal An Aquatic Lifestyle Similar To Modern Hippos

Posted November 20, 2000:

• New Rare Dinosaur Tracksite Found In Northern Wyoming

Posted November 3, 2000:

• Newly Found Bipedal Reptile Fossil Predates Dinosaurs By More Than 60 Million Years

Posted October 24, 2000:

• Dinosaurs: New Study Counters Age-Old Theory
• Astrobiologists Probe A Desert Galapagos To See Evolution's Great Leap

Posted October 20, 2000:

• Finding By Syracuse University And University Of Michigan Researchers Reveals Secret To Mass Extinction Events

Posted October 19, 2000:

• Geologist Discovers Vertebra Pointing To Sea Level Rise

Posted September 14, 2000:

• New Evidence Indicates Huge Vegetation Loss Accompanied Mass Extinction

Posted August 10, 2000:

• Microscopic Bone Evidence Supports Dinosaur-Bird Evolution Link

Posted July 31, 2000:

• Reefs And Atolls Of The Australian Outback

Posted June 27, 2000:

• Discovery Of Fossil Mollusks In Alaska Links Histories Of Arctic Ocean And Isthmus Of Panama

Posted June 26, 2000:

• Ancient Feathered Animal Challenges Dinosaur-Bird Link
• UF Researchers Find Oldest Bones Of New Giant Ground Sloth Species

Posted June 13, 2000:

• Meaty Discovery: Neandertal Bone Chemistry Provides Food For Thought

Posted June 12, 2000:

• Discovery Of Fossil Mollusks In Alaska Links Histories Of Arctic Ocean And Isthmus Of Panama

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