Paleontology News

Posted April 30, 2007:

• How To Look At Dinosaur Tracks

Posted April 24, 2007:

• Prehistoric Mystery Organism Verified As Giant Fungus

Posted April 23, 2007:

• Earth's First Rainforest Unearthed

Posted April 18, 2007:

• Placental Mammals Newer Than Previously Thought

Posted April 17, 2007:

• Ancient Amphibians Evolved A Bite Before Migrating To Dry Land

Posted April 16, 2007:

• Disputing Coevolution In Herbivorous Insects: Do We Need A Paradigm Change?

Posted April 13, 2007:

• New Primate Species Found In 42 Million-Year-Old Texas Fossils
• Treasure Trove Of Fossils Found In Limestone Cave

Posted April 12, 2007:

• Tyrannosaurus Rex And Mastodon Protein Fragments Discovered, Sequenced

Posted April 4, 2007:

• Why Are There So Many More Species Of Insects? Because Insects Have Been Here Longer

Posted April 3, 2007:

• China's Earliest Modern Human

Posted March 29, 2007:

• Deep-Diving West Coast Plate May Have Triggered Massive Central U.S. Quake
• Dinosaur Extinction Didn't Cause The Rise Of Present-Day Mammals, Claim Researchers
• Greenhouse Gas Effect Consistent Over 420 Million Years

Posted March 26, 2007:

• Researchers Uncover New Burrowing Dinosaur

Posted March 24, 2007:

• New Evidence Of 'Human' Culture Among Primates

Posted March 23, 2007:

• Fossil Discovery Marks Earliest Record Of Limbloss In Ancient Lizard
• Global Warming Could Be Reversing A Trend That Led To Bigger Human Brains

Posted March 20, 2007:

• No Sex For 40 Million Years? No Problem

Posted March 19, 2007:

• Jurassic Crocodile Is Unearthed From Blue Mountains In Eastern Oregon
• Long Legs Are More Efficient, According To New Math Model

Posted March 15, 2007:

• Paleontologists Discover New Mammal From Mesozoic Era
• Newly Identified Species Of Spiny Snail-Like Creature, 505 Million Year Old, Described

Posted March 14, 2007:

• How Long Is A Child A Child? Human Developmental Patterns Emerged More Than 160,000 Years Ago

Posted March 13, 2007:

• Caribbean Extinctions Occurred Two Million Years After Apparent Cause

Posted March 8, 2007:

• Human Pubic Lice Acquired From Gorillas Gives Evolutionary Clues
• Despite Their Heft, Many Dinosaurs Had Surprisingly Tiny Genomes

Posted March 5, 2007:

• Scientist Discovers New Horned Dinosaur Genus

Posted March 2, 2007:

• Improved Predictions Of Warming-Induced Extinctions Sought; Species Persist More Than Models Assume, Researchers Say

Posted March 1, 2007:

• Ancient Retrovirus Is Resurrected

Posted February 28, 2007:

• Birth Rate, Competition Are Major Players In Hominid Extinctions

Posted February 27, 2007:

• From Icehouse To Hothouse: Melting Ice And Rising Carbon Dioxide Caused Climate Shift

Posted February 26, 2007:

• An Ancient Greenhouse Window Into The Future

Posted February 24, 2007:

• Experimental Evolution In Robots Probes The Emergence Of Biological Communication

Posted February 19, 2007:

• Hunting Martian Fossils Best Bet For Locating Mars Life, Says Researcher

Posted February 12, 2007:

• No Missing Link? Evolutionary Changes Occur Suddenly, Professor Says

Posted February 8, 2007:

• Largest North America Climate Change In 65 Million Years, Study Shows

Posted January 29, 2007:

• Does Evolution Select For Faster Evolvers? Horizontal Gene Transfer Adds To Complexity, Speed Of Evolution

Posted January 28, 2007:

• Researcher Creates First Temperature Record For The Great Plains

Posted January 24, 2007:

• How Fishes Conquered The Ocean
• 'Terror Bird' Arrived In North America Before Land Bridge, Study Finds

Posted January 23, 2007:

• Who Laid The First Egg? Scientists Closer To Linking Embryos Of Earth's First Animals And Their Adult Form
• Paleontologists Discover Most Primitive Primate Skeleton

Posted January 18, 2007:

• Toward More Effective Paleolgenetic Analysis

Posted January 16, 2007:

• Big Vegetarian Mammals Can Play A Critical Role In Maintaining Healthy Ecosystems, Study Finds
• Why Are Lions Not As Big As Elephants?
• 40,000-Year-Old Skull Shows Both Modern Human And Neandertal Traits

Posted January 15, 2007:

• Rare Plant From Dinosaur Age

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