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Posted October 27, 2011:

• Prehistoric Greenhouse Data from Ocean Floor Could Predict Earth's Future, Study Finds

Posted October 26, 2011:

• Researchers Complete Mollusk Evolutionary Tree

Posted October 25, 2011:

• Land Animals, Ecosystems Walloped After Permian Dieoff

Posted October 20, 2011:

• First North American Hunters 1,000 Years Earlier Than Previously Thought, Speared Mastodon Fossil Shows

Posted October 19, 2011:

• Blame Backbone Fractures on Evolution, Not Osteoporosis: Adaptation to Upright Walking Leaves Humans Susceptible

Posted October 17, 2011:

• Robotic Bug Gets Wings, Sheds Light on Evolution of Flight

Posted October 14, 2011:

• Super-Sized Muscle Made Twin-Horned Dinosaur a Speedster

Posted October 13, 2011:

• Tiny Fossil Fragment Reveals Giant-but-Ugly Truth: Part of Biggest-Ever Toothed Pterosaur from Dinosaur Era

Posted October 12, 2011:

• T. Rex Was Bigger and Grew Faster Than Previously Thought, Computational Analysis Reveals

Posted October 11, 2011:

• Oldest Fossil Rodents in South America Discovered; Find Is 10 Million Years Older and Confirms Animals from Africa
• Most Vertebrates -- Including Humans -- Descended from Ancestor With Sixth Sense
• How Life Might Have Survived 'Snowball Earth'
• Worms Among First Animals to Surface After K-T Extinction Event, Study Finds

Posted October 10, 2011:

• Giant 'Kraken' Lair Discovered: Cunning Sea Monster That Preyed on Ichthyosaurs
• Terrestrial Biodiversity Recovered Faster After Permo-Triassic Extinction Than Previously Believed

Posted October 5, 2011:

• Long-Lost Lake Agassiz Offers Clues to Climate Change
• Earliest Psychomyiid Caddisfly Fossils, from 100-Million-Year-Old Burmese Amber
• A New Species of Fossil Silky Lacewing Insects That Lived More Than 120 Million Years Ago
• Aquatic Fish Jump Into Picture of Evolutionary Land Invasion

Posted October 4, 2011:

• Lungfish Provides Insight to Life on Land: 'Humans Are Just Modified Fish'
• Across the Atlantic on Flotsam: New Fossil Findings Shed Light on the Origins of the Mysterious Bird Hoatzin
• Form Follows Family -- Not Function: Humans and Chimpanzees Have Similar Long Bone Shape

Posted September 29, 2011:

• Rebuilding the Head of an Armoured Dinosaur

Posted September 26, 2011:

• New Family of Wasps Found in North American Amber, Closest Relatives in Southern Hemisphere

Posted September 21, 2011:

• Climatic Fluctuations Drove Key Events in Human Evolution, Researchers Find

Posted September 19, 2011:

• Scientists Discover Rare Theropod Dinosaur Wounded in Action in Southern Utah
• Not Just Skin Deep: CT Study of Early Humans Reveals Evolutionary Relationships
• New Technique Fills Gaps in Fossil Record
• Primitive Birds Shared Dinosaurs' Fate
• NASA's WISE Raises Doubt About Asteroid Family Believed Responsible for Dinosaur Extinction

Posted September 15, 2011:

• Tree Resin Captures Evolution of Feathers on Dinosaurs and Birds

Posted September 14, 2011:

• Ancient Crocodile Competed With Titanoboa, World's Largest Snake, for Food, Paleontologists Discover
• Woolly Mammoth's Secrets for Shrugging Off Cold Points Toward New Artificial Blood for Humans
• Fossil of an Armored Dinosaur Hatchling: Youngest Nodosaur Ever Discovered

Posted September 12, 2011:

• New Species of Ancient Predatory Fish Discovered

Posted September 10, 2011:

• Tiny Teeth Indicate Ancient Shark Nurseries

Posted September 8, 2011:

• 800,000 Years of Abrupt Climate Variability: Earth's Climate Is Capable of Very Rapid Transitions
• Australopithecus Sediba Paved the Way for Homo Species, New Studies Suggest

Posted September 5, 2011:

• Ancient Humans Were Mixing It Up: Anatomically Modern Humans Interbred With More Archaic Hominin Forms While in Africa

Posted September 3, 2011:

• Rock Rafts Could Be 'Cradle of Life'

Posted September 1, 2011:

• Woolly Rhino Fossil Discovery in Tibet Provides Important Clues to Evolution of Ice Age Giants

Posted August 24, 2011:

• Discovery of a 160-Million-Year-Old Fossil Represents a New Milestone in Early Mammal Evolution

Posted August 23, 2011:

• Ancient 'Daddy Long Legs' Revealed in 3-D Models

Posted August 22, 2011:

• Not So Fast: Lasting Evolutionary Change Takes About One Million Years, Researchers Find
• Ancient Whale Skulls and Directional Hearing: A Twisted Tale
• Ancient Clams Yield New Information About Greenhouse Effect on Climate

Posted August 21, 2011:

• Oldest Fossils on Earth Discovered

Posted August 17, 2011:

• Getting Inside the Mind (and Up the Nose) of Our Ancient Ancestors

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