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Posted August 26, 2008:

• New Evidence Debunks 'Stupid' Neanderthal Myth

Posted August 23, 2008:

• New Climate Record Shows Century-long Droughts In Eastern North America

Posted August 15, 2008:

• Stone Age Graveyard Reveals Lifestyles Of A 'Green Sahara'

Posted August 8, 2008:

• Complete Neanderthal Mitochondrial Genome Sequenced From 38,000-year-old Bone

Posted August 6, 2008:

• Duck-billed Dinosaurs Outgrew Predators To Survive
• Antarctic Fossils Paint Picture Of Much Warmer Continent

Posted August 5, 2008:

• Little Teeth Suggest Big Jump In Primate Timeline

Posted August 1, 2008:

• Cold And Ice, Not Heat, Episodically Gripped Tropical Regions 300 Million Years Ago

Posted July 30, 2008:

• Did Dinosaur Soft Tissues Still Survive? New Research Challenges Notion

Posted July 29, 2008:

• Piecing Together An Extinct Lemur, Large As A Big Baboon

Posted July 24, 2008:

• Dinosaurs Did Not Evolve Quickly In Last 50 Million Years, New Dinosaur Super-tree Shows
• Predynastic Human Presence Discovered By Core Drilling At The Northern Nile Delta Coast, Egypt

Posted July 23, 2008:

• Unique Fossil Discovery Shows Antarctic Was Once Much Warmer
• New Evidence Of Battle Between Humans And Ancient Virus

Posted July 18, 2008:

• Volcanic Eruptions May Have Wiped Out Ocean Life 94 Million Years Ago

Posted July 16, 2008:

• Europe's Ancestors: Cro-Magnon 28,000 Years Old Had DNA Like Modern Humans
• Big Predatory Mammals Such As Felines Need Between 5 And 7 Different Types Of Prey To Meet Their Dietary Needs

Posted July 15, 2008:

• Two Extinct Flying Reptiles Compared: One Was A Glider, The Other A Parachutist

Posted July 14, 2008:

• Disproving Conventional Wisdom On Diversity Of Marine Fossils And Extinction Rates

Posted July 10, 2008:

• Flatfish Fossils Fill In Evolutionary Missing Link

Posted July 9, 2008:

• Big Brains Arose Twice In Higher Primates
• Fossil Feathers Preserve Evidence Of Color, Say Scientists

Posted July 7, 2008:

• Ancient Marine Invertebrate Diversity Less Explosive Than Thought

Posted July 3, 2008:

• Exploding Asteroid Theory Strengthened By New Evidence Located In Ohio, Indiana

Posted July 2, 2008:

• Newcomer In Early Eurafrican Population?

Posted June 30, 2008:

• Canine Tooth Strength Provides Clues To Behavior Of Early Human Ancestors

Posted June 16, 2008:

• Uncovering The Truth Behind The Largest Marsupial To Walk The Earth
• Sea's Ebb And Flow Drive World's Big Extinction Events, Study Suggests

Posted June 15, 2008:

• Australian Dinosaur Found To Have South American Heritage

Posted June 13, 2008:

• Mysterious Mountain Dinosaur May Be New Species

Posted June 12, 2008:

• Woolly Mammoth Gene Study Changes Extinction Theory
• Fossils Found In Tibet Revise History Of Elevation, Climate

Posted June 8, 2008:

• Fossilized Burrows 245 Million Years Old Suggest Lizard-like Creatures In Antarctica

Posted June 6, 2008:

• Fish 380 Million Years Old Found With Unborn Embryo
• Dinosaur Diggers Bring Mobile Lab, New Techniques To Eastern Montana

Posted June 5, 2008:

• Rewriting Greenland's Immigration History

Posted May 30, 2008:

• Did Walking On Two Feet Begin With A Shuffle?

Posted May 28, 2008:

• Giant Flying Reptiles Preferred To Walk

Posted May 21, 2008:

• Ancient Amphibian: Debate Over Origin Of Frogs And Salamanders Settled With Discovery Of Missing Link
• First Dinosaur Tracks Discovered On Arabian Peninsula

Posted May 20, 2008:

• World First Discovery: Genes From Extinct Tasmanian Tiger Function In A Mouse

Posted May 17, 2008:

• Parrot Fossil 55 Million Years Old Discovered In Scandinavia

Posted May 8, 2008:

• Animal Interaction Behind Cambrian Explosion? 'Missing' Ancestors Of Today's Animals May Not Be Missing After All

Posted May 6, 2008:

• Dinosaur Bones Reveal Ancient Bug Bites

Posted May 5, 2008:

• Asteroid Impact 65 Million Years Ago Triggered A Global Hail Of Carbon Beads

Posted May 2, 2008:

• Sun's Movement Through Milky Way Regularly Sends Comets Hurtling, Coinciding With Mass Life Extinctions

Posted May 1, 2008:

• Ancient Ecosystems Organized Much Like Our Own

Posted April 30, 2008:

• 'New' Ancient Antarctic Sediment Reveals Climate Change History

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