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Posted October 21, 2006:

• Mass Extinction's Cause: 'Sick Earth'

Posted October 19, 2006:

• West Australian Fossil Find Rewrites Land Mammal Evolution

Posted October 18, 2006:

• Learning To Live With Oxygen On Early Earth

Posted October 16, 2006:

• Possible Evidence Of Cell Division, Differentiation Found In Oldest Known Embryo Fossils

Posted October 9, 2006:

• Evidence From Ice Age That Climate Change Can Have A Rapid Effect On Ocean Circulation
• Compelling Evidence Demonstrates That 'Hobbit' Fossil Does Not Represent A New Species Of Hominid

Posted October 7, 2006:

• Researchers Link Ice Age Climate-Change Records To Ocean Salinity

Posted October 6, 2006:

• Fossils Pinpoint Tropics As Earth's Most Fruitful Biodiversity Spawning Ground

Posted October 3, 2006:

• Anthropologist Challenges Species Identification Of Ancient Child Skeleton Found In Ethiopia

Posted October 2, 2006:

• 'Carnivorous' Coelophysis Dinosaur Fossil Re-Examined -- Last Meal Was Primitive Crocodile

Posted September 28, 2006:

• Dinosaurs' Climate Shifted Too, Reports Show
• Geologists Help Find And Explain Earliest Known Human Ancestor Child

Posted September 22, 2006:

• Ancient Birds Flew On All-Fours
• Pregnant Prehistoric Fossil Offers Clues To Past

Posted September 21, 2006:

• Earliest Baby Girl Ever Discovered: Australopithecus Afarensis Child Sheds Light On Human Evolution

Posted September 15, 2006:

• Paleontologists Find 67 Dinosaurs In One Week

Posted September 11, 2006:

• Ocean Seep Mollusks May Share Evolutionary History With Other Deep-Sea Creatures

Posted September 8, 2006:

• Modern Humans, Not Neandertals, May Be Evolution's 'Odd Man Out'

Posted September 6, 2006:

• Good Times Ahead For Dinosaur Hunters, According To Dinosaur Census

Posted August 30, 2006:

• Ancient Raptors Likely Feasted On Early Man, Study Suggests

Posted August 28, 2006:

• How Modern Were European Neanderthals?

Posted August 26, 2006:

• Insect Predation Sheds Light On Food Web Recovery After The Dinosaur Extinction

Posted August 25, 2006:

• No Hobbits In This Shire: Researchers Say Skeletal Remains Are Pygmy Ancestors

Posted August 24, 2006:

• Australian Geologists Date World's Oldest Discovered Open Caves At 340 Million Years

Posted August 23, 2006:

• Clock In The Rock: Geologist Leads Effort To Measure Earth's History
• Burning Wetlands Unleash Sequestered Mercury In Wake Of Climate Change

Posted August 12, 2006:

• Ancient Arctic Water Cycles Are Red Flags To Future Global Warming

Posted August 10, 2006:

• Paleontologist Discovers South American Mammal Fossils

Posted August 9, 2006:

• Looking At The Dawn Of Life: Detailed Images Of Embryos More Than 500 Million Years Old

Posted August 7, 2006:

• Ancient Bison Teeth Provide Window On Past Great Plains Climate, Vegetation

Posted July 26, 2006:

• Scientists Discover Evolutionary Origin Of Fins, Limbs
• Ancient Global Warming Drove Early Primates' Dispersal

Posted July 20, 2006:

• Neandertal Genome To Be Deciphered

Posted July 18, 2006:

• Paleontologists Establish First Age Distribution Of Non-Avian Dinosaur Population

Posted July 13, 2006:

• Tyrannosaur Survivorship -- Tough Times For Teens
• Scientists Discover An Ancient Predator-Prey Relationship

Posted July 12, 2006:

• Large Dinosaurs Were Extremely Hot In Their Day, Study Finds

Posted July 11, 2006:

• Math And Fossils Resolve A Debate On Dinosaur Metabolism

Posted July 9, 2006:

• Ancient Raindrops Reveal The Origins Of California's Sierra Nevada Range

Posted July 6, 2006:

• Discovery Of Genetic Mutation In Florida Beach Mice Suggests Extinct Mammoth Had Light And Dark Fur

Posted June 27, 2006:

• First Compilation Of Tropical Ice Cores Shows Abrupt Global Climate Shifts

Posted June 26, 2006:

• Bones Of Baby Ice Age Sloth Carefully Reconstructed

Posted June 25, 2006:

• Spider Silk Researchers Uncover Treasure Trove Of Genetic Information About The Wonder Fibers

Posted June 24, 2006:

• Earliest Known 'Bling' Revealed

Posted June 15, 2006:

• Early Bird Caught The Fish: Fossils Depict Aquatic Origins Of Birds 115 Million Years Ago

Posted June 14, 2006:

• Retired Professor Captures A 'Living Fossil' -- Laotian Rock Rat Once Believed To Have Gone Extinct

Posted June 12, 2006:

• Parallel Evolution: Proteins Do It, Too

Posted June 8, 2006:

• Mini-Dinosaurs From The Harz Mountains: Bones Are Of Dwarf Sauropods

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