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Posted July 7, 2009:

• Largest Carnivorous Dinosaur Tooth Ever Found In Spain
• Ferns Took To The Trees And Thrived During Cretaceous Period

Posted July 3, 2009:

• Triple Fossil Find Puts Australia Back On The Dinosaur Map

Posted July 2, 2009:

• Giant Moa Rebuilt Using Ancient DNA From Prehistoric Feathers
• Plants Save The Earth From An Icy Doom
• Mid-Pliocene Asian Monsoon Intensification And The Onset Of Northern Hemisphere Glaciation

Posted July 1, 2009:

• New Fossil Primate Suggests Common Asian Ancestor, Challenges Primates Such As 'Ida'

Posted June 30, 2009:

• Dino Tooth Sheds New Light On Ancient Riddle: Major Group Of Dinosaurs Had Unique Way Of Eating

Posted June 25, 2009:

• Ancient Climate Change: When Palm Trees Gave Way To Spruce Trees
• Latest In Technology Looks Into Some Old Bones

Posted June 23, 2009:

• How Big A Role Does Chance Play In The History Of Life?
• 54-Million-Year-Old Skull Reveals Early Evolution Of Primate Brains
• Social Competition May Be Reason For Bigger Brain

Posted June 22, 2009:

• Dinosaurs May Have Been Smaller Than Previously Thought

Posted June 19, 2009:

• Sudden Collapse In Ancient Biodiversity: Was Global Warming The Culprit?
• Size Did Matter: Evidence Of Giant Sperm Found In Microfossils

Posted June 18, 2009:

• Mammoths Survived In Britain Until 14,000 Years Ago, New Discovery Suggests
• Humans More Related To Orangutans Than Chimps, Study Suggests
• Beaked, Bird-Like Dinosaur Tells Story Of Finger Evolution

Posted June 17, 2009:

• Ancient Ice Age, Once Regarded As Brief 'Blip' Found To Have Lasted For 30 Million Years
• Sands Of Gobi Desert Yield New Species Of Nut-Cracking Dinosaur
• Fossil Teeth Of Three-Toed Browsing Horse Found In Panama Canal Earthworks

Posted June 16, 2009:

• Sediment Yields Climate Record For Past Half-Million Years

Posted June 10, 2009:

• Fossil Bone Bed Helps Reconstruct Life Along California's Ancient Coastline

Posted June 9, 2009:

• Discovery Raises New Doubts About Dinosaur-Bird Links
• Mobile DNA Elements In Woolly Mammoth Genome Give New Clues To Mammalian Evolution

Posted June 3, 2009:

• Ancient Mammals Shifted Diets As Climate Changed

Posted June 2, 2009:

• New Hominid 12 Million Years Old Found In Spain, With 'Modern' Facial Features

Posted June 1, 2009:

• High Arctic Mammals Wintered In Darkness 53 Million Years Ago

Posted May 30, 2009:

• Ancient Volcanic Eruptions Caused Global Mass Extinction

Posted May 29, 2009:

• Virtual Reconstruction Of A Neanderthal Woman’s Birth Canal Reveals Insights Into Evolution Of Human Child Birth

Posted May 27, 2009:

• Giant Dinosaur Posture Is All Wrong: Sauropods Held Their Heads High, Research Finds
• Microfossils Challenge Prevailing Views Of 'Snowball Earth' Glaciations On Life

Posted May 26, 2009:

• Link Between Sociality And Brain Increase In Carnivores Questioned By Evolutionary Biologists

Posted May 19, 2009:

• Common Ancestor Of Humans, Modern Primates? 'Extraordinary' Fossil Is 47 Million Years Old
• Insight Into Evolution Of First Flowers

Posted May 18, 2009:

• Fossil Of 'Giant' Shrew Nearly One Million Years Old Found In Spain

Posted May 16, 2009:

• Peruvian Stalagmites Hold Clues To Climate Change

Posted May 15, 2009:

• Competition May Have Led To New Dinosaur Species In Northwestern Alberta
• Oldest Example Of Mutualism: Termites And Protozoa Discovered Together In Ancient Amber

Posted May 8, 2009:

• Filling The Gap In The Fossil Record
• Small Brain Of Dwarf 'Hobbit' Explained By Hippo's Island Life

Posted May 6, 2009:

• 'Hobbits' Couldn't Hustle: Feet Of Homo Floresiensis Were Primitive But Not Pathological

Posted May 5, 2009:

• Giant Trilobites And Trilobite Clusters From The Ordovician Of Portugal

Posted May 1, 2009:

• Dinosaur-Bird Link: Ancient Proteins Preserved In Soft Tissue From 80 Million-Year-Old Hadrosaur
• Dynamite Used To Reveal New Layer Of Dinosaur Fossils

Posted April 30, 2009:

• Tiny Differences In Our Genes Help Shed Light On The Big Picture Of Human History
• Analysis Finds Strong Match Between Molecular, Fossil Data In Evolutionary Studies

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