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Posted April 30, 2009:

• Evidence Of The 'Lost World': Did Dinosaurs Survive The End Cretaceous Extinctions?

Posted April 29, 2009:

• Google Earth Aids Discovery Of Early African Mammal Fossils

Posted April 28, 2009:

• New Blow Against Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Theory, Geologists Find
• The Life That Escaped Darwin’s Notice

Posted April 22, 2009:

• Tyrannosaur 'Missing Link' Among New Dinosaurs From China

Posted April 18, 2009:

• Alligators Hint At What Life May Have Been Like For Dinosaurs

Posted April 17, 2009:

• Mega-Droughts In Sub-Saharan Africa Normal For Region: Droughts Likely To Worsen With Climate Change

Posted April 16, 2009:

• Prehistoric Turtle Goes To Hospital For CT Scan In Search For Skull, Eggs, Embryos

Posted April 15, 2009:

• Three Neanderthal Sub-Groups Confirmed

Posted April 13, 2009:

• Prehistoric Bears Ate Everything And Anything, Just Like Modern Cousins

Posted April 9, 2009:

• Earth Under Global Cooling
• Ancient Diatoms Lead To New Technology For Solar Energy

Posted March 29, 2009:

• Early Agriculture Left Traces In Animal Bones

Posted March 25, 2009:

• Evolution Of Fins And Limbs Linked With That Of Gills

Posted March 24, 2009:

• Genomic Fossils In Lemurs Shed Light On Origin And Evolution Of HIV And Other Primate Lentiviruses
• Triceratops Was A Social Animal, Group Of Dinosaur Fossils Suggests

Posted March 21, 2009:

• Fossil Fragments Reveal 500-Million-Year-Old Monster Predator

Posted March 18, 2009:

• Cretaceous Octopus With Ink And Suckers The World's Least Likely Fossils?

Posted March 17, 2009:

• Mini Dinosaurs Prowled North America

Posted March 16, 2009:

• Young Dinosaurs Roamed Together, Died Together
• Researchers Study Cave’s 'Breathing' For Better Climate Clues

Posted March 14, 2009:

• Silica Algae Reveal How Ecosystems React To Climate Changes

Posted March 13, 2009:

• Preserved Shark Fossil Adds Evidence To Great White's Origins
• 'Peking Man' Older Than Thought; Somehow Adapted To Cold

Posted March 10, 2009:

• Amazonian Amphibian Diversity Traced To Andes

Posted March 3, 2009:

• First Fossil Brain: Shark Relative That Lived 300 Million Years Ago Yields Very Rare Specimen

Posted February 28, 2009:

• Controversy Over World’s Oldest Traces Of Life

Posted February 27, 2009:

• Humans Walked On Modern Feet 1.5 Million Years Ago, Fossil Footprints Show

Posted February 26, 2009:

• Fossilized Pregnant Fish One Of First Animals To Have Sex
• Clovis-Era Tool Cache 13,000 Years Old Shows Evidence Of Camel, Horse Butchering

Posted February 22, 2009:

• X-Rays Used To Reveal Secrets Of Famous 'Dinobird' Fossil

Posted February 20, 2009:

• How Fat or Fit Were Dinosaurs? Scientists Use Laser Imaging

Posted February 19, 2009:

• Rapid Burst Of Flowering Plants Set Stage For Other Species
• Planet Earth: Avoiding The Hothouse And The Icehouse Of The Future
• Vast Cache Of Ice-Age Fossils Uncovered At La Brea Tar Pits In Los Angeles

Posted February 18, 2009:

• Air-Filled Bones Extended Lung Capacity And Helped Prehistoric Reptiles Take First Flight

Posted February 16, 2009:

• Draft Version Of The Neanderthal Genome Completed

Posted February 13, 2009:

• High-Tech Tests Allow Anthropologists To Track Ancient Hominids Across The Landscape

Posted February 10, 2009:

• Dramatic Rise In Sea Level And Its Broad Ramifications Uncovered

Posted February 9, 2009:

• New Species Of Prehistoric Creatures Discovered In Isle Of Wight Mud

Posted February 8, 2009:

• Census Of Modern Organisms Reveals Echo Of Ancient Mass Extinction

Posted February 6, 2009:

• Origin Of Claws Seen In Fossil 390 Million Years Old

Posted February 5, 2009:

• Earliest Evidence For Animal Life Discovered: Fossil Animal Steroids Date Back More Than 635 Million Years

Posted February 4, 2009:

• Early Whales Gave Birth On Land, Fossil Find Reveals
• At 2,500 Pounds And 43 Feet, Prehistoric Snake Is Largest On Record

Posted February 2, 2009:

• Biodiversity Hotspot Enabled Neanderthals To Survive Longer In South East Of Spain
• Ancient Turtle Migrated From Asia To America Over Tropical Arctic

Posted January 30, 2009:

• Dinosaur Fossils Fit Perfectly Into The Evolutionary Tree Of Life, Study Finds

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