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Posted January 29, 2009:

• Reptile Fossil Reignites Debate Over New Zealand Submergence

Posted January 28, 2009:

• Birds Survived Mass Extinction That Wiped Out Dinosaurs Because Of Their Larger Brains
• Ancient Wounds Reveal Triceratops Battles

Posted January 27, 2009:

• Danube Delta Holds Answers To 'Noah's Flood' Debate

Posted January 21, 2009:

• 'Hobbit' Skull Study Finds Hobbit Is Not Human

Posted January 19, 2009:

• Origin Of Jawed Vertebrates: Prehistoric Fish Provides New Piece In Evolution's Jigsaw Puzzle

Posted January 14, 2009:

• High-Tech Imaging Of Inner Ear Sheds Light On Hearing, Behavior Of Oldest Fossil Bird
• Texas State Dinosaur Facing Name Change: Case Of Mistaken Dino-Identity

Posted January 13, 2009:

• Giant Bird Feces Record Pre-Human New Zealand
• Hair Of Tasmanian Tiger Yields Genes Of Extinct Species

Posted January 12, 2009:

• 'Reverse Evolution' In Real Time Provides Key Insights Into Basic Mechanisms Of Evolution
• Decline Of Plankton That Gobble Carbon Dioxide Coincided With Ancient Global Cooling

Posted January 9, 2009:

• Understanding Extinct Microbes May Influence The State Of Modern Human Health
• Solution To Darwin's Dilemma Of 1859

Posted January 7, 2009:

• Catastrophic Coincidence: Second Ever Example Of Contemporaneous Meteorite Impact And Flood Volcanism Discovered
• Four, Three, Two, One . . . Pterosaurs Have Lift Off

Posted January 6, 2009:

• Defensive Protein Killed Ancient Primate Retroviruses, Research Suggests

Posted January 2, 2009:

• Six North American Sites Hold 12,900-Year-Old Nanodiamond-Rich Soil

Posted December 23, 2008:

• Evolution: Life On Earth Got Bigger In 2-Million-Fold Leaps

Posted December 21, 2008:

• Archaeological Discovery: Earliest Evidence Of Our Cave-Dwelling Human Ancestors

Posted December 19, 2008:

• 'Hobbit' Fossils Represent A New Species, Concludes Anthropologist
• New World Post-Pandemic Reforestation Helped Start Little Ice Age, Say Scientists

Posted December 18, 2008:

• Did Early Global Warming Divert A New Glacial Age?

Posted December 17, 2008:

• New Species Of Prehistoric Giants Discovered In The Sahara
• Mistaken Identity Leads Researchers To Two New Extinct Species Of Coral

Posted December 15, 2008:

• Predecessor of Cows, The Aurochs, Were Still Living In The Netherlands Around AD 600

Posted December 9, 2008:

• Dinosaurs Were Airheads, CT Scans Reveal

Posted December 7, 2008:

• Climate Change Wiped Out Cave Bears 13 Millennia Earlier Than Thought

Posted December 6, 2008:

• Decline Of Roman And Byzantine Empires 1,400 Years Ago May Have Been Driven By Climate Change

Posted December 3, 2008:

• New Giant Toothless Pterosaur Species Discovered

Posted November 28, 2008:

• Bacterial Biofilms As Fossil Makers

Posted November 27, 2008:

• How Did Turtles Get Their Shells? Oldest Known Turtle Fossil, 220 Million Years Old, Give Clues
• Plate Tectonics Started Over 4 Billion Years Ago, Geochemists Report

Posted November 26, 2008:

• Jurassic Turtles Could Swim

Posted November 25, 2008:

• Getting Warmer? Prehistoric Climate Can Help Forecast Future Changes
• Deep Heat Solution To 500-Million Year Fossil Mystery

Posted November 21, 2008:

• Discovery Of Giant Roaming Deep Sea Protist Provides New Perspective On Animal Evolution

Posted November 14, 2008:

• Dinosaur Whodunit: Solving A 77-Million-Year-Old Mystery
• Pelvis Dated To 1.2 Million Years Ago Shows Ancestors May Have Been Born With Big Heads
• Marine Plankton Found In Amber

Posted November 12, 2008:

• Ice Age Beasts In Europe: Migration Of The Woolly Rhinoceros Earlier Than Assumed

Posted November 8, 2008:

• Paleontologists Doubt 'Dinosaur Dance Floor'

Posted November 7, 2008:

• Ancient China: Lack Of Rainfall Could Have Contributed To Social Upheaval And Fall Of Dynasties

Posted November 6, 2008:

• Death By Hyperdisease: How DNA Detective Work Explains Extinction Of Christmas Island's Native Rats

Posted October 31, 2008:

• Extinct Sabertooth Cats Were Social, Found Strength In Numbers, Study Shows
• 'Living Fossil' Tree Contains Genetic Imprints Of Rain Forests Under Climate Change

Posted October 30, 2008:

• Significant Fossil Discovery In Utah Shows Land Plants Of 200 Million Years Ago

Posted October 24, 2008:

• Tiny Juvenile Dinosaur Fossil Sheds Light On Evolution Of Plant Eaters

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