Paleontology News

Posted January 16, 2007:

• Why Are Lions Not As Big As Elephants?
• 40,000-year-old Skull Shows Both Modern Human And Neandertal Traits

Posted January 15, 2007:

• Rare Plant From Dinosaur Age

Posted January 12, 2007:

• 'Out Of Africa' Theory Boost: Skull Dating Suggests Modern Humans Evolved In Africa
• Earliest Evidence Of Modern Humans In Europe Discovered: Artifacts May Date Back 45,000 Years

Posted January 11, 2007:

• Homer's Ithaca Possibly Found Thanks To New Geologic Research

Posted January 5, 2007:

• A Bumpy Shift From Ice House To Greenhouse

Posted January 4, 2007:

• The Evolution Of Human Diet

Posted December 27, 2006:

• Lewis And Clark Data Show Narrower, More Flood-prone River

Posted December 25, 2006:

• Hotspots Or Not? Isotopes Score One For Traditional Theory

Posted December 22, 2006:

• Researchers Identify A 'Heartbeat' In Earth's Climate
• Giant Sauropod Dinosaur Found In Spain

Posted December 21, 2006:

• Oldest Animal Fossils May Have Been Bacteria
• Dinosaurs: Stones Did Not Help With Digestion

Posted December 19, 2006:

• Fossil Discovery Turns Scientific Theory On Its Head

Posted December 18, 2006:

• Small Furry Mammal Was Capable Of Gliding Flight Possibly Before Birds
• Shoulder Ligament A Linchpin In The Evolution Of Flight

Posted December 15, 2006:

• Dental Crowns Reveal The Diet Of A Species

Posted December 14, 2006:

• Two Studies On Bee Evolution Reveal Surprises
• Tiny Bones Rewrite Textbooks: First New Zealand Land Mammal Fossil

Posted December 11, 2006:

• Volcanic Blast Likely Killed And Preserved Juvenile Fossil Plesiosaur Found In Antarctica
• From Hot Springs To Rice Farms, Scientists Reveal New Insights Into The Secret Lives Of Archaea

Posted December 10, 2006:

• Solving Darwin's Dilemma: Oxygen May Be The Clue To First Appearance Of Large Animals

Posted December 8, 2006:

• Ancient Ape Ruled Out Of Man's Ancestral Line

Posted November 29, 2006:

• Ancient Predator Had Strongest Bite Of Any Fish, Rivaling Bite Of Large Alligators And T. Rex
• Lessons Learned From Drought Deaths 40,000 Years Ago

Posted November 28, 2006:

• Mass Extinction 250 Million Years Ago Sparked Dramatic Shift To Complex Marine Ecosystems
• Landslide At Mt. Etna Generated A Large Tsunami In The Mediterranean Sea Nearly 8000 Years Ago

Posted November 27, 2006:

• Synchrotron Reveals How Neanderthal Teeth Grew

Posted November 23, 2006:

• 'Nymph Of The Sea' Reveals Remarkable Brood

Posted November 20, 2006:

• Origins Of Life: New Approach Helps Expand Study Of Living Fossils

Posted November 16, 2006:

• Neanderthal Genome Sequencing Yields Surprising Results And Opens A New Door To Future Studies

Posted November 9, 2006:

• Reef Warns Of Sea Level Rise

Posted November 8, 2006:

• Spectacular Dinosaur Skull Comes Back To Alberta

Posted November 6, 2006:

• Fossil Is Missing Link In Elephant Lineage
• Novel Experiment Documents Evolution Of Genome In Near-real Time

Posted November 4, 2006:

• Fossils Of Ancient Sea Monster Found In Montana

Posted November 1, 2006:

• Modeling Alien Invasions: Plasticity May Hold The Key To Prevention

Posted October 30, 2006:

• Evolutionary Oddity: Erectile Tissue Helps Flamingos Eat
• Trotting With Emus To Walk With Dinosaurs

Posted October 26, 2006:

• Scientists Find Lamprey A 'Living Fossil': 360 Million-year-old Fish Hasn't Evolved Much
• Research Discovers Oldest Bee, Evolutionary Link
• Appalachian Mountains, Carbon Dioxide Caused Long-ago Global Cooling

Posted October 25, 2006:

• New Theory For Mass Extinctions
• Oldest Complex Organic Molecules Found In Ancient Fossils
• Amazon River Reversed Flow

Posted October 24, 2006:

• Evidence Of Gut Parasite Found In Dinosaur
• Steep Oxygen Decline Halted First Land Colonization By Earth's Sea Creatures

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