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Posted October 18, 2010:

• Ammonites at Ancient Methane Seeps: New Light Shed on Mollusks That Went Extinct 65 Million Years Ago

Posted October 15, 2010:

• What Did Tyrannosaurus Rex Eat? Each Other
• Using Discards, Scientists Discover Different Dinosaurs' Stomping Grounds

Posted October 13, 2010:

• Giant Sperm Whale from the Miocene Period Discovered in Peru

Posted October 11, 2010:

• New Understanding of Bizarre Extinct Mammal: Shares Common Ancestor With Rodents, Primates

Posted October 9, 2010:

• Plants Kick-Started Evolutionary Drama of Earth's Oxygenation

Posted October 7, 2010:

• Volcanoes Wiped out Neanderthals, New Study Suggests

Posted October 6, 2010:

• New Fossil Suggests Dinosaurs Not So Fierce After All
• Oldest Evidence of Dinosaurs in Footprints: Dinosaur Lineage Emerged Soon After Massive Permian Extinction

Posted October 1, 2010:

• Dinosaurs Significantly Taller Than Previously Thought, Research Suggests
• First Genetic Evidence for Loss of Teeth in the Common Ancestor of Baleen Whales
• No Evidence for Clovis Comet Catastrophe, Archaeologists Say
• Species Accumulate on Earth at Slower Rates Than in the Past, Computational Biologists Say

Posted September 30, 2010:

• Fossilized Giant Penguin Reveals Unusual Colors, Sheds Light on Bird Evolution

Posted September 22, 2010:

• Amazing Horned Dinosaurs Unearthed on 'Lost Continent'; New Discoveries Include Bizarre Beast With 15 Horns

Posted September 19, 2010:

• Fossil of Giant Bony-Toothed Bird from Chile Sets Wingspan Record

Posted September 17, 2010:

• Tyrannosaurus Redux: T. Rex Was More Than Just a Large Carnivore at Top of Food Chain, New Findings Reveal

Posted September 15, 2010:

• Frosty Times for Dinosaurs: Major Fall in Temperature 137 Million Years Ago During Cretaceous Greenhouse Period, Evidence Shows
• Nanodiamonds Discovered in Greenland Ice Sheet, Contribute to Evidence for Cosmic Impact

Posted September 9, 2010:

• Woolly Mammoth, Woolly Rhinoceros and Reindeer Lived on Iberian Peninsula 150,000 Years Ago, Findings Show

Posted September 1, 2010:

• Evolution Rewritten, Again and Again

Posted August 31, 2010:

• Carnivore Species Shrank During Global Warming Event

Posted August 30, 2010:

• 'Stocky Dragon' Dinosaur, Relative of Velociraptor, Terrorized Late Cretaceous Europe

Posted August 25, 2010:

• How Giant Tortoises, Alligators Thrived in High Arctic 50 Million Years Ago
• True Causes for Extinction of Cave Bear Revealed: More Human Expansion Than Climate Change

Posted August 24, 2010:

• Fires and Floods Key to Dinosaur Island Secrets

Posted August 19, 2010:

• Ancient 'Terror Bird' Used Powerful Beak to Jab Like an Agile Boxer

Posted August 18, 2010:

• Dwindling Green Pastures, Not Hunting, May Have Killed Off the Mammoth
• Secrets of a Vanished English Landscape: Geologists Examine 5,000-Year-Old 'Fossilized' Landscape

Posted August 17, 2010:

• Possible Discovery of Earliest Animal Life Pushes Back Fossil Record

Posted August 11, 2010:

• Oldest Evidence of Stone Tool Use and Meat-Eating Among Human Ancestors Discovered: Lucy's Species Butchered Meat
• Gondwana Supercontinent Underwent Massive Shift During Cambrian Explosion

Posted August 10, 2010:

• Mosasaur Fossil: Life of 85-Million-Year-Old 'Sea Monster' Illuminated

Posted August 2, 2010:

• Ancient Reptiles 'Make Tracks': Discovery of Fossilized Footprints Reveals When Reptiles First Conquered Dry Land

Posted July 22, 2010:

• Temperature Constancy Appears Key to Tropical Biodiversity

Posted July 18, 2010:

• Remarkable Fossil Cave Shows How Ancient Marsupials Grew

Posted July 15, 2010:

• Fossil Find Puts a Face on Early Primates

Posted July 14, 2010:

• Triceratops and Torsaurus Were Same Dinosaur at Different Stages
• New Research on Rapidly-Disappearing Ancient Plant Offers Hope for Species Recovery
• Ancient Birds from North America Colonized the South, Thanks to Panama Land Bridge

Posted July 13, 2010:

• Why You Should Never Arm Wrestle a Saber-Toothed Tiger

Posted July 8, 2010:

• Mojoceratops: New Dinosaur Species Named for Flamboyant Frill
• Dig Discovers Ancient Britons Were Earliest North Europeans

Posted July 2, 2010:

• Feathered Friends: Ostriches Provide Clues to Dinosaur Movement

Posted July 1, 2010:

• Extinction of Woolly Mammoth, Saber-Toothed Cat May Have Been Caused by Human Predators
• Complex, Multicellular Life from Over Two Billion Years Ago Discovered
• Human-Made Global Warming Started With Ancient Hunters

Posted June 29, 2010:

• Outliving the Ice Age: Tale of a Rhinoceros

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