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Posted October 25, 2006:

• 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
• Far More Than A Meteor Killed Dinos, Evidence Suggests

Posted October 23, 2006:

• New Dwarf Buffalo Discovered By Chance In The Philippines
• Researchers Give Name To Ancient Mystery Creature

Posted October 21, 2006:

• Mass Extinction's Cause: 'Sick Earth'

Posted October 19, 2006:

• West Australian Fossil Find Rewrites Land Mammal Evolution

Posted October 18, 2006:

• Learning To Live With Oxygen On Early Earth

Posted October 16, 2006:

• Possible Evidence Of Cell Division, Differentiation Found In Oldest Known Embryo Fossils

Posted October 9, 2006:

• Evidence From Ice Age That Climate Change Can Have A Rapid Effect On Ocean Circulation
• Compelling Evidence Demonstrates That 'Hobbit' Fossil Does Not Represent A New Species Of Hominid

Posted October 7, 2006:

• Researchers Link Ice Age Climate-change Records To Ocean Salinity

Posted October 6, 2006:

• Fossils Pinpoint Tropics As Earth's Most Fruitful Biodiversity Spawning Ground

Posted October 3, 2006:

• Anthropologist Challenges Species Identification Of Ancient Child Skeleton Found In Ethiopia

Posted October 2, 2006:

• 'Carnivorous' Coelophysis Dinosaur Fossil Re-examined -- Last Meal Was Primitive Crocodile

Posted September 28, 2006:

• Dinosaurs' Climate Shifted Too, Reports Show
• Geologists Help Find And Explain Earliest Known Human Ancestor Child

Posted September 22, 2006:

• Ancient Birds Flew On All-Fours
• Pregnant Prehistoric Fossil Offers Clues To Past

Posted September 21, 2006:

• Earliest Baby Girl Ever Discovered: Australopithecus Afarensis Child Sheds Light On Human Evolution

Posted September 15, 2006:

• Paleontologists Find 67 Dinosaurs In One Week

Posted September 11, 2006:

• Ocean Seep Mollusks May Share Evolutionary History With Other Deep-sea Creatures

Posted September 8, 2006:

• Modern Humans, Not Neandertals, May Be Evolution's 'Odd Man Out'

Posted September 6, 2006:

• Good Times Ahead For Dinosaur Hunters, According To Dinosaur Census

Posted August 30, 2006:

• Ancient Raptors Likely Feasted On Early Man, Study Suggests

Posted August 28, 2006:

• How Modern Were European Neanderthals?

Posted August 26, 2006:

• Insect Predation Sheds Light On Food Web Recovery After The Dinosaur Extinction

Posted August 25, 2006:

• No Hobbits In This Shire: Researchers Say Skeletal Remains Are Pygmy Ancestors

Posted August 24, 2006:

• Australian Geologists Date World's Oldest Discovered Open Caves At 340 Million Years

Posted August 23, 2006:

• Clock In The Rock: Geologist Leads Effort To Measure Earth's History
• Burning Wetlands Unleash Sequestered Mercury In Wake Of Climate Change

Posted August 12, 2006:

• Ancient Arctic Water Cycles Are Red Flags To Future Global Warming

Posted August 10, 2006:

• Paleontologist Discovers South American Mammal Fossils

Posted August 9, 2006:

• Looking At The Dawn Of Life: Detailed Images Of Embryos More Than 500 Million Years Old

Posted August 7, 2006:

• Ancient Bison Teeth Provide Window On Past Great Plains Climate, Vegetation

Posted July 26, 2006:

• Scientists Discover Evolutionary Origin Of Fins, Limbs
• Ancient Global Warming Drove Early Primates' Dispersal

Posted July 20, 2006:

• Neandertal Genome To Be Deciphered

Posted July 18, 2006:

• Paleontologists Establish First Age Distribution Of Non-avian Dinosaur Population

Posted July 13, 2006:

• Tyrannosaur Survivorship -- Tough Times For Teens
• Scientists Discover An Ancient Predator-Prey Relationship

Posted July 12, 2006:

• Large Dinosaurs Were Extremely Hot In Their Day, Study Finds

Posted July 11, 2006:

• Math And Fossils Resolve A Debate On Dinosaur Metabolism

Posted July 9, 2006:

• Ancient Raindrops Reveal The Origins Of California's Sierra Nevada Range

Posted July 6, 2006:

• Discovery Of Genetic Mutation In Florida Beach Mice Suggests Extinct Mammoth Had Light And Dark Fur

Posted June 27, 2006:

• First Compilation Of Tropical Ice Cores Shows Abrupt Global Climate Shifts

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