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Posted April 15, 2010:

• Stalagmite Reveals Carbon Footprint of Early Native Americans

Posted April 14, 2010:

• Creepy Crawly Cockroach Ancestor Revealed in New 3-D Model

Posted April 13, 2010:

• Pre-History of Life: Elegantly Simple Organizing Principles Seen in Ribosomes

Posted April 12, 2010:

• Clovis Mammoth Hunters: Out With a Whimper or a Bang?
• First Studies of Fossil of New Human Ancestor Take Place at the European Synchrotron

Posted April 8, 2010:

• New Hominid Shares Traits With Homo Species: Fossil Find Sheds Light on the Transition to Homo Genus from Earlier Hominids
• Thick-Shelled Turtle Species Lived With World's Biggest Snake, Reveals Fossil Found in Colombian Coal Mine

Posted April 7, 2010:

• Northwest Lava Flows Could Have Altered Earth’s Climate, Wiped out Species, New Evidence Suggests

Posted April 5, 2010:

• New Insects, Bacteria Uncovered in Dinosaur-Era Amber Deposit

Posted April 4, 2010:

• Not So Fast! Andes Rise Was Gradual, Not Abrupt

Posted April 2, 2010:

• Ecologists Receive Mixed News from Fossil Record

Posted April 1, 2010:

• Dinosaur Skull Changed Shape During Growth
• Why Earth Wasn't One Big Ball of Ice 4 Billion Years Ago When Sun's Radiation Was Weaker

Posted March 31, 2010:

• Ancient Fossil Flea-Like Creature: Rare Body Parts Find Provides Vital Clues to Identity

Posted March 29, 2010:

• 'Road-Runner' Dinosaur Lived In The Fast Lane, Dug Termites And Ants

Posted March 26, 2010:

• Dawn of the Anthropocene Epoch? Earth Has Entered New Age of Geological Time, Experts Say
• First Ever Southern Tyrannosaur Dinosaur Discovered

Posted March 25, 2010:

• New Bird Fossil Hints at More Undiscovered Chinese Treasures
• New Human Species Discovered: Mitochondrial Genome of Previously Unknown Hominins from Siberia Decoded

Posted March 24, 2010:

• New Dinosaur from Utah's Red Rocks
• Marine Conditions of Aralar Mountain Range of 120 Million Years Ago

Posted March 23, 2010:

• How Dinosaurs Rose to Prominence

Posted March 22, 2010:

• Fossilized Feces Research Produces New Evidence Related to Giant Crocodile

Posted March 20, 2010:

• Evidence Indicates Humans' Early Tree-Dwelling Ancestors Were Also Bipedal

Posted March 19, 2010:

• Students Discover New Species of Raptor Dinosaur in Inner Mongolia

Posted March 18, 2010:

• Fossil of Rare Armor-Plated Worm-Like Creature Discovered in Canada's Capital

Posted March 17, 2010:

• Jaws -- 4 Million BC: How an Extinct Shark Attacked Its Prey
• Flowering Plants May Be Considerably Older Than Previously Thought

Posted March 15, 2010:

• When Did the First 'Modern' Human Beings Appear in the Iberian Peninsula?
• Fossil of Early Terrestrial Amphibian Discovered

Posted March 12, 2010:

• Fossil Bird Eggshell Provides Source of Ancient DNA

Posted March 9, 2010:

• Drastic Musk Ox Population Decline 12,000 Years Ago Due to Climate, Not Humans, Study Finds

Posted March 5, 2010:

• Snowball Earth: New Evidence Hints at Global Glaciation 716.5 Million Years Ago

Posted March 4, 2010:

• Asteroid Killed Off the Dinosaurs, Says International Scientific Panel
• Oldest Known Dinosaur Relative Discovered

Posted March 3, 2010:

• 'Missing Link' Fossil Was Not Human Ancestor as Claimed, Anthropologists Say
• Strategic Research Program Needed to Determine Whether, How Past Climate Influenced Human Evolution

Posted March 2, 2010:

• 'Anaconda' Meets 'Jurassic Park': Fossil Snake from India Fed on Hatchling Dinosaurs
• Ancient Corals Hold New Hope for Reefs

Posted March 1, 2010:

• Ancient DNA from Rare Fossil Reveals That Polar Bears Evolved Recently and Adapted Quickly

Posted February 28, 2010:

• Giant Plankton-Eating Fishes Roamed Prehistoric Seas, Fossil Evidence Shows

Posted February 24, 2010:

• New Dinosaur Discovered Head First, for a Change

Posted February 22, 2010:

• Link Between Marine Algae and Whale Diversity Over Last 30 Million Years, Study Finds

Posted February 13, 2010:

• New Picture of Ancient Ocean Chemistry Argues for Chemically Layered Water

Posted February 12, 2010:

• Environmental Disaster in Southern Spain Compared With Cretaceous Mass Extinction

Posted February 11, 2010:

• Mass Extinctions: 'Giant' Fossils Are Revolutionizing Current Thinking

Posted February 10, 2010:

• Waking the Dead: Scientists Reconstruct Nuclear Genome of Extinct Human Being
• Bird-from-Dinosaur Theory of Evolution Challenged: Was It the Other Way Around?

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