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Posted February 10, 2010:

• Why Did Mammals Survive the 'K/T Extinction'?

Posted February 5, 2010:

• Dinosaur Had Vibrant Colors, Microscopic Fossil Clues Reveal

Posted February 4, 2010:

• Learning from Climate's Sedimental Journey

Posted February 3, 2010:

• Ancient Crocodile Relative Likely Food Source for Titanoboa, Largest Snake Ever Known
• Fossils Show Earliest Animal Trails

Posted February 2, 2010:

• Last Ancestor Humans Shared With Worms Had Sophisticated Brain, microRNAs Show

Posted February 1, 2010:

• Rotting Fish Heads: Novel Studies of Decomposition Shed New Light on Our Earliest Fossil Ancestry
• New Species of Tyrannosaur Discovered in Southwestern U.S.

Posted January 29, 2010:

• Dinosaur Discovery Helps Solve Piece of Evolutionary Puzzle

Posted January 28, 2010:

• Color of Dinosaur Feathers Identified

Posted January 27, 2010:

• Last Neanderthals in Europe Died out 37,000 Years Ago
• Is the Hobbit's Brain Unfeasibly Small?

Posted January 26, 2010:

• Dinosaur Extinction Grounded Ancient Birds, New Research Finds

Posted January 23, 2010:

• Can Modern-Day Plants Trace Their New Zealand Ancestry?

Posted January 22, 2010:

• Humans Caused Demise of Australia's Megafauna, Evidence Shows

Posted January 21, 2010:

• Jurassic 'Burn-Down' Events and Organic Matter Richness in the Kimmeridge Clay Formation

Posted January 20, 2010:

• New Theory on the Origin of Primates

Posted January 14, 2010:

• Arctic Could Face Warmer and Ice-Free Conditions
• Raft or Bridge: How Did Iguanas Reach Tiny Pacific Islands?

Posted January 8, 2010:

• Fossil Footprints Give Land Vertebrates a Much Longer History

Posted January 6, 2010:

• Earliest Tyrannosauroid Rediscovered in Museum Collection

Posted January 4, 2010:

• Using Modern Sequencing Techniques to Study Ancient Humans

Posted December 23, 2009:

• Australian Fossil Unlocks Secrets to the Origin of Whales
• Fossil Shelved for a Century Reworks Carnivore Family Tree: Limbs Changes Understanding of Early Carnivore Locomotion

Posted December 22, 2009:

• Story of 4.5-Million-Year-Old Whale Found in Spain
• Poisonous Prehistoric 'Raptor' Discovered in China

Posted December 21, 2009:

• Ancient Koalas May Have Been Loud and Lazy but They Didn't Chew Gum

Posted December 20, 2009:

• Tropical Birds Waited for Land Crossing Between North and South America, Study Finds

Posted December 18, 2009:

• Ancient Pygmy Sea Cow Discovered
• Mammals May Be Nearly Half Way Toward Mass Extinction

Posted December 17, 2009:

• Ancient Origins of Modern Opossum Revealed

Posted December 15, 2009:

• Mammoths Hung on Longer? Late-Surviving Megafauna Exposed by Ancient DNA in Frozen Soil

Posted December 14, 2009:

• Absence of Evidence for a Meteorite Impact Event 13,000 Years Ago

Posted December 10, 2009:

• DNA Sheds New Light on Horse Evolution
• Early Carnivorous Dinosaur Crossed Continents, Alters Evolutionary Tree

Posted December 3, 2009:

• Antarctica Served as Climatic Refuge in Earth's Greatest Extinction Event

Posted November 30, 2009:

• Big Freeze Plunged Europe Into Ice Age in Months
• New Fossil Plant Discovery Links Patagonia to New Guinea in a Warmer Past

Posted November 27, 2009:

• Study Pits Man Versus Machine in Piecing Together 425-Million-Year-Old Jigsaw
• Mass Extinction: Why Did Half of N. America's Large Mammals Disappear 40,000 to 10,000 Years Ago?

Posted November 24, 2009:

• Supervolcano Eruption -- In Sumatra -- Deforested India 73,000 Years Ago

Posted November 20, 2009:

• After Mastodons and Mammoths, a Transformed Landscape
• Paleontologists Find Extinction Rates Higher in Open-Ocean Settings During Mass Extinctions

Posted November 19, 2009:

• Cousins of Prehistoric Supercrocodile Inhabit Lost World of Sahara
• 'Hobbits' Are a New Human Species, According to Statistical Analysis of Fossils

Posted November 18, 2009:

• Extinct Moa Rewrites New Zealand's History

Posted November 15, 2009:

• Ancient Penguin DNA Raises Doubts About Accuracy of Genetic Dating Techniques

Posted November 12, 2009:

• 'Earth Claw': New Species of Vegetarian Dinosaur Close to Common Ancestor of Gigantic Sauropods

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