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Paleontologists Find Extinction Rates Higher in Open-Ocean Settings During Mass Extinctions
November 20, 2009 — Researchers have uncovered a strikingly pattern for ancient mass extinctions: extinctions rates during mass extinctions were significantly higher in open-ocean-facing settings than in epicontinental ... > full story -
'Hobbits' Are a New Human Species, According to Statistical Analysis of Fossils
November 19, 2009 — Researchers have confirmed that Homo floresiensis is a genuine ancient human species and not a descendant of healthy humans dwarfed by disease. Using statistical analysis on skeletal remains of a ... > full story -
Cousins of Prehistoric Supercrocodile Inhabit Lost World of Sahara
November 19, 2009 — Fossils of five ancient crocs, including one with teeth like boar tusks and another with a snout like a duck's bill, have been discovered in the Sahara. The five crocs, three of them newly named ... > full story -
Study Pits Man Versus Machine in Piecing Together 425-Million-Year-Old Jigsaw
November 16, 2009 — Reconstructing ancient fossils from hundreds of thousands of jumbled up pieces can prove challenging. A new study tested the reliability of expert identification versus computer analysis in ... > full story -
Ancient Penguin DNA Raises Doubts About Accuracy of Genetic Dating Techniques
November 15, 2009 — Penguins that died 44,000 years ago in Antarctica have provided extraordinary frozen DNA samples that challenge the accuracy of traditional genetic aging measurements, and suggest those approaches ... > full story -
'Earth Claw': New Species of Vegetarian Dinosaur Close to Common Ancestor of Gigantic Sauropods
November 12, 2009 — A new species of dinosaur from the early Jurassic period, approximately 195 million years old, has been discovered in South Africa. Dubbed Aardonyx ("Earth Claw"), the seven-meter-long vegetarian ... > full story -
Central Africa's Tropical Congo Basin Was Arid, Treeless In Late Jurassic
November 11, 2009 — The lush, tropical Congo Basin was much different 150 million to 200 million years ago when dinosaurs roamed Gondwana, the single continent formed by Africa and South America. Geochemical analysis of ... > full story -
New Fossil Plant Discovery Links Patagonia to New Guinea in a Warmer Past
November 10, 2009 — Fossil plants provide clues as to what our planet looked like millions of years ago. Identifying fossil plants can be tricky, however, when plant organs fail to be preserved. Researchers recently ... > full story -
Discovery Of The Oldest European Marsupial In Southwest France
November 9, 2009 — Remains of one of the oldest known marsupials have been recovered in Charente-Maritime, France, by palaeontologists. This discovery raises a new hypothesis about the dispersal route of the earliest ... > full story -
Seafloor Fossils Provide Clues To Climate Change
November 8, 2009 — Deep under the sea, a fossil the size of a sand grain is nestled among a billion of its closest dead relatives. Known as foraminifera, these complex little shells of calcium carbonate can tell you ... > full story
