http://www.physorg.com/science-news/archaeology-fossils/ en-us PhysOrg.com provides the latest news on archaeology, fossils, archaeological sciences and archaeological technology. Scientists have discovered the first evidence that dinosaurs roamed the South Island of New Zealand with 70-million-year-old footprints found in six locations. http://www.physorg.com/news176809886.html Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:40:05 EST news176809886 (PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have extracted organically preserved muscle tissue from an 18 million years old salamander fossil. The discovery by researchers from University College Dublin, the UK and Spain, reported in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B shows that soft tissue can be preserved under a broader set of fossil conditions than previously known. http://www.physorg.com/news176660912.html Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:20:01 EST news176660912 (PhysOrg.com) -- Archaeologists excavating the former Radcliffe Infirmary site in Oxford have uncovered evidence of a prehistoric monumental landscape stretching across the gravel terrace between the Thames and Cherwell rivers. http://www.physorg.com/news176577298.html Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:15:33 EST news176577298 (PhysOrg.com) -- Remains of the oldest-known relative of T.rex have been identified, more than 100 years after being pulled out of a Gloucestershire reservoir, according to research published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society today. http://www.physorg.com/news176568098.html Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:10:01 EST news176568098 The legendary "man-eating lions of Tsavo" that terrorized a railroad camp in Kenya more than a century ago likely consumed about 35 people--far fewer than popular estimates of 135 victims, according to a new analysis led by researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The study also yields surprises about the predatory behavior of lions. http://www.physorg.com/news176399116.html Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:00:01 EST news176399116 We all know adolescents get testy from time to time. Thank goodness we don't have young tyrannosaurs running around the neighborhood. http://www.physorg.com/news176386597.html Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:17:02 EST news176386597 (PhysOrg.com) -- Pieces of amber containing parts of a spider's web have been found in East Sussex and dated back to the Cretaceous period 140 million years ago, which makes it the oldest spider's web known. http://www.physorg.com/news176364340.html Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:40:01 EST news176364340 (PhysOrg.com) -- An ancient South American civilisation which disappeared around 1,500 years ago helped to cause its own demise by damaging the fragile ecosystem that held it in place, a study has found. http://www.physorg.com/news176368228.html Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:11:24 EST news176368228 (PhysOrg.com) -- Paleontologists from the University of California, Berkeley, and the Museum of the Rockies have wiped out two species of dome-headed dinosaur, one of them named three years ago - with great fanfare - after Hogwarts, the school attended by Harry Potter. http://www.physorg.com/news176132721.html Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:46:07 EST news176132721 A husband and wife team of American paleontologists has discovered a new species of dinosaur that lived 112 million years ago during the early Cretaceous of central Montana. http://www.physorg.com/news176119692.html Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:08:52 EST news176119692 An Indian doctor working in 600 B.C. might have been the world's first plastic surgeon, according to a new exhibition that challenges Western domination of the history of science and technology. http://www.physorg.com/news176015733.html Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:50:03 EST news176015733 The fossilised skull of a pliosaur, the largest marine reptile that ever lived, has been discovered along the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site. http://www.physorg.com/news175895874.html Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:58:48 EST news175895874 (PhysOrg.com) -- The bottle sitting in your wine rack at home is probably labelled as a juicy, full-bodied French number, with dark berry flavours and a long, complex finish. http://www.physorg.com/news175507773.html Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:10:14 EST news175507773 (PhysOrg.com) -- A four thousand year old Egyptian mummy's tooth has yielded its DNA to probing scientists. http://www.physorg.com/news175417317.html Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils Thu, 22 Oct 2009 08:02:25 EST news175417317 (PhysOrg.com) -- Research examining microscopic marks on the teeth of the "Lucy" species Australopithecus afarensis suggests that the ancient hominid ate a different diet than the tooth enamel, size and shape suggest, say a University of Arkansas researcher and his colleagues. http://www.physorg.com/news175415022.html Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils Thu, 22 Oct 2009 08:00:01 EST news175415022 (PhysOrg.com) -- About 40 miles outside Cairo, Egypt, National Science Foundation-supported paleontologists from three American universities are revealing features of a newly discovered African primate and solving a riddle about humankind's evolutionary past. http://www.physorg.com/news175350798.html Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:41:42 EST news175350798 The world's oldest known submerged town has been revealed through the discovery of late Neolithic pottery. The finds were made during an archaeological survey of Pavlopetri, off the southern Laconia coast of Greece. http://www.physorg.com/news175338826.html Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:14:52 EST news175338826 (PhysOrg.com) -- A new dinosaur species, Fruitadens haagarorum, is the smallest dinosaur ever discovered from North America. The tiny Fruitadens weighed less than a kilogram (two pounds) and was just 70 cm (28 inches) in length. http://www.physorg.com/news175324667.html Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:28:28 EST news175324667 (PhysOrg.com) -- A flint hand axe that helped reveal the very ancient age of humankind goes on display at the Natural History Museum October 2009. http://www.physorg.com/news175185404.html Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:50:01 EST news175185404 (PhysOrg.com) -- Tapejara was an excellent flyer that also had an innate nautical knowledge of sailing. http://www.physorg.com/news175183328.html Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:40:02 EST news175183328 Archaeologists surveying the world's oldest submerged town have found ceramics dating back to the Final Neolithic. Their discovery suggests that Pavlopetri, off the southern Laconia coast of Greece, was occupied some 5,000 years ago -- at least 1,200 years earlier than originally thought. http://www.physorg.com/news174906146.html Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils Fri, 16 Oct 2009 10:03:06 EST news174906146 Contestants on TV shows like Top Chef and Hell's Kitchen know that their meat-cutting skills will be scrutinized by a panel of unforgiving judges. Now, new archaeological evidence is getting the same scrutiny by scientists at Tel Aviv University and the University of Arizona. http://www.physorg.com/news174740646.html Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:05:00 EST news174740646 Imagine the gruesome sound of bones snapping as a thirsty, 30-ton dinosaur tramples a heap of fresh carcasses on his way to a rapidly shrinking lake. http://www.physorg.com/news174717016.html Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:30:53 EST news174717016 (PhysOrg.com) -- An international group of researchers from the University of Leicester (UK), and the Geological Institute, Beijing (China) have identified a new type of flying reptile - providing the first clear evidence of an unusual and controversial type of evolution. http://www.physorg.com/news174679429.html Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:04:34 EST news174679429 (PhysOrg.com) -- A new ten-year study by US paleontologists suggests that up to a third of dinosaur fossils may have been incorrectly identified as new species, when they are actually juveniles of species in which there was a dramatic change as they developed. http://www.physorg.com/news174634964.html Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils Tue, 13 Oct 2009 06:43:36 EST news174634964 Smithsonian researchers working in Colombia's Cerrejón coal mine have unearthed the first megafossil evidence of a neotropical rainforest. Titanoboa, the world's biggest snake, lived in this forest 58 million years ago at temperatures 3-5 C warmer than in rainforests today, indicating that rainforests flourished during warm periods. http://www.physorg.com/news174580793.html Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:04:39 EST news174580793 (PhysOrg.com) -- The raptor-like Archaeopteryx has long been viewed as the archetypal first bird, but new research reveals that it was actually a lot less `bird-like` than scientists had believed. http://www.physorg.com/news174241395.html Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:00:02 EST news174241395 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA…An international team of paleontologists has discovered a new species of mammal that lived 123 million years ago in what is now the Liaoning Province in northeastern China. The newly discovered animal, Maotherium asiaticus, comes from famous fossil-rich beds of the Yixian Formation. This new remarkably well preserved fossil, as reported in the October 9 issue of the prestigious journal Science, offers an important insight into how the mammalian middle ear evolved. The discoveries of such exquisite dinosaur-age mammals from China provide developmental biologists and paleontologists with evidence of how developmental mechanisms have impacted the morphological (body-structure) evolution of the earliest mammals and sheds light on how complex structures can arise in evolution because of changes in developmental pathways. http://www.physorg.com/news174230741.html Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:27:44 EST news174230741 Among the many surprises associated with the discovery of the oldest known, nearly complete skeleton of a hominid is the finding that this species took its first steps toward bipedalism not on the open, grassy savanna, as generations of scientists - going back to Charles Darwin - hypothesized, but in a wooded landscape. http://www.physorg.com/news174218847.html Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:08:09 EST news174218847 For 1200 years, the Maya dominated Central America. At their peak around 900 A.D., Maya cities teemed with more than 2,000 people per square mile -- comparable to modern Los Angeles County. Even in rural areas the Maya numbered 200 to 400 people per square mile. But suddenly, all was quiet. And the profound silence testified to one of the greatest demographic disasters in human prehistory -- the demise of the once vibrant Maya society. http://www.physorg.com/news174152911.html Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:49:23 EST news174152911