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Fossil shelved for a century reworks carnivore family tree

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Dec 22, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (8) | 4

More than a hundred years after its discovery, the limbs and vertebrae of a fossil have been pulled off the shelf at the American Museum of Natural History to revise the view of early carnivore lifestyles. ...

Modern behavior of early humans found half-million years earlier than previously thought

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Dec 22, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (16) | 0

Evidence of sophisticated, human behavior has been discovered by Hebrew University of Jerusalem researchers as early as 750,000 years ago - some half a million years earlier than has previously been estimated ...

Australian fossil unlocks secrets to the origin of whales

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Dec 22, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (4) | 0

Museum Victoria palaeobiologist Dr Erich Fitzgerald has made new groundbreaking discoveries into the origin of baleen whales, based on a 25 million year old fossil found near Torquay in Victoria.

Monument lifted from Cleopatra's underwater city

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Dec 17, 2009 | 4.9 / 5 (8) | 0

(AP) -- Archaeologists on Thursday hoisted a 9-ton temple pylon from the waters of the Mediterranean that was part of the palace complex of the fabled Cleopatra before it became submerged for centuries in ...

Exploring the Stone Age pantry

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Dec 17, 2009 | 4.2 / 5 (6) | 0

The consumption of wild cereals among prehistoric hunters and gatherers appears to be far more ancient than previously thought, according to a University of Calgary archaeologist who has found the oldest example ...

DNA of Jesus-era shrouded man in Jerusalem reveals earliest case of leprosy

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Dec 16, 2009 | 3.8 / 5 (13) | 11

The DNA of a 1st century shrouded man found in a tomb on the edge of the Old City of Jerusalem has revealed the earliest proven case of leprosy. Details of the research will be published December 16 in the ...

Text of Jewish exorcism discovered

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Dec 16, 2009 | 3.3 / 5 (3) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A rare - and possibly unique - text describing a Jewish exorcism has been discovered by a scholar of medieval Jewish studies.

Researchers reveal ancient origins of modern opossum

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Dec 16, 2009 | 4 / 5 (2) | 0

A University of Florida researcher has co-authored a study tracing the evolution of the modern opossum back to the extinction of the dinosaurs and finding evidence to support North America as the center of ...

First archaeological survey of Paphlagonia published

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Dec 16, 2009 | 5 / 5 (3) | 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Project Paphlagonia is the first fully published multi-period archaeological and historical survey of the little explored region of north-central Turkey. Today this region includes the provinces ...

French find puts humans in Europe 200,000 years earlier

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Dec 15, 2009 | 4.2 / 5 (17) | 0

Experts on prehistoric man are rethinking their dates after a find in a southern French valley suggested our ancestors may have reached Europe 1.57 million years ago: 200,000 years earlier than we thought.

Bronze Age People Left Flowers at Grave

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Dec 15, 2009 | 4.1 / 5 (8) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Archaeologists from the Universities of Glasgow and Aberdeen have found proof that pre-historic people laid flowers at the graves of their dead.

World's first skeletal mount of Paluxysaurus jonesi reveals new biology

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Dec 15, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (11) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Early Cretaceous sauropod Paluxysaurus jonesi weighed 20 tons, was 60 feet long and had a neck 26 feet long, according to scientists who prepared the world's first full skeletal mount ...

Story of 4.5 million-year-old whale unveiled in Huelva

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Dec 15, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (3) | 0

In 2006, a team of Spanish and American researchers found the fossil remains of a whale, 4.5 million years old, in Bonares, Huelva. Now they have published, for the first time, the results of the decay and ...

The mammoths' swan song revised

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Dec 14, 2009 | 4.4 / 5 (12) | 4

This is shown by samples of ancient DNA, analysed by an international team of research scientists under the leadership of Professor Eske Willerslev from Copenhagen University. Analyses of ancient DNA thereby ...

Ancient pygmy sea cow discovered

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Dec 14, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (6) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The discovery of a Middle Eocene (48.6-37.2 million years ago) sea cow fossil by McGill University professor Karen Samonds has culminated in the naming of a new species. This primitive "dugong" ...

U of A students reaffirm the work of a 1920s paleontologist

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Dec 14, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (2) | 0

Three University of Alberta paleontology graduate students blew the dust off an 85-year-old dinosaur find to discover the original researcher had it right and a 1970s revision of his work was wrong.

Good dentistry may have saved the dinosaurs

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Dec 14, 2009 | 2.6 / 5 (5) | 1

Infectious diseases can be transmitted by sneezing, touching, or - for Tasmanian devils - biting each other on the face, a habit that may have driven the dinosaurs to extinction through the transmission of a protozoan parasite.

Bones of T. rex to make museum debut in Oregon

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Dec 11, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(AP) -- The skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus rex will make its museum debut at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry along the banks of the Willamette River.