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Greeks uncorked French passion for wine

Greeks uncorked French passion for wine

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created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 1

(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.


Bizarre new horned tyrannosaur from Asia described

Bizarre new horned tyrannosaur from Asia described

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created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Now, just a few weeks after tiny, early Raptorex kriegsteini was unveiled, a new wrench has been thrown into the family tree of the tyrannosaurs. The new Alioramus altai—a horned, long-snouted, gracile cousi ...


'Blue Stonehenge' discovered

'Blue Stonehenge' discovered

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created Oct 06, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (19) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Archaeologists have released an artist’s impression of what a second stone circle found a mile from Stonehenge might have looked like.


Pavlopetri -- the world's oldest known submerged town

Pavlopetri -- the world's oldest known submerged town

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created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 5

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 ...


Inside the First Bird, Surprising Signs of a Dinosaur

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created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(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.


Chinese and American paleontologists discover a new Mesozoic mammal

Paleontologists discover a new Mesozoic mammal

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created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (10) | comments 0

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 ...


Early hominid first walked on 2 legs in the woods

Early hominid first walked on two legs in the woods

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created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (10) | comments 1

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 ...


Scientists ID fossil bones of smallest dinosaur

Scientists find fossil bones of smallest dinosaur

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created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 0

(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 c ...


Plesiosaur a victim of shark attack

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created Oct 06, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- An 85 million-year-old plesiosaur fossil has been found with over 80 shark's teeth, suggesting the animal was the victim of sharks in a feeding frenzy. The find is perhaps the most spectacular example of ...


Ancient Lemurs Take Bite Out of Evolutionary Tree

Ancient Lemurs Take Bite Out of Evolutionary Tree (w/ Video)

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created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(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 ...


Evolution axe goes on display

Evolution axe goes on display

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created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(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.


The largest bat in Europe inhabited northeastern Spain more than 10,000 years ago

The largest bat in Europe inhabited northeastern Spain more than 10,000 years ago

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created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Spanish researchers have confirmed that the largest bat in Europe, Nyctalus lasiopterus, was present in north-eastern Spain during the Late Pleistocene (between 120,000 and 10,000 years ago). The Greater Noctul ...


Britain?s oldest dinosaur to be released

Britain's oldest dinosaur to be released

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created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- After 210 million years of being entombed in rock, the Bristol Dinosaur is about to be released, thanks to a Heritage Lottery Fund grant awarded to the University of Bristol.


A Canadian scientist is planning to turn chickens into dinosaurs

Canadian scientist aims to turn chickens into dinosaurs

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created Aug 25, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (21) | comments 33

After years spent hunting for the buried remains of prehistoric animals, a Canadian paleontologist now plans to manipulate chicken embryos to show he can create a dinosaur.


World's oldest submerged town dates back 5,000 years (w/ Video)

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created Oct 16, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

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 ...