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New evidence from excavations supports theory of the 'Birth of Zeus'
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Feb 02, 2009 |
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In the third century BCE, the Greek poet Callimachus wrote a 'Hymn to Zeus' asking the ancient, and most powerful, Greek god whether he was born in Arcadia on Mt. Lykaion or in Crete on Mt. Ida.
Fossil evidence of missing link in the origin of seals, sea lions, walruses found in Canadian Arctic
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Apr 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the United States and Canada have found a fossil skeleton of a newly discovered carnivorous animal, Puijila darwini. New research suggests Puijila is a "missing link" in the ...
New analysis shows 'hobbits' couldn't hustle
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May 06, 2009 |
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A detailed analysis of the feet of Homo floresiensis—the miniature hominins who lived on a remote island in eastern Indonesia until 18,000 years ago -- may help settle a question hotly debated among paleontologists: how si ...
The first neotropical rainforest was home of the Titanoboa
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Oct 12, 2009 |
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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 ...
Neanderthal Lacked Anatomical Competitive Edge: Skeletal Remains Tell the Story
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Jan 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study of the skeletal fossils of Neanderthal and Early modern man suggest the lack of a "throwing arm" may have made the difference in human evolution. Researchers Jill A. Rhodes and ...
Analysis finds strong match between molecular, fossil data in evolutionary studies
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Apr 28, 2009 |
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During a seminar at another institution several years ago, University of Chicago paleontologist David Jablonski fielded a hostile question: Why bother classifying organisms according to their physical appearance, ...
Origin of claws seen in 390-million-year-old fossil
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Feb 05, 2009 |
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A missing link in the evolution of the front claw of living scorpions and horseshoe crabs was identified with the discovery of a 390 million-year-old fossil by researchers at Yale and the University of Bonn, ...
Archaeologist Uncovers Evidence of Ancient Chemical Warfare
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Jan 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A researcher from the University of Leicester has identified what looks to be the oldest archaeological evidence for chemical warfare--from Roman times.
Ancient turtle migrated from Asia to America over a tropical Arctic
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Feb 01, 2009 |
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In Arctic Canada, a team of geologists from the University of Rochester has discovered a surprise fossil: a tropical, freshwater, Asian turtle. The find strongly suggests that animals migrated from Asia to ...
Study shows competition, not climate change, led to Neanderthal extinction
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Dec 29, 2008 |
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In a recently conducted study, a multidisciplinary French-American research team with expertise in archaeology, past climates, and ecology reported that Neanderthal extinction was principally a result of competition with ...
Giant stone-age axes found in African lake basin
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Sep 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A giant African lake basin is providing information about possible migration routes and hunting practices of early humans in the Middle and Late Stone Age periods, between 150,000 and 10,000 ...
Census of modern organisms reveals echo of ancient mass extinction
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Feb 05, 2009 |
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Paleontologists can still hear the echo of the death knell that drove the dinosaurs and many other organisms to extinction following an asteroid collision at the end of the Cretaceous Period 65 million years ...
Rapid burst of flowering plants set stage for other species
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Feb 09, 2009 |
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A new University of Florida study based on DNA analysis from living flowering plants shows that the ancestors of most modern trees diversified extremely rapidly 90 million years ago, ultimately leading to the formation of ...
CT scans reveal that dinosaurs were airheads
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Dec 08, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Paleontologists have long known that dinosaurs had tiny brains, but they had no idea the beasts were such airheads.
Excavation unravels mysteries of men's gymnasium's demise during 1906 earthquake
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Nov 10, 2009 |
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More than a year into an excavation project of the men's gymnasium that was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake, Stanford university archaeologist Laura Jones' team has unearthed evidence suggesting why the newly ...
