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Proteins, Soft Tissue from 80 Million-Year-Old Hadrosaur Add Weight to Theory that Molecules Preserve Over Time
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Apr 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A North Carolina State University paleontologist has more evidence that soft tissues and original proteins can be preserved over time - even in fossilized remains - in the form of new protein ...
Herbal wine, just the thing for ailing pharaohs
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Apr 13, 2009 |
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(AP) -- When great-grandma took a nip of the elderberry wine "for medicinal purposes," she was following a tradition that goes back thousands of years.
Feathers fly over new dinosaur find
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Mar 18, 2009 |
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The discovery of a petite, plant-eating dinosaur with primitive plumage could mean that the dinosaur from which all others evolved had feather-like protrusions, said a study released Wednesday.
Rediscovering the dragon's paradise lost
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Sep 30, 2009 |
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The world's largest living lizard species, the Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis), is vulnerable to extinction and yet little is known about its natural history. New research by a team of palaeontologists and ar ...
1.5 million-year-old fossil humans walked on modern feet (Video)
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Feb 26, 2009 |
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Ancient footprints found at Rutgers' Koobi Fora Field School show that some of the earliest humans walked like us and did so on anatomically modern feet 1.5 million years ago.
Archaeologists find earliest known domestic horses
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Mar 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of archaeologists has uncovered the earliest known evidence of horses being domesticated by humans. The discovery suggests that horses were both ridden and milked. The ...
eBay has unexpected, chilling effect on looting of antiquities, archaeologist finds
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May 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Having worked for 25 years at fragile archaeological sites in Peru, UCLA archaeologist Charles "Chip" Stanish held his breath when the online auction house eBay launched more than a decade ...
Air-filled bones helped prehistoric reptiles take first flight
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Feb 18, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In the Mesozoic Era, 70 million years before birds first conquered the skies, pterosaurs dominated the air with sparrow- to Cessna-sized wingspans. Researchers suspected that these extinct ...
TB the culprit in the great mummy whodunnit
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Sep 30, 2009 |
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Around 2,600 years ago, on the banks of the Nile, a bed-ridden lady of high rank coughed and wheezed as tuberculosis ravaged her body, driving her ruthlessly towards the afterlife.
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 ...
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, ...
