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New analysis shows 'hobbits' couldn't hustle

May 06, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (13) | 0

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 ...

Study: Man-eating lions consumed 35 people in 1898 (AP)

Notorious 'man-eating' lions of Tsavo likely ate about 35 people -- not 135, scientists say

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Nov 02, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (3) | 0

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 ...

Submersibles discover top-secret Japanese submarines

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Nov 13, 2009 | 3.4 / 5 (7) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two World War II Japanese submarines, designed with revolutionary technology to attack the U.S. mainland, have been discovered off the Hawaiian coast of Oʻahu. They are the I-14, which ...

Neanderthal Lacked Anatomical Competitive Edge: Skeletal Remains Tell the Story

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Jan 16, 2009 | 4.4 / 5 (13) | 20

(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 | 4.8 / 5 (6) | 0

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, ...

T.rex's oldest ancestor identified

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Nov 04, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (3) | 0

(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 Jo ...

Origin of claws seen in 390-million-year-old fossil

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Feb 05, 2009 | 4.4 / 5 (9) | 2

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 | 4.3 / 5 (13) | 0

(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 | 4.7 / 5 (9) | 0

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 | 4.6 / 5 (10) | 4

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 | 4.3 / 5 (18) | 9

(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 | 4.2 / 5 (14) | 0

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 | 4.8 / 5 (5) | 0

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 ...