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21st century technology cracks alchemists' secret recipe
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Nov 22, 2006 |
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A 500-year old mystery surrounding the centerpiece of the alchemists' lab kit has been solved by UCL (University College London) and Cardiff University archaeologists.
Oldest DNA Ever Recovered Suggests Earth Was Warmer
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Jul 05, 2007 |
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Ancient Greenland was green. New Danish research has shown that it was covered in conifer forest and, like southern Sweden today, had a relatively mild climate. Eske Willerslev, a professor at Copenhagen ...
Hungary uncovers 8 million-year-old trees
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Aug 03, 2007 |
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Hungary will spare no expense to preserve 16 cypress trees, estimated to be 8 million-years-old, recently uncovered in a northern lignite mine.
Dramatic shift from simple to complex marine ecosystems occurred 250M years ago at mass extinction
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Nov 23, 2006 |
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The earth experienced its biggest mass extinction about 250 million years ago, an event that wiped out an estimated 95% of marine species and 70% of land species. New research shows that this mass extinction did more than ...
Ancient flying dragon discovered in China
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Mar 21, 2007 |
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Chinese scientists say they've found the remains of a small "flying dragon" that lived around the time of the dinosaurs.
Academic uncovers Holy Grail of palaeontology
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Dec 03, 2007 |
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Palaeontologist Dr Phil Manning, working with National Geographic Channel has uncovered the Holy Grail of palaeontology in the United States: a partially intact dino mummy.
Human ancestors more primitive that once thought
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Sep 19, 2007 |
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A team of researchers, including Herman Pontzer, Ph.D., assistant professor of physical anthropology in Arts & Sciences, has determined through analysis of the earliest known hominid fossils outside of Africa, recently discovered ...
'Incredibly lucky' find yields important fish fossil
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Sep 07, 2007 |
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Searching for a different kind of riches in the ground, an oil company made a priceless find it never expected.
Peruvian citadel is site of earliest ancient solar observatory in the Americas
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Mar 01, 2007 |
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Archeologists from Yale and the University of Leicester have identified an ancient solar observatory at Chankillo, Peru as the oldest in the Americas with alignments covering the entire solar year, according ...
New evidence -- Clovis people not first to populate North America
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Feb 22, 2007 |
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The belief that the Clovis People were the first to populate North America some 11,500 years ago has been widely challenged in recent years, and a Texas A&M University anthropologist has found evidence he says could be the ...
The Fall of the Maya: 'They Did it to Themselves'
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Oct 07, 2009 |
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For 1200 years, the Maya dominated Central America. At their peak around 900 A.D., Maya cities teemed with more than 2,000 people per square mile -- comparable to modern Los Angeles County. Even in rural areas ...
Geobiologists Discover Unique 'Magnetic Death Star' Fossil
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Oct 21, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of scientists has discovered microscopic, magnetic fossils resembling spears and spindles, unlike anything previously seen, among sediment layers deposited during an ...
Beyond Mesopotamia: A radical new view of human civilization reported
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Aug 02, 2007 |
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A radically expanded view of the origin of civilization, extending far beyond Mesopotamia, is reported by journalist Andrew Lawler in the 3 August issue of Science.
Researchers find pre-Clovis human DNA
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Apr 03, 2008 |
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DNA from dried human excrement recovered from Oregon's Paisley Caves is the oldest found yet in the New World -- dating to 14,300 years ago, some 1,200 years before Clovis culture -- and provides apparent ...
Fossil record supports evidence of impending mass extinction
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Oct 24, 2007 |
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Global temperatures predicted for the coming centuries may trigger a new ‘mass extinction event’, where over 50 per cent of animal and plant species would be wiped out, warn scientists at the Universities of York and Leeds.
