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Earth's First Rainforest Unearthed

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Apr 23, 2007 | 4.5 / 5 (50) | 0

A spectacular fossilised forest has transformed our understanding of the ecology of the Earth’s first rainforests. It is 300 million years old.

Britain’s last Neanderthals were more sophisticated than we thought

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Jun 23, 2008 | 4.4 / 5 (51) | 4

An archaeological excavation at a site near Pulborough, West Sussex, has thrown remarkable new light on the life of northern Europe’s last Neanderthals. It provides a snapshot of a thriving, developing population – rather ...

Velociraptor had feathers

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Sep 20, 2007 | 4.9 / 5 (44) | 0

A new look at some old bones have shown that velociraptor, the dinosaur made famous in the movie Jurassic Park, had feathers. A paper describing the discovery, made by paleontologists at the American Museum ...

Scientists discover first fossil of a leaf insect

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Feb 08, 2007 | 4.7 / 5 (45) | 0

Stick and leaf insects both belong to the insect order “Phamatodea,” or “phasmid” for short, a term which shares the same roots as the word “phantom.” Besides appropriately describing the species’ illusory ...

480 million-year-old fossil sheds light on 150-year-old paleontological mystery

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Jan 09, 2008 | 4.5 / 5 (46) | 3

Discovery of an exceptional fossil specimen in southeastern Morocco that preserves evidence of the animal’s soft tissues has solved a paleontological puzzle about the origins of an extinct group of bizarre ...

King Solomon's (copper) mines? Deep dig finds confluence of science and the Bible

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Oct 27, 2008 | 4.2 / 5 (49) | 36

(PhysOrg.com) -- Did the Bible's King David and his son Solomon control the copper industry in present-day southern Jordan? Though that remains an open question, the possibility is raised once again by research ...

Stonehenge 'No Place for the Dead', Says Expert

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Nov 16, 2006 | 3.6 / 5 (56) | 0

Professor Timothy Darvill, Head of the Archaeology Group at Bournemouth University, has breathed new life into the controversy surrounding the origins of Stonehenge by publishing a theory which suggests that ...

Exciting New Kenyan Fossils Challenge Established Views on Early Evolution of Our Genus Homo

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Aug 08, 2007 | 4.5 / 5 (44) | 0

Two new fossils, described this week in the journal Nature, cast fresh light on a little understood and important period of human prehistory at the dawn of our own genus, Homo.

New evidence from earliest known human settlement in the Americas

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May 08, 2008 | 4.5 / 5 (43) | 0

New evidence from the Monte Verde archaeological site in southern Chile confirms its status as the earliest known human settlement in the Americas and provides additional support for the theory that one early ...

New evidence debunks 'stupid' Neanderthal myth

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Aug 26, 2008 | 4.5 / 5 (43) | 15

Research by UK and American scientists has struck another blow to the theory that Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) became extinct because they were less intelligent than our ancestors (Homo sapiens). The research ...

Vikings did not dress the way we thought

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Feb 25, 2008 | 4.2 / 5 (45) | 0

Vivid colors, flowing silk ribbons, and glittering bits of mirrors - the Vikings dressed with considerably more panache than we previously thought. The men were especially vain, and the women dressed provocatively, ...

Dinosaur Deaths Outsourced to India?

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Oct 29, 2007 | 4.3 / 5 (44) | 10

A series of monumental volcanic eruptions in India may have killed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, not a meteor impact in the Gulf of Mexico. The eruptions, which created the gigantic Deccan Traps lava ...

Ancient yucca chaws yield ancient DNA

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Aug 31, 2007 | 4.7 / 5 (40) | 1

In a groundbreaking study, two Harvard scientists have for the first time extracted human DNA from ancient artifacts. The work potentially opens up a new universe of sources for ancient genetic material, which ...

Agonized pose tells of dinosaur death throes

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Jun 07, 2007 | 4.4 / 5 (42) | 0

The peculiar pose of many fossilized dinosaurs, with wide-open mouth, head thrown back and recurved tail, likely resulted from the agonized death throes typical of brain damage and asphyxiation, according ...

Retired FSU Professor Captures a 'Living Fossil' on Video

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Jun 13, 2006 | 4.7 / 5 (39) | 0

The first images of a live specimen of a small, furry animal once believed to have gone extinct more than 11 million years ago have been captured during a Southeast Asian expedition led by a retired Florida ...