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Late Neanderthals and modern human contact in southeastern Iberia
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Dec 09, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- It is widely accepted that Upper Paleolithic early modern humans spread westward across Europe about 42,000 years ago, displacing and absorbing Neanderthal populations in the process. However, ...
Paleontologists Discover Ancient Jurassic Mammal with New Type of Teeth
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Oct 31, 2007 |
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A team of Chinese and American scientists has discovered a new mammal from the 165 million-year-old lakebeds of the Jurassic Period in Northern China.
Ancient sea creature rediscovered after 25 years
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Sep 26, 2006 |
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University of Alberta scientists have named a new species of ancient marine reptile, fondly called the Ping Pong Ichthyosaur after the spot the prehistoric creature called home for the last 25 years.
China's earliest modern human
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Apr 02, 2007 |
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Researchers at WUSTL and the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) in Beijing have been studying a 40,000-year-old early modern human skeleton found in China and have determined ...
New evidence on the role of climate in Neanderthal extinction
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Sep 12, 2007 |
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The mystery of what killed the Neanderthals has moved a step closer to resolution after an international study led by the University of Leeds has ruled out one of the competing theories – catastrophic climate change – as ...
Scientists Find Lamprey a 'Living Fossil' -- 360 Million-year-old Fish Hasn't Evolved Much
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Oct 25, 2006 |
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Scientists from the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, and the University of Chicago have uncovered a remarkably well-preserved fossil lamprey from the Devonian period that reveals today’s lampreys ...
Researchers give name to ancient mystery creature
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Oct 18, 2006 |
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For the first time, researchers at the University of Alberta have been able to put a name and a description to an ancient mammal that still defies classification.
Bulgaria uncovers 2,000-year-old temple
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Jul 24, 2006 |
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Archaeologists have uncovered a Bronze Age temple thousands of years old in southern Bulgaria, news reports said Monday.
Earliest hominid: Not a hominid at all?
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Jun 19, 2006 |
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The earliest known hominid fossil, which dates to about 7 million years ago, is actually some kind of ape, according to an international team of researchers led by the University of Michigan. The finding, they ...
Fossils older than dinosaurs reveal pattern of early animal evolution on Earth
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Jul 26, 2007 |
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The abundant diversity of characteristics within species likely helped fuel the proliferation and evolution of an odd-looking creature that emerged from an unprecedented explosion of life on Earth more than ...
The Emerging Fate Of The Neandertals
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Apr 25, 2007 |
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For nearly a century, anthropologists have been debating the relationship of Neandertals to modern humans. Central to the debate is whether Neandertals contributed directly or indirectly to the ancestry of ...
Discovery raises new doubts about dinosaur-bird links
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Jun 09, 2009 |
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Researchers at Oregon State University have made a fundamental new discovery about how birds breathe and have a lung capacity that allows for flight - and the finding means it's unlikely that birds descended from any known ...
Stone Age Graveyard reveals Lifestyles of a 'Green Sahara': Two Successive Cultures Thrived Lakeside
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Aug 14, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The largest Stone Age graveyard found in the Sahara, which provides an unparalleled record of life when the region was green, has been discovered in Niger by National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence ...
Unique fossil discovery shows Antarctic was once much warmer
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Jul 23, 2008 |
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A new fossil discovery- the first of its kind from the whole of the Antarctic continent- provides scientists with new evidence to support the theory that the polar region was once much warmer.
Everyday text shows that Old Persian was probably more commonly used than previously thought
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Jun 18, 2007 |
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For the first time, a text has been found in Old Persian language that shows the written language in use for practical recording and not only for royal display. The text is inscribed on a damaged clay tablet ...
