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Paleontologists Discover New Mammal from Mesozoic Era
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Mar 14, 2007 |
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An international team of American and Chinese paleontologists has discovered a new species of mammal that lived 125 million years ago during the Mesozoic Era, in what is now the Hebei Province in China.
Most ancient case of tuberculosis found in 500,000-year-old human; points to modern health issues
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Dec 07, 2007 |
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Although most scientists believe tuberculosis emerged only several thousand years ago, new research from The University of Texas at Austin reveals the most ancient evidence of the disease has been found in ...
Ancient mummy has no modern children, says 'Iceman' study
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Oct 30, 2008 |
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The 5,300 year old human mummy – dubbed Öetzi or 'the Tyrolean Iceman' – is highly unlikely to have modern day relatives, according to new research published today.
Early Bronze Age Mortuary Complex Discovered in Syria
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Oct 24, 2006 |
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An ancient, untouched Syrian tomb that wowed the archaeological world on its discovery by Johns Hopkins University researchers nearly six years ago has revealed another secret: It is not alone.
Neanderthal 'butcher shop' found in France
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Sep 27, 2006 |
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French and Belgian archaeologists say they have proof Neanderthals lived in near-tropical conditions near France's Channel coast about 125,000 years ago.
Scientists find 245 million-year-old burrows of land vertebrates in Antarctica
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Jun 08, 2008 |
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For the first time paleontologists have found fossilized burrows of tetrapods – any land vertebrates with four legs or leglike appendages – in Antarctica dating from the Early Triassic epoch, about 245 million ...
Dinosaur from Sahara ate like a 'Mesozoic cow'
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Nov 15, 2007 |
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A 110 million-year-old dinosaur that had a mouth that worked like a vacuum cleaner, hundreds of tiny teeth and nearly translucent skull bones will be unveiled Thursday, Nov. 15, at the National Geographic ...
Team IDs ancient cargo from DNA
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Oct 30, 2007 |
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For the first time, researchers have identified DNA from inside ceramic containers in an ancient shipwreck on the seafloor, making it possible to determine what the ship's cargo was even though there was no ...
Mysterious 1934 Disappearance of Explorer Everett Ruess in Utah Solved
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Apr 30, 2009 |
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The mysterious disappearance of Everett Ruess, a 20-year-old artist, writer and footloose explorer who wandered the Southwest in the early 1930s on a burro and who has become a folk hero to many, has been ...
Tools give earlier date for 'modern-thinking' humans
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Oct 31, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team, including Oxford University archaeologists, has dated two explosions of sophisticated stone tool making in southern Africa much more precisely than has previously been ...
Scientists discover massive Jurassic marine reptile
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Mar 05, 2008 |
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University of Alaska Museum of the North earth sciences curator Patrick Druckenmiller spent several weeks last summer working with a Norwegian research team to excavate a large pliosaur specimen in the remote ...
Archeologist says Holy Grail is in Rome
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Jun 22, 2007 |
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An Italian archeologist says the Holy Grail -- a cup used by Jesus Christ at the Last Supper -- is buried beneath a church in Rome.
Fossil fragments reveal 500-million-year-old monster predator
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Mar 19, 2009 |
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Hurdia victoria was originally described in 1912 as a crustacean-like animal. Now, researchers from Uppsala University and colleagues reveal it to be just one part of a complex and remarkable new animal that h ...
Canadian scientist aims to turn chickens into dinosaurs
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Aug 25, 2009 |
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After years spent hunting for the buried remains of prehistoric animals, a Canadian paleontologist now plans to manipulate chicken embryos to show he can create a dinosaur.
40,000-year-old skull shows both modern human and Neandertal traits
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Jan 16, 2007 |
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Humans continued to evolve significantly long after they were established in Europe, and interbred with Neandertals as they settled across the continent, according to new research published this week in the ...
