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Ivory sculpture in Germany could be world's oldest

Ivory sculpture in Germany could be world's oldest

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created May 13, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- The 2008 excavations at Hohle Fels Cave in the Swabian Jura of southwestern Germany recovered a female figurine carved from mammoth ivory from the basal Aurignacian deposit. This figurine, ...





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Late-surviving megafauna exposed by ancient DNA in frozen soil

Late-surviving megafauna exposed by ancient DNA in frozen soil

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Extinct woolly mammoths and ancient American horses may have been grazing the North American steppe for several thousand years longer than previously thought. After plucking ancient DNA from frozen soil in ...


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The mammoths' swan song revised

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (12) | comments 4

This is shown by samples of ancient DNA, analysed by an international team of research scientists under the leadership of Professor Eske Willerslev from Copenhagen University. Analyses of ancient DNA thereby ...


Absence of evidence for a meteorite impact event 13,000 years ago

Absence of evidence for a meteorite impact event 13,000 years ago

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (17) | comments 13

An international team of scientists led by researchers at the University of Hawaii at Manoa have found no evidence supporting an extraterrestrial impact event at the onset of the Younger Dryas ~13000 years ...


World interest in Australian fishery impact test

World interest in Australian fishery impact test

Biology / Ecology

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

An Australian method for assessing the environmental impact of marine fisheries has caught the eye of fishery management agencies worldwide.


Mastodon Tusk May Be Largest Ever Uncovered In NYS

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Research under way at the New York State Museum indicates that a huge mastodon tusk, recently excavated by Museum scientists in Orange County, may be the largest tusk ever found in New York State.


Evolution axe goes on display

Evolution axe goes on display

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created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A flint hand axe that helped reveal the very ancient age of humankind goes on display at the Natural History Museum October 2009.


Protecting humans and animals from diseases in wildlife

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Avian influenza (H5N1), rabies, plague, Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), and more recently swine flu (H1N1) are all examples of diseases that have made the leap from animals to humans. As the list continues to grow, ...


Replica of the world's best preserved wooly mammoth - a 40,000 year old baby named Lyuba

Baby mammoth preserved in frozen soil heads to Chicago

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Oct 04, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 3

Sucked to her death in a muddy river bed, a baby woolly mammoth spent 40,000 years frozen in the Siberian permafrost where her body was so perfectly preserved traces of her mother's milk remained in her belly.


Age-old kids' query in a text message: Wuz4dina?

Technology / Other

created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Teens and texting is a subject that's often discussed in pathological terms. They're texting in class! They're sexting! They're running up $5,000 bills! They need thumb therapy!


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Scrap Google book settlement and start fresh

Technology / Internet

created Sep 04, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

At first blush, Google's plan to digitize millions of books seemed like a grand idea, opening up the world's libraries to readers everywhere.



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