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Loud and lazy but didn't chew gum: Ancient koalas

Dec 19, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (3) | 0

Skull fragments of prehistoric koalas from the Riversleigh rainforests of millions of year ago suggest they shared the modern koala's "lazy" lifestyle and ability to produce loud "bellowing" calls to attract mates and provide ...

Ancient pygmy sea cow discovered

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

Dec 14, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (6) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The discovery of a Middle Eocene (48.6-37.2 million years ago) sea cow fossil by McGill University professor Karen Samonds has culminated in the naming of a new species. This primitive "dugong" ...

Researchers reveal ancient origins of modern opossum

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Dec 16, 2009 | 4 / 5 (2) | 0

A University of Florida researcher has co-authored a study tracing the evolution of the modern opossum back to the extinction of the dinosaurs and finding evidence to support North America as the center of ...

U of A students reaffirm the work of a 1920s paleontologist

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Dec 14, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (2) | 0

Three University of Alberta paleontology graduate students blew the dust off an 85-year-old dinosaur find to discover the original researcher had it right and a 1970s revision of his work was wrong.

Archaeological study of ostrich eggshell beads collected from SDG site

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Dec 07, 2009 | 3 / 5 (1) | 0

Ostrich eggshell (OES) beads from SDG site reflect primordial art and a kind of symbolic behavior of modern humans. Two different manufacturing pathways are usually used in the manufacture of OES beads in Upper Paleolithic. ...