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Early Human Skulls Shaped for Nut-Cracking

Early Human Skulls Shaped for Nut-Cracking (Video)

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Feb 03, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- New research conducted in part by researchers at The George Washington University has led to novel insights into how feeding and dietary adaptations may have shaped the evolution of the earliest ...





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'Hitler' skull belonged to woman: scientists

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created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (7) | comments 4

A skull fragment thought to come from Adolf Hitler is in fact that of an unidentified woman, according to a US study that has resurrected questions about the Nazi leader's death.


Unusual fish-eating dinosaur had crocodile-like skull

Unusual fish-eating dinosaur had crocodile-like skull

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created Jan 14, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (16) | comments 1

An unusual dinosaur has been shown to have a skull that functioned like a fish-eating crocodile, despite looking like a dinosaur. It also possessed two huge hand claws, perhaps used as grappling hooks to lift ...


T.rex's oldest ancestor identified

T.rex's oldest ancestor identified

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created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Remains of the oldest-known relative of T.rex have been identified, more than 100 years after being pulled out of a Gloucestershire reservoir, according to research published in the Zoological Jo ...


Museum unveils world's largest T-rex skull

Museum unveils world's largest T-rex skull

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created Apr 07, 2006 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (12) | comments 0

The world's largest Tyrannosaurus rex skull, unearthed nearly 40 years ago in eastern Montana, is now on display at the Museum of the Rockies at Montana State University in Bozeman.


54-million-year-old skull reveals early evolution of primate brains

54-million-year-old skull reveals early evolution of primate brains

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created Jun 22, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (14) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Florida and the University of Winnipeg have developed the first detailed images of a primitive primate brain, unexpectedly revealing that cousins of our earliest ...


Bone Implant Offers Hope for Skull Deformities

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A synthetic bone matrix offers hope for babies born with craniosynostosis, a condition that causes the plates in the skull to fuse too soon. Implants replacing some of the infant’s bone with the biodegradable ...


Team Discovers New Dinosaur Species From Montana

Team Discovers New Dinosaur Species From Montana

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created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 0

A husband and wife team of American paleontologists has discovered a new species of dinosaur that lived 112 million years ago during the early Cretaceous of central Montana.


'Hobbit' fossils represent a new species, concludes UM anthropologist

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created Dec 17, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (15) | comments 2

University of Minnesota anthropology professor Kieran McNulty (along with colleague Karen Baab of Stony Brook University in New York) has made an important contribution toward solving one of the greatest paleoanthropological ...


Clues To Wrinkles May Be Found In Facial Bone Structure

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created Nov 12, 2007 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 0

There's a new wrinkle in the battle against looking old: doctors have discovered it's not gravity that's pulling your skin down -- it may be your shifting bone structure.


Biodegradable synthetic resin replaces vital body parts

Biodegradable synthetic resin replaces vital body parts

Chemistry / Polymers

created Jun 09, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (24) | comments 7

Researchers at the University of Twente (UT) have developed a new type of resin that can be broken down by the body. This new resin makes it possible to replicate important body parts exactly and make them ...



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