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New technique successfully dissolves blood clots in the brain and lowers risk of brain damage after stroke

(Medical Xpress) -- Johns Hopkins neurologists report success with a new means of getting rid of potentially lethal blood clots in the brain safely without cutting through easily damaged brain tissue or removing large pieces ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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New 'shieldcroc' species of ancient crocodile discovered

A University of Missouri researcher has identified a new species of prehistoric crocodile. The extinct creature, nicknamed "Shieldcroc" due to a thick-skinned shield on its head, is an ancestor of today's ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

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Researchers identify skull of South America's oldest predator

(PhysOrg.com) -- Back in 2008, budding paleontologists, Juan Cisneros and Cesar Schultz, still college students, found a skull in a part of Brazil known as the pampas region of Rio Grande do Sul. They’d ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 4 | with audio podcast report

Human skull study causes evolutionary headache

Scientists studying a unique collection of human skulls have shown that changes to the skull shape thought to have occurred independently through separate evolutionary events may have actually precipitated each other.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Dec 20, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Researchers urge caution when buying noisy toys

While Road Rippers Lightning Rods, Let's Rock Elmo and the I Am T-Pain musical microphone might be sought-after gifts this holiday season, parents should ensure that their children don't risk permanent hearing damage by misusing ...

Medicine & Health / Health

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Studying bat skulls, evolutionary biologists discover how species evolve

A new study involving bat skulls, bite force measurements and scat samples collected by an international team of evolutionary biologists is helping to solve a nagging question of evolution: Why some groups ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Whale fossils show important characters of the transition to water

(PhysOrg.com) -- Decorative stone is often used in buildings for its strength and durability but is not often thought of as a hiding place for fossils. If not for an observant Italian stonecutter, a recently ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

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Neurosurgeons champion brain bypass in select patients

A microsurgical procedure that has lost some ground to advances in endovascular therapy still plays a critical role in the management of selected neurovascular disorders, according to a University Hospitals Case Medical Center ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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'Sabre-toothed squirrel': First known mammalian skull from Late Cretaceous discovered in South America

Paleontologist Guillermo Rougier, Ph.D., professor of anatomical sciences and neurobiology at the University of Louisville, and his team have reported their discovery of two skulls from the first known mammal ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Nov 02, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

New 'scarless' surgery takes out tumors through natural skull opening

A technique developed by Johns Hopkins surgeons is providing a new route to get to and remove tumors buried at the base of the skull: through the natural hole behind the molars, above the jawbone and beneath the cheekbone.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Oct 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

German museum returning Namibian skulls

(AP) -- Namibian tribal leaders were taking possession Friday of the skulls of 20 of their countrymen, taken by German colonial forces more than a century ago for racial experiments.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

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Rebuilding the head of an armoured dinosaur (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Alberta-led research team has taken a rare look inside the skull of a dinosaur and come away with unprecedented details on the brain and nasal passages of the 72 million year ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

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Not just skin deep -- CT study of early humans reveals evolutionary relationships

CT scans of fossil skull fragments may help researchers settle a long-standing debate about the evolution of Africa's Australopithecus, a key ancestor of modern humans that died out some 1.4 million years ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Sep 19, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Conjoined Sudanese twins doing well after separation: medics

British surgeons said Monday that one-year-old conjoined twins from Sudan were recovering well despite huge odds following four operations to separate the girls' fused heads. ...

Medicine & Health / Other

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New dolphin species discovered in Australia

Researchers in Australia have discovered that dolphin colonies living around Melbourne are a species unlike any other in the world, they revealed on Thursday.

Biology / Plants & Animals

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