... No, it wasn't found alive, which may be a good thing: T-Rexes were intimidating enough before they could fly! In rural China, paleontologists (dino-archaeologists) have discovered a massive and probably...
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From The Hankyoreh (Korea): An international team supported by the Gyeonggi provincial government has excavated a rare dinosaur fossil in the Gobi Desert in Mongolia.Hwaseong City in Gyeonggi Province and an international dinosaur excavation team led by Lee Yung-nam, a...
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Scientists believe a species of bat has an inbuilt magnetic compass to find its way home over long distances, in addition to its famous echolocation*, which guides it around its neighbourhood.Princeton University batologists used radio telemetry aboard a small aircraft to...
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"Further evidence that Engels was correct in his ground breaking study; The role of Labour in the Transition From Ape to Man. Once again proving Hobbes wrong. Gendered division of labor gave modern humans advantage over Neanderthals"
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Scientists are reconstructing the genome of Neanderthals - the close relations of modern man. The ambitious project involves isolating genetic fragments from fossils of the prehistoric beings who originally...
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From CBC News, Canada: There may be a little Neanderthal in all of us.That's the conclusion of anthropologists who have re-examined 30,000-year-old fossilized bones from a Romanian cave - bones that languished in...
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Archaeologists have identified fossils belonging to some of the earliest modern humans to settle in Europe.
The research team has dated six bones found in the Pestera Muierii cave, Romania, to 30,000 years ago.
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Read what all the buzz is about. Bzzzz........"A scientist has found a 100 million-year-old bee trapped in amber, making it possibly the oldest bee ever found."
From The Washington Post: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - One of the world's most famous fossils - the 3.2 million-year-old Lucy skeleton unearthed in Ethiopia in 1974 - will go on display for the first time in the United States next year, and is likely to make a stop at the...
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University of Colorado at Boulder researchers have discovered what appears to be the first evidence of parasites in the gut contents of a dinosaur, indicating even the giants that roamed Earth 75 million years ago...
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