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15 May 2013 | ScienceNOW

Fossils May Pinpoint Critical Split Between Apes and Monkeys

by Michael Balter
Key evolutionary event eventually gave rise to human beings
13 May 2013 | ScienceNOW

ScienceShot: Earliest Ear Bones Sound Off on Human Hearing

by Michael Balter
Two-million-year-old fossils from human relatives reveal insights to language development
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7 May 2013 | ScienceNOW

Ancient DNA Found Hidden Below Sea Floor

by Traci Watson
Rare find opens window to 32,000-year-old marine worlds
30 April 2013 | ScienceNOW

ScienceShot: Fly Like a Hummingbird, Glide Like a Swift

by Traci Watson
Fossil bird reveals origins of two different types of flight
29 April 2013 | ScienceNOW

ScienceShot: Life After Extinction

by Sid Perkins
New analysis of fossil record reveals what happens to marginalized species after mass die-offs
29 April 2013 | ScienceNOW

ScienceShot: Early Birdlike Dinosaur Was a Fish Eater

by Ian Randall
Microraptor fossil reveals more varied diet than expected
10 April 2013 | ScienceNOW

Giant Dinosaurs Got a Head Start on Growth

by Lizzie Wade
Embryonic fossils reveal long-necked dinos grew faster than any other animal
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10 April 2013 | ScienceNOW

Live Chat: What Have We Learned About Dinosaurs Since Jurassic Park? (Video)

by Robert Coontz
Join a Google Hangout with experts about scientists' changing conceptions about these ancient beasts
17 March 2013 | ScienceNOW

The Early Bird Loses an Ovary

by Sid Perkins
Fossils reveal when ancient birds started producing fewer, larger eggs
14 March 2013 | ScienceNOW

Looking a Trilobite in the Eye

by Lizzie Wade
X-ray scans reveal hidden structures in ancient eyeballs
13 March 2013 | ScienceNOW

ScienceShot: Is That a Missing Link in Your Pocket?

by Lizzie Wade
Phallic fossil worms shed light on vertebrate evolution
6 March 2013 | ScienceNOW

Human Ancestors Were Fashion Conscious

by Michael Balter
Changes in 75,000-year-old-jewelry show that even early humans cared about personal style
5 March 2013 | ScienceNOW

Giant Camels Roamed Arctic Realms

by Sid Perkins
Moose-sized creatures were kin to today's ships of the desert
4 March 2013 | ScienceNOW

Ancient Alligator Ancestors Unearthed

by Sarah C. P. Williams
Two new fossilized skulls help fill a gap in the evolution of caimans
26 February 2013 | ScienceNOW

ScienceShot: Ancient Fish Sported Circular-Saw Jaw

by Sid Perkins
Creature was not a shark after all, according to new analysis
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17 February 2013 | ScienceNOW

New Whale Species Unearthed in California Highway Dig

by Carolyn Gramling
Road project reveals transitional forms to modern toothless whales
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16 February 2013 | ScienceNOW

ScienceShot: Ancient Pee Provides Clues to Africa's Past

by Michael Price
Hyrax waste suggests a wetter southern continent 12,000 years ago
7 February 2013 | ScienceNOW

Ancestor of All Placental Mammals Revealed

by Sid Perkins
Tiny, furry-tailed creature rose from the ashes of the dinosaurs
30 January 2013 | ScienceNOW

ScienceShot: A 270-Million-Year-Old Tapeworm Infection

by Rachel Nuwer
Parasites found in ancient shark poop is oldest evidence of such infections in vertebrates
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17 January 2013 | ScienceNOW

ScienceShot: Fossils of Enigmatic Sea Creature Surface

by Sid Perkins
Cotyledion tylodes had a goblet-shaped body and was heavily armored
7 January 2013 | ScienceNOW

ScienceShot: The First Sea Monster

by Fredric Heeren
Giant ichthyosaur gobbled its companions with killer teeth
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4 January 2013 | ScienceNOW

ScienceShot: Stubby-Tailed Dinosaurs Shook Their Thing

by Sid Perkins
Certain dinos flaunted feathers during courtship
21 December 2012 | ScienceNOW

Ghost in the Fossil

by Sid Perkins
X-ray technique reveals previously hidden structures
12 December 2012 | ScienceNOW

'Marine' Fossils May Instead Represent Early Land Dwellers

by Sid Perkins
Controversial find would push back transition to land by tens of millions of years
11 December 2012 | ScienceNOW

ScienceShot: Lizard Named After Obama Died in Dinosaur Apocalypse

by Naomi Lubick
But Obamadon's successors got a postextinction bounce
4 December 2012 | ScienceNOW

The Earliest Known Dino?

by Michael Balter
Labrador-sized creature lived in modern-day Tanzania more than 240 million years ago
3 December 2012 | ScienceNOW

ScienceShot: Cocoon Preserves Microbe for the Ages

by Sid Perkins
Such structures are likely an untapped reservoir of microbial fossils
7 November 2012 | ScienceNOW

Early Humans Handed Down Toolmaking Tech

by Traci Watson
Homo sapiens imparted their innovative advances to descendants
25 October 2012 | ScienceNOW

Dinosaurs Sprouted Wings Earlier Than Previously Thought

by Michael Balter
But these wings were probably used for courtship or brooding rather than flight
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17 October 2012 | ScienceNOW

ScienceShot: Ancient Jaws Had Real Teeth

by Sid Perkins
But first jawed vertebrates didn't grow their chompers like the rest of us
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12 October 2012 | ScienceNOW

Baby Back, Waaaay Back, Ribs

by Traci Watson
Remains of ancient meal suggest early humans may have hunted meat
4 October 2012 | ScienceNOW

Cows of the Cretaceous

by Michael Balter
Duck-billed dinosaurs out-chomped the competition
30 August 2012 | ScienceNOW

Genome Brings Ancient Girl to Life

by Ann Gibbons
Denisovan child sheds light on the evolution of humans, Neandertals
3 August 2012 | ScienceNOW

The Mysterious Affair at Kents Cavern

by Michael Balter
Archaeologists fight over the meaning of an ancient human jawbone
28 June 2012 | ScienceNOW

Ancient Hunter-Gatherers Kept in Touch

by Michael Balter
Study suggests close cultural ties across vast distances
27 June 2012 | ScienceNOW

Early Human Ate Like a Giraffe

by Ann Gibbons
Food stuck in fossil teeth reveals diet and behavior of a 2-million-year-old relative
27 June 2012 | ScienceNOW

ScienceShot: Dino Bones Heat Up

by Sid Perkins
Tree-ring-like features are not a sign of cold-bloodedness, according to new study
22 June 2012 | ScienceNOW

Inner Ears Reveal Speed of Early Primates

by Elizabeth Preston
Scans of fossils suggest that human ancestors were faster and more agile than previously thought
5 June 2012 | ScienceNOW

ScienceShot: Dino Twinkle Toes

by Sid Perkins
Fossil-scanning technique suggests that some dinosaurs were lighter on their feet than previously thought
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4 June 2012 | ScienceNOW

An Asian Origin for Human Ancestors?

by Ann Gibbons
Myanmar fossil suggests our earliest predecessors may not have come from Africa
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