Category: Paleontology
9 July 1998
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Early Fire Doused
Archaeologists have long thought that the first campfire was lighted by Homo erectus some 500,000 years ago, in a cave near Zhoukoudian, China. But a reanalysis of the cave, reported...
8 July 1998
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Precambrian "Jell-O"
The identity of Earth's first multicellular creatures, called Ediacarans, has long mystified scientists. The only evidence of the little floppy sea creatures, which lived about 600 million years ago, are...
2 July 1998
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Eight Millennia of Footwear Fashion
From the bear-fur shoes that once graced the feet of Japanese samurai to the sleek platform sandals that strut down runways today, people have long garbed the humblest part of...
26 June 1998
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Bake-It-Yourself Basalt
Making rock doesn't always require immense tectonic forces or eons to pass by. The ancient Mesopotamians, in fact, cranked out custom-made rocks in a couple of days, according to a...
23 June 1998
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Feathered Dinosaurs Discovered
Dinosaurs didn't die out completely, but instead took wing and evolved into what we now call birds. That's the conclusion of most experts who have seen new fossils of turkey-sized...
3 June 1998
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Ancient Human Skull Has a Modern Look
A well-preserved skull of an early human found in the northeast African country of Eritrea will help plug a major gap in the fossil record of human evolution. Dated to...
27 May 1998
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Young Ages for Australian Rock Art
Two years ago, archaeologists caused an international stir with their dates for a remote rock shelter called Jinmium in the Northern Territory of Australia. The dates of 116,000 to 176,000...
13 May 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
About-Face for Ancient Humans
Compared to a Neandertal's jutting mug, a modern human face is flat--tucked under its brain case in a vertical line. Now a researcher says this facial makeover stemmed from a...
5 May 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Government Plucks Up Kennewick Finger
Turning a deaf ear to scientists' pleas, the U.S. government plans to sequester the only fragments not already in its hands of that famous early American, Kennewick Man. A federal...
23 April 1998
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Drought Struck First Colonists
Bad weather may have plagued the first English settlements in America. According to a new analysis of tree-ring climate data, the "Lost Colony" of Roanoke Island in North Carolina and...
9 April 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Australopithecine Not so Precocious
SALT LAKE CITY--A few years ago, the big head of an ancient apelike skeleton known as Mr. Ples challenged the standard view that the earliest members of the human family,...
31 March 1998
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Ancient Ruins Found in Antarctica
DURAK, ARGENTINA--Scientists have uncovered the remains of a massive stone structure and other artifacts, estimated to be 4000 years old, in a remote corner of Antarctica. The find, announced at...
25 March 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Dino Guts Made Lasting Impression
Researchers have uncovered the fossilized remains of a dinosaur with some internal tissues intact, including what may have been the animal's gut and liver. The well-preserved specimen, described in tomorrow's...
17 March 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
New Fossil Links Birds and Dinos
Paleontologists digging in the sandstone of Madagascar have uncovered an ancient, raven-sized bird with a slashing claw fit for a Velociraptor. The 65-million- to 70-million-year-old fossil is one of the...
12 March 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Earlier Origin of Southwest Farmers
Large farming villages with stone terraces may have been established in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico 3000 years ago, much earlier than previously thought. A prehistoric northern Mexican...
11 March 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
The First Seafarers
Our early ancestor Homo erectus may have been smart and social enough to build seafaring rafts. This flattering portrait of these early humans is reinforced by new dates for stone...
12 February 1998
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NASA Zooms in on Famous Ancient Temple Complex
WASHINGTON, D.C.--New aerial radar views of ancient Angkor reveal previously undocumented ruins in the famous temple complex, built by the Khmer people in northern Cambodia between the 8th and 13th...
9 February 1998
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El Niño vs. The Giant Monkey
The mysterious giant birds and other animals etched into the desert near Nazca, Peru, may be in peril. Torrential rains in the Andes this week have sent rivers of mud...
2 January 1998
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A Steely Smile
When rich Romans lost teeth, they improved their smiles with removable dental prostheses that attached with gold wires. But near the end of the first century A.D., a Gallic farmer...
31 December 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
"Dino" Eggs Laid by Big Bird?
A new fossil find in the south of France suggests that many of the "dinosaur" eggs found in the region may actually have been laid by ostrichlike birds. The large...
23 December 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Earlier Arrival for Earliest Americans
Asian people first flocked to North America in a single wave as long as 40,000 years ago, some 10,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to a new study. The...
20 November 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Strange Beast From Down Under
The tooth fairy could not have been kinder. A set of four teeth in a tiny jaw discovered early this year on a beach in southern Australia have turned out...
13 November 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Crocodile Breath Wilts Dino-Bird Link?
A smudge in ancient siltstone has led a group of researchers to challenge the prevailing view that dinosaurs were warm-blooded and gave rise to birds. A report in tomorrow's Science,...
12 November 1997
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Casts of Thousands
Tilly Edinger, a vertebrate paleontologist who pioneered the study of how brains have evolved over the eons, was born on 13 November 1897. The German-born researcher, who immigrated to the...
6 October 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Pricey T. rex Heads for Chicago
Scientists hope to learn more about the lifestyle of history's most notorious predator after the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex ever found was auctioned off Saturday for a record $7.6 million....
19 September 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Grappling With Graptolites
Tomorrow is the 155th anniversary of the birth of Charles Lapworth, an English geologist famous for his work with marine fossils called graptolites. By fastidiously collecting the tiny, colonial sea...
19 September 1997
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Oldest Earthen Mounds Heighten Mystery
Millennia before the arrival of Europeans, early Native Americans went on a construction binge, dotting the eastern side of the continent with thousands of vast earthen mounds. Now, as reported...
12 September 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
A Past Master
James Hall, one of the United States' foremost invertebrate paleontologists, was born on this day in 1811. After the New York legislature authorized a state geological survey in 1836, Hall...
7 August 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Prestige Pays Off For Female Chimps
Male primates care about status, since dominance offers a host of benefits, from better food to more children. But researchers have long believed that female chimpanzees don't go in for...
11 July 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Scientists to Get Another Shot at Kennewick Man?
American anthropologists who have sued for the right to study an ancient human skeleton have won a round in an important legal fight. A U.S. District Court judge has ordered...
10 July 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Neandertal DNA
MUNICH, GERMANY--A stunning, first-ever analysis of DNA from a Neandertal bone supports the view that Neandertals were an evolutionary dead end rather than our ancestors and gives a major boost...
23 June 1997
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Oldest Fetal Dino Unearthed
Portuguese scientists say they have discovered the world's oldest dinosaur embryo. Found in 140-million-year-old sediments, the Jurassic period fossil is the first dino embryo to be found in Europe, and...
9 June 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
A Bloodstained T. rex?
Just as The Lost World hits the theaters with its bloodthirsty tyrannosaurs, scientists say they have turned the tables by extracting blood--or at least one of its key components, hemoglobin--from...
6 June 1997
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Submarine Hideout for Ancient Life
EAST MALVERN, AUSTRALIA--Battling cold, disorientation, and claustrophobic conditions, underwater cavers have located what may be the missing link between two major caves in the spectacular Jenolan Caves system, beneath the...
29 May 1997
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Face to Face With the Oldest Europeans
Spanish researchers have discovered 800,000-year-old fossils which they believe are a new species of early humans directly ancestral to us. If true, the find could force paleontologists to rewrite the...
22 May 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
For Sale: A Piece of Human History
The Internet has been a boon to science, but paleoanthropologists surfing the Web last week got an unpleasant surprise: A site called Fossilnet is advertising 20,000-year-old human skulls and even...
16 May 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Southern Terror
The skull of what may be the biggest meat-eating dinosaur ever found confirms that the southern continents were once a single huge stomping ground for dinosaurs. The skull, reconstructed from...
13 May 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
America and Japan's Emotional Bond
Is anger by any other name still anger? Yes, according to a group of anthropologists who have analyzed several pairs of words connoting emotion in English and Japanese. The findings,...
8 May 1997
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Permian Pollen Eaters
Russia's Ural Mountains have yielded what may be the oldest evidence yet for pollen eating among insects. If confirmed, the findings, reported in the current issue of Lethaia, would turn...
8 May 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Squash Seeds Quash Dissent on New World Farming
An analysis of squash seeds and other table scraps dug up in a Mexican cave suggests that people in the Americas gave up hunting and gathering for farming at least...
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