Category: Paleontology
24 February 2011
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Child Burial Provides Rare Glimpse of Early Americans
Cremation of a 3-year-old reveals unique burial practices in the first Alaskans
23 February 2011
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ScienceShot: How Arthropods Got Their Armor
520-million-year-old "walking cactus" provides clues to the evolution of crabs, spiders, and their relatives
23 February 2011
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Dinosaur Munchies May Have Bulked Up Pinecones
Once-slender seed carriers got bigger and spikier when long-necked dinos showed up
16 February 2011
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Ancient Britons Used Skulls as Cups
Gruesome goblets were carefully fashioned, may have been used to serve up enemies' brains
10 February 2011
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The Mystery of the Stone Scorpion
Chemical bonds hold clues to how flexible arthropod exoskeletons can turn into fossils
10 February 2011
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Lucy Had a Spring in Her Step
New foot bone suggests human ancestor spent more time walking than in the trees
7 February 2011
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ScienceShot: Snake Legs—Going, Going, Gone
A new technique yields insights into how ancient reptiles lost their limbs
27 January 2011
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How to Read a Prehistoric Thermometer
New technique helps reconstruct one of Earth's largest mass extinctions
26 January 2011
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How Giants Conquered the Earth
A new fossil helps explain how sauropod dinosaurs got so big
24 January 2011
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ScienceShot: A Dino With Just One Finger
Tyrannosaurus rex relative sported a single, clawlike digit
20 January 2011
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Mama Pterosaur Discovered in China
Ancient flying reptile and her egg provide new clues about this mysterious animal
13 January 2011
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Fall of Rome Recorded in Trees
Tree-ring samples correlate with important events in European history
4 January 2011
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ScienceShot: Put Up Your Dukes!
An ancient flightless bird used its wings like clubs to battle rivals
22 December 2010
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Finger Points to New Type of Human
"Denisovans" lived at the same time as Neandertals and may have interbred with Melanesians
20 December 2010
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Grisly Scene Gives Clues to Neandertal Family Structure
Cannibalized bones suggest human cousins lived in small groups of related men
20 December 2010
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ScienceShot: 'Carnivorous' Dinos May Have Actually Been Vegetarians
Many T. rex relatives were not meat eaters
24 November 2010
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Giant Eruption Cut Down to Size
New model reduces the climate-cooling impacts of Toba, a massive "supervolcano"
15 November 2010
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Large Size Didn't Keep Pterosaurs Grounded
Group argues that ancient reptiles flew just fine, despite their massive weight
15 November 2010
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Neandertal Children Developed on the Fast Track
Tooth analysis suggests our close cousins matured faster than we did
28 October 2010
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Stone Age Toolmakers Surprisingly Sophisticated
Our ancestors advanced beyond rocks and hammers far earlier than archeologists thought
27 October 2010
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Mouse-Sized Primates Shed Light on Human Origins
Thirty-nine-million-year-old teeth belong to ancestors of monkeys, apes, and humans
18 October 2010
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The Cavemen's Complex Kitchen
Our ancestors ground flour as early as 30,000 years ago
18 October 2010
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A Setback for Neandertal Smarts?
Cave reanalysis suggests that our closest cousins may not have made jewelry and other symbolic objects after all
15 October 2010
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ScienceShot: T. rex, a Cannibal?
Fossilized bite marks indicate that the famed dinos sometimes ate each other
12 October 2010
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Dead Fish Tell Evolutionary Tales
Experiments with decaying carcasses provide insights into the vertebrate fossil record
5 October 2010
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ScienceShot: An Earlier Start for Dinosaurs?
Footprints in Polish sediments suggest precursor species appeared soon after a global catastrophe
30 September 2010
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ScienceShot: Dinosaurs Just Got Taller
Study of bone joints and cartilage gives some of the beasts a 30 centimeter lift
22 September 2010
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ScienceShot: Unique Horned Dinosaur Fossils Found in Utah
Two Triceratopslike creatures sported horns in unusual places
22 September 2010
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Long-Sought Viking Settlement Found
Archaeologists claim to have found a legendary shipbuilding town in Ireland
8 September 2010
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ScienceShot: Hunchback Dinosaur Prowled the Plains of Spain
Unusual feature could be a link to birds
30 August 2010
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Mammoth-Killer Impact Rejected
Experts refute what they say was the last potential piece of evidence linking an asteroid to mammoth extinction
30 August 2010
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The First Feast?
Researchers find evidence for earliest symbolic meal 12,000 years ago in Israel
18 August 2010
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ScienceShot: Bantamweight 'Terror Bird' Jabbed Like a Boxer
Andalgalornis
slashed at prey with a sharp beak attached to a huge skull
17 August 2010
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ScienceShot: Zombies Thrived on Ancient Earth
Parasitized ants were early victims of fungal mind control
17 August 2010
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Strange Rocks May Preserve Some of Earth's First Animals
Fossil find suggests presence of sea sponges 645 million years ago
11 August 2010
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The First Butchers?
Scientists discover the oldest evidence of stone tool use to carve meat
5 August 2010
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ScienceShot: Return of the Drakozoon!
Scientists get their first detailed peek at one of Earth's earliest--and strangest--animals
4 August 2010
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Video: Ancient Crocodile Chewed Like a Mammal
Cat-sized fossil contains decidedly uncrocodilian teeth
27 July 2010
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Jumping Genes Shed Light on Marsupial Migration
Genetic footprint reveals pouched mammals' relationships
7 July 2010
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Early Humans Ventured Far North
Researchers uncover earliest evidence of humans living above 45° latitude
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