News tagged with ancient bones
Making the bones speak
In a narrow, modest laboratory in Michigan State University’s Giltner Hall, students pore over African skeletons from the Middle Ages in an effort to make the bones speak.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Feb 22, 2012 |
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Paleontologists turning to neural networks to find new dig sites
(PhysOrg.com) -- For hundreds, if not thousands of years, researchers of one kind or another have dug into the earth in search of clues to help explain our past. In so doing they have found evidence of ancient peoples that ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Nov 09, 2011 |
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Where have all the dodos gone?
Biology professor Beth Shapiro is one part laboratory scientist and one part Indiana Jones style adventurer, traveling to remote locations to find fossilized bones and eggshells of ancient animals and extract ...
Jun 16, 2011 |
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Reptilian root canal: Study reveals infection in jaw of ancient fossil
A reptile that lived 275-million years ago in what is now Oklahoma is giving paleontologists a glimpse of the oldest known toothache.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Apr 18, 2011 |
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Zed's dead: LA museum unearths ice-age mammoth skull
Excited archeologists in California are rubbing their hands: after three years' back-breaking work they are finally, painstakingly revealing the face of Zed, the ice age mammoth.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Mar 18, 2011 |
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X-rays reveal hidden leg of an ancient snake
(PhysOrg.com) -- A novel X-ray imaging technology is helping scientists better understand how in the course of evolution snakes have lost their legs. The researchers hope the new data will help resolve a heated ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Feb 07, 2011 |
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Italians think they have found Caravaggio's bones
Italian researchers believe they have found the remains of Caravaggio, but 400 years later some of the mysteries surrounding the death of the artist may never be solved.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jun 16, 2010 |
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French find puts humans in Europe 200,000 years earlier
Experts on prehistoric man are rethinking their dates after a find in a southern French valley suggested our ancestors may have reached Europe 1.57 million years ago: 200,000 years earlier than we thought.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Dec 15, 2009 |
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New technology helps scientists understand ancient fossils
Some of the world's oldest human bones and other ancient relics are studied here using some of the world's newest technologies.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Dec 07, 2009 |
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Studying ancient man to learn to prevent disease
Health care as we know it didn't exist 3,000 years ago. But along the Georgia coast, the Pacific Northwest, and coastal Brazil, people grew tall and strong and lived relatively free of disease. They ate game, fish, shellfish ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Sep 15, 2009 |
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Scientists find more dinosaur bones at Utah quarry
(AP) -- Scientists at one of Utah's major new dinosaur quarries have found 60 to 70 new bones this spring, including what appears to be a 20-foot-long neck bone discovered this week.
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Jun 05, 2009 |
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Humanity's earliest written works go online
(AP) -- National libraries and the U.N. education agency put some of humanity's earliest written works online Tuesday, from ancient Chinese oracle bones to the first European map of the New World.
Apr 21, 2009 |
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1.5 million-year-old fossil humans walked on modern feet (Video)
Ancient footprints found at Rutgers' Koobi Fora Field School show that some of the earliest humans walked like us and did so on anatomically modern feet 1.5 million years ago.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Feb 26, 2009 |
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