News tagged with fossil discovery

Australia had 'globe-trotting' dinosaurs: study

Scientists said Monday a new fossil discovery suggested Australia's dinosaurs were cosmopolitan globe-trotters, unlike the "unique weirdos" of its current wildlife.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

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'Sabre-toothed squirrel': First known mammalian skull from Late Cretaceous discovered in South America

Paleontologist Guillermo Rougier, Ph.D., professor of anatomical sciences and neurobiology at the University of Louisville, and his team have reported their discovery of two skulls from the first known mammal ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

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Evolution of human 'super-brain' tied to development of bipedalism, tool-making

Scientists seeking to understand the origin of the human mind may want to look to honeybees -- not ancestral apes -- for at least some of the answers, according to a University of Colorado Boulder archaeologist.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

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Ancient Lemurs Take Bite Out of Evolutionary Tree (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- About 40 miles outside Cairo, Egypt, National Science Foundation-supported paleontologists from three American universities are revealing features of a newly discovered African primate and ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

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Evolution axe goes on display

(PhysOrg.com) -- A flint hand axe that helped reveal the very ancient age of humankind goes on display at the Natural History Museum October 2009.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Scientist: Evolution debate will soon be history

(AP) -- Richard Leakey predicts skepticism over evolution will soon be history. Not that the avowed atheist has any doubts himself.

Biology / Evolution

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Sun sets on oil wells

Nobel Prize winner George Olah and Surya Prakash of USC Dornsife have found new traction in their methanol economy concept with their latest publication, the Open Fuel Standard Act of 2011 and the new discoveries ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

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