Aug 03 2011
20-million-year-old Ape Skull Unearthed in Uganda
The find could shed light on the region's evolutionary history.
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Jul 27 2011
Oldest Bird Was Actually a Dinosaur
Archaeopteryx resembles a recently found two-pound dinosaur and gets knocked off its perch.
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Jul 21 2011
Wasps Populated Rotting Dinosaur Eggs
The eggs were good eats, as well as home, to numerous scavenging insects.
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Jul 19 2011
Footprints Show How Our Ancestors Walked
The ancestor who made the 3.7 million-year-old prints walked in a "less ape-ish way" than some humans do today, say scientists.
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Jul 12 2011
Triceratops Was Last Dinosaur Standing
The 65 million-year-old find suggests a meteor may have wiped out the dinosaurs in a sudden catastrophic event.
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Jul 11 2011
Tough Turtle Survived What Dinosaurs Couldn’t
The hearty river turtle outlived the meteor that killed off dinosaurs.
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Jul 07 2011
Polar Bears Have Irish Lineage
Some 50,000 years ago, modern polar bears split from a population of Irish brown bears.
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Jul 06 2011
Rhinoceros-Sized Wombat Unearthed in Australia
The fossil of the largest marsupial that ever roamed Australia could offer insight into climate change.
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Jun 30 2011
Dino-Era Animals: Now in Full Color
Paleontologists uncover chemical traces of pigmentation for prehistoric bird, fish and squid fossils.
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Jun 29 2011
Vegetarian Dinosaur Fought With Its Head
Not all dinosaurs had huge teeth and a taste for flesh, but new research suggests that at least one scrappy plant-eating dinosaur was a talented fighter, waging battle with its best weapon: a hard head.
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