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First prehistoric twins ever discovered

Researchers at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) announced the discovery of the first documentable prehistoric twins ever discovered in a study published in the International Journal of Osteoarchaeology that was reviewed at the Alpha Galileo web site on May...

New Theory: Female choice a major human evolutionary driver

Sergey Gavrilets of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Department of Mathematics, and National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis at the University of Tennessee presented a mathematically sound new theory that explains the development of the emergence of...

New research traces origin of wealth inequality to Neolithic Age

Alex Bentley, Professor of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Bristol (UK), and archaeologists from universities across Europe reported new evidence that indicates wealth inequality in Europe can be traced to the Stone Age in the Proceedings of the...

Harvard Research: Birds are living dinosaurs

A new study, led by Harvard University scientists, published in the May 27, 2012, issue of Nature and reviewed at the Eureka Alert web site the same day concludes that birds are much more closely related to dinosaurs than previously...

Chechen dinosaur eggs proven to be rocks

The purported discovery of the first known cache of dinosaur eggs in the North Caucasus Chechen Republic reported on April 13, 2012, has been determined to be stones instead of dinosaur eggs according to an article in the May 23...

2011 top ten new species list announced

The International Institute for Species Exploration at Arizona State University (ASU) and an international committee of scientific experts announced their picks for the top ten new species discovered in 2011 on May 23, 2012, in a press release at the...

Human spine structure found in 345 million year old eel

Lauren Sallan, a graduate student in the Program in Integrative Biology at the University of Chicago Biological Sciences Division, described a new interpretation of the spinal structure of a 345 million year old eel fossil that is extremely similar to...

New yellow rain frog species from Panama revealed

Andreas Hertz and his colleagues, reptile and amphibian specialists at the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt am Main Germany, reported the discovery of a new species of rain frog in the open access journal ZooKeys on May 22. 2012. The...

Squid ink melanin lasts 160 million years

The melanin from two 162 million years old cephalopod ink sacs collected from the Peterborough Member of the Oxford Clay Formation (Middle Jurassic, Upper Callovian) at Christian Malford, Wiltshire (UK) was determined to be identical to the melanin in modern...

Largest prehistoric turtle ever found

Edwin Cadena, a doctoral student at North Carolina State University, is credited with discovering the largest prehistoric fossil turtle ever found in a paper published in the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology that was reviewed at the Eureka Alert web site...

First prehistoric twins ever discovered

New Theory: Female choice a major human evolutionary driver

New research traces origin of wealth inequality to Neolithic Age

Harvard Research: Birds are living dinosaurs

Chechen dinosaur eggs proven to be rocks

2011 top ten new species list announced

Human spine structure found in 345 million year old eel

New yellow rain frog species from Panama revealed

Squid ink melanin lasts 160 million years

Largest prehistoric turtle ever found

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