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Fossil HIV reveals virus history

Dee — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 23:26:41 +0000

A preserved specimen of lymph node nearly half a century old has revealed how rapidly the HIV virus has diversified, according to international research.

65 million-year-old rare dinosaur nest fetches andpound;212,000 in US auction

Sophia — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:50:49 +0000

An unusually well-preserved 65 million-year-old dinosaur nest containing fossil eggs was sold in an auction for nearly £212,000. The Cretaceous-era nest was unearthed in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong in 1984 and eventually was...

Museum confirms discovery of rare fossil

AP — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:55:02 +0000

Scientists with the Virginia Museum of Natural History have confirmed the discovery of a 500 million-year-old fossil called a stromatolite.Officials at the Martinsville museum say the fossil was found at the Boxley Blue Ridge Quarry.The museum...

Museum PR coordinator finds new dinosaur fossil

AP — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:25:50 +0000

A public relations coordinator for a Texas museum recently spotted the fossilized bones of a 75-million-year-old duckbilled dinosaur while taking a tour of the area where a mummified duckbill was found eight years ago.The mummified...

New Evidence of Earliest North Americans

AP — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:02:06 +0000

New evidence shows humans lived in North America more than 14,000 years ago, 1,000 years earlier than had previously been known.Discovered in a cave in Oregon, fossil feces yielded DNA indicating these early residents were related to people living...

1.3 Million Year Old Human Fossil Found

Javier — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:57:17 +0000

A small piece of jawbone unearthed in a cave in Spain is the oldest known fossil of a human ancestor in Europe and suggests that people lived on the continent much earlier than previously believed, scientists say. The researchers said the fossil...

Geologist Spots Oreodont Fossil in N.M.

AP — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:24:20 +0000

A geologic mapping project led to the finding of a 10 million-year-old fossil that’s now being studied at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science.Dave Love, a geologist with the New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources,...

Correction: Bat Fossil Story

AP — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 10:29:01 +0000

In a Feb. 13 story about a fossil of a previously unrecognized bat species, The Associated Press reported erroneously when the species lived. The bat species lived about 52 million years ago, not 25.5...

Smallest pterosaur fossil found in China

Rohit — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:42:19 +0000

A tiny pterosaur fossil was discovered in the western part of China’s Liaoning Province. It is currently the smallest of the species of flying pterosaurs ever found in the...

Bats Could Fly Before They Had 'Radar'

AP — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:52:26 +0000

A fossil found in Wyoming has apparently resolved a long-standing question about when bats gained their radar-like ability to navigate and locate airborne insects at night. The answer: after they started flying.The discovery revealed the most...