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Mar 27 2008, Javier

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 found...

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Jun 26 2008 by AP0 Comments

Scientists with the Virginia Museum of Natural History have confirmed the discovery of a 500 million-year-old fossil called a stromatolite.

 
 
Jun 2 2008 by AP0 Comments

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.

 
 
Apr 3 2008 by AP0 Comments

New evidence shows humans lived in North America more than 14,000 years ago, 1,000 years earlier than had previously been known.

 
 
Mar 10 2008 by AP0 Comments

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.

 
 
Feb 14 2008 by AP0 Comments

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 million.

 
 
Feb 13 2008 by AP0 Comments

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.

 
 
Sep 13 2007 by AP0 Comments

A federal agency’s decision not to renew a mining permit for a rock quarry near Las Cruces will better protect a repository of pre-dinosaur era fossil tracks.

 
 
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Dec 13 2007 by Arpita Mukherjee0 Comments

Discoveries that are more new have been made from the Jurassic world of giants. A postgraduate student of Bristol University discovered fossilized remains of new species of the giant carnivores. The bones and teeth of the dinosaurs had been dug 10...

 
 
Nov 21 2007 by Arpita Mukherjee0 Comments

The ancient world was ruled by enormous giants. Not only were there giant reptiles of the Jurassic age but the modern world tiny insects assumed giant heights as suggested by their fossilized remains. Recently, British scientists stumbled across a...

 
 
Nov 1 2007 by Srinidhi0 Comments

Dinosaurs which were the earth’s dominant inhabitants in the pre-historic era were wiped out suddenly. Scientists believe it could be due to some major changes in the earth’s climate, perhaps due to earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, meteoric impacts...

 
 
May 3 2007 by Sophia0 Comments

A team from the National Autonomous University of Mexico has found a 4.7 inch long world’s oldest lobster fossil.
Mexican scientists said that the creature was alive when the African continent was just breaking apart from the Americas some 120...

 
 
Apr 26 2007 by Nidhi Chauhan0 Comments

Fossil watches and famous designer Phillip Stark have come together to create cool and stylish watches and this Phillip Starck Cross Digi watch is the one example.

The cross design displays the time vertically and date and day horizontally. I...

 
 
Mar 21 2007 by Irani0 Comments

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Fossils of digger dinosaurs are discovered in Montana, US recently. These small dinosaurs used to burrow into the ground 95 million year old. These Montana dinosaurs are been seen by palaeontologists for the first time. They are...

 
 
Feb 20 2007 by Nishtha0 Comments

Watches have become mere fashion accessories. A majority of youngsters feel that a watch is more about fashion than function.

A survey conducted by investment bank Piper Jaffray & Co. shockingly revealed that around two-thirds of teenagers never...

 
 
Dec 13 2006 by Irani0 Comments

It was at least 70 million years earlier than ever thought, the mammals used to fly! It was therefore, sometimes at about the same time - or even earlier than birds that they took to the skies! This is suggested by a fossil uncovered in China, the...

 
 
Dec 5 2006 by Sophia0 Comments

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 sold to an...

 
 
Sep 29 2006 by Ashutosh0 Comments

Fossil, a USA based watch manufacturing company have launched a watch Fossil Caller ID style FX6001, that can show the incoming caller ID on its dial. It has a 96×16 pixel OLED display.

By incorporating Bluetooth wireless technology the watch will...

 
 
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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...
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