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Published Mummified parrots point to trade in the ancient Atacama desert - Mummified Parrots Reveal Ancient Trade in the Atacama Desert
(via sciencedaily.com) Ancient Egyptians mummified cats, dogs, ibises and other animals, but closer to home in the South Am...
Published Fleshing out the bones of Quetzalcoatlus, Earth's largest flier ever - Fleshing out the Bones of Quetzalcoatlus, Earth's Largest Flier Ever
(via sciencedaily.com) Though discovered more than 45 years ago, fossils of Earth's largest flying animal, Quetzalcoatlus,...
Published Parental investment may have aided evolution of larger brains - Parental Investment May Have Aided Evolution of Larger Brains
(via sciencedaily.com) A review of evidence from prior research provides new support for the possibility that the evolution...
Published RNA for the first time recovered from an extinct species
(via sciencedaily.com) Original source A new study shows the isolation and sequencing of more than a century-old RNA molecules from a Tasma...
Published Survival of the newest: the mammals that survive mass extinctions aren't as 'boring' as scientists thought
(via sciencedaily.com) Original source For decades, scientists have assumed that mammals and their relatives that survived challenging time...
Published Woolly mammoth movements tied to earliest Alaska hunting camps
(via sciencedaily.com) Original source Researchers have linked the travels of a 14,000-year-old woolly mammoth with the oldest known human...
Published How did humans learn to walk? New evolutionary study offers an earful
(via sciencedaily.com) Original source A new study, which centers on evidence from skulls of a 6-million-year-old fossil ape, Lufengpithecu...
Published Panama Canal expansion rewrites history of world's most ecologically diverse bats
(via sciencedaily.com) Original source In a new study, paleontologists describe the oldest-known leaf-nosed bat fossils, which were found a...
Published To kill mammoths in the Ice Age, people used planted pikes, not throwing spears, researchers say
(via sciencedaily.com) Original source Archeologists say new findings might help resolve the debate about Clovis points and reshape how we...
Published Last surviving woolly mammoths were inbred but not doomed to extinction
(via sciencedaily.com) Original source The last population of woolly mammoths was isolated on Wrangel Island off the coast of Siberia 10,00...
Published Gradual evolution is back: Darwinian theory of gradual process explained in new research - Gradual Evolution is Back: Darwinian Theory of Gradual Process Explained in New Research
(via sciencedaily.com) Abrupt shifts in the evolution of animals -- short periods of time when an organism rapidly changes...
Published New dinosaur showed descendants how to dress to impress - New Dinosaur Showed Descendants How to Dress to Impress
(via sciencedaily.com) Scientists have found the most elaborately dressed-to-impress dinosaur ever described and say it she...
Published Dinosaurs were the first to take the perspectives of others - Dinosaurs: The First to Take the Perspectives of Others
(via sciencedaily.com) Original source Understanding that others hold different viewpoints from your own is essential for human sociality....
Published Primates’ ancestors may have left trees to survive asteroid - Primates’ Ancestors May Have Left Trees to Survive Asteroid
(via sciencedaily.com) When an asteroid struck 66 million years ago and wiped out dinosaurs not related to birds and three- ...
Published Unusual sex chromosomes of platypus, emu and pekin duck - Unusual Sex Chromosomes of Platypus, Emu, and Pekin Duck
(via sciencedaily.com) Three studies uncovered the unusual sex chromosomes of platypus, emu and Pekin duck. Platypus have f...
Published Dinosaurs were on the up before asteroid downfall - Dinosaurs were on the Up Before Asteroid Downfall
(via sciencedaily.com) Dinosaurs dominated the world right up until a deadly asteroid hit the earth, leading to their mass...
Published Researchers uncover 92 fossil nests belonging to some of India's largest dinosaurs - Researchers Uncover 92 Fossil Nests Belonging to Some of India's Largest Dinosaurs
(via sciencedaily.com) The discovery of more than 250 fossilized eggs reveals intimate details about the lives of titanosau...
Published The other paleo diet: Rare discovery of dinosaur remains preserved with its last meal - The Other Paleo Diet: Rare Discovery of Dinosaur Remains Preserved with Its Last Meal
(via sciencedaily.com) Microraptor was an opportunistic predator, feeding on fish, birds, lizards -- and now small mammals. ...
Published Exquisitely preserved embryo found inside fossilized dinosaur egg - Exquisitely Preserved Embryo Found Inside Fossilized Dinosaur Egg
(via sciencedaily.com) A 72 to 66-million-year-old embryo found inside a fossilized dinosaur egg sheds new light on the lin...
Published First ever 3D reconstruction of 52,000-year-old woolly mammoth chromosomes thanks to serendipitously freeze-dried skin
(via sciencedaily.com) Original source An international research team has assembled the genome and 3D chromosomal structures of a 52,000-ye...