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AMS shows modern humans and Neanderthals overlapped

December 11, 2014
Strong evidence that Neanderthals overlapped with modern humans for up to 5,400 years has been revealed using an improved accelerator mass spectrometry technique.Researchers from the University of Oxford dated over...

Mary Rose dog male, not female

November 20, 2014
The smallest member of the crew on board the Mary Rose – a dog named Hatch – was a he and not a she as previously believed. Hatch was discovered...

New finding challenges belief birds evolved from dinosaurs

July 17, 2014
A sparrow-sized fossil from China challenges the commonly held belief that birds evolved from ground-dwelling theropod dinosaurs that developed the ability to fly. Instead, the fossil – a Scansoriopteryx -...

Fossil find could shed light on Neanderthal – human interbreeding

July 1, 2014
A collection of human fossils feared lost has been found and could shed light on whether Neanderthals and modern humans met and interbred. The fossils – from a collection once...

Deep sea root of marine evolution sparks controversy

June 11, 2014
The deep ocean may have played a much bigger role in protecting marine diversity than first thought suggests controversial new research from the University of Portsmouth. Fossils of starfish, sea...

Dino weigh-in sheds light on evolution

May 14, 2014
Rapidly shrinking body sizes allowed feathered dinosaurs to exploit ecological niches throughout their evolution and become hugely successful suggests research led by the University of Oxford. An international team –...

Acid rain plays role in Great Dying

November 29, 2013
Rain as acidic as undiluted lemon juice could have contributed to the Great Dying, a severe mass extinction event nearly 252 million years ago.The cause of the massive extinction at...

Evolutionary grains of sand

September 6, 2013
Evolutionary ecologists are using “grains of sand” to understand more about evolutionary processes.Dr Thomas Ezard from the University of Southampton is studying the fossils of microscopic aquatic creatures called planktonic...

X-rays reveal ‘dinobird’ shook patterned tail feather

July 10, 2013
Using X-rays to complete the first chemical analysis of feathers from a fossil linking dinosaurs and birds reveals that the feathers were patterned rather than all black as was previously...

Hunter-gatherers had a taste for fish

May 20, 2013
The first study to directly address the often posed question, “why did humans make pots?” reveals that the earliest use of ceramic vessels was for cooking fish.Researchers carried out the...

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