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Ancient Birds Jabbed at Prey with Axelike Beaks
New Study Reveals 90-Pound Birds once Lived in South America Which Wielded their Giant, Sharp Beaks in Quick Jabs
Age confirmed for 'Eve,' mother of all humans
A maternal ancestor to all living humans called mitochondrial Eve likely lived about 200,000 years ago, at roughly the same time anatomically modern humans are believed to have emerged, a...
Moon shrinking with age
The moon may be shrinking. Not to worry though, lovers and crooners, it won't be disappearing any time soon.
Stores remove recalled eggs from shelves
The eggs, from a major producer in Iowa, have been linked to a salmonella outbreak that has left hundreds of people across the U.S. sick, including as many as 266...
Our ever-changing English | Alison Flood
I get grumpy about crimes against language. But we Brits have been lamenting declining standards of English for centuriesPerhaps the Daily Mail should take a leaf out of Jonathan Swift's book and instead...
Cultured Chimps Invent and Share Back-Scratching Tool
A chimp with paralyzed hands innovates a back-scratching method similar to a human rubbing a towel across their back.
New fossils could be oldest animals
PRINCETON, N.J., Aug. 18 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers say they found what may be the oldest fossils of fully developed animal bodies, pushing evidence of animal life into an...
Evidence of 'zombie' parasite in fossil
EXETER, England, Aug. 18 (UPI) -- Parasites that control their hosts and turn them into "zombies" may have learned their macabre trick almost 50 million years ago, U.K. researchers...
Humans said innocent in mammoth extinction
DURHAM, England, Aug. 18 (UPI) -- The disappearance of ancient grasslands, not human hunting, may have led to the extinction of animals such as the woolly mammoth, U.K. researchers...
Can anthropology solve an economic crisis?
The field of anthropology is often associated with finding lost tribes, understanding ancient civilizations, and the study of indigenous peoples. However, researchers in Norway argue that anthropology has much more...
Women stay in fringes of most popular comic strips, study finds
The portrayal of women in comic strips is no laughing matter, according to a new University of Florida study, which finds that females are rarely the jokester and often not...
Georgia archaeologists find Confederate POW camp
Preserved for nearly 150 years, perhaps by its own obscurity, a short-lived Confederate prison camp began yielding treasures from the Civil War almost as soon as archeologists began searching for...
What happened to the seals?
Dozens of dead seals have washed up in Scotland with strange spiral wounds. What could be the culprit?It's a mammalian mystery that would baffle even Sherlock Holmes: the unexplained deaths of dozens of...
Creation Museum Creates Discomfort For Some Visitors
Kentucky's Creation Museum makes some visitors uncomfortable with depictions of Adam and Eve, humans and dinosaurs coexisting and Noah building his Ark.
Secrets of a vanished English landscape: Geologists examine 5,000-year-old 'fossilized' landscape
A team of scientists in the UK has published new research on a fossilized landscape, providing insights into how an ancient environment functioned.
PlayStation 3 memory beefed up in North America
Sony Computer Entertainment America announced Tuesday it is beefing up the storage capacity of PlayStation 3 (PS3) videogame consoles that will be available in North America.
Perforated blobs may be early sponges
Australian find could be oldest fossil evidence of multicellular animals
S.Korea archaeologists uncover 7,000-year-old oar
South Korean archaeologists said Tuesday they have unearthed a rare neolithic period wooden boat oar, believed to date back about 7,000 years but still in good condition.
Spinal gap of barbeled dragonfishes mystery solved
(PhysOrg.com) -- The mystery of why a group of deep sea fishes has a gap between their skull and spine has been solved by an international team of scientists,...
New Public Road to Split the Serengeti?
The proposed road in Tanzania would cut through the Serengeti, possibly disrupting the annual wildebeest migration, conservationists say. ...
Richard Darwin Keynes obituary
Physiologist and author of several books on Charles Darwin, his great-grandfatherRichard Darwin Keynes, who has died aged 90, was a great-grandson of Charles Darwin and the nephew of John Maynard Keynes. Richard rose...
Kihansi spray toads make historic return to Tanzania
In a bold effort to save one of the world's rarest amphibians from extinction, one hundred Kihansi spray toads have been flown home to Tanzania after being painstakingly reared at...
Uruguay goes regional with deep sea port plans for Rocha
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Aug. 17 (UPI) -- Uruguay is cobbling together a regional partnership around its planned deep sea port as part of President Jose Mujica's strategy to raise at...
Ancient temple complex discovered near Le Mans
Enormous religious site in French countryside may have been devoted to worshipping many godsExcavations near the antique city of Vindunum (now Le Mans) have revealed a vast religious site dating from the first...
How business should learn from animals
Author Peter Miller discussed with Katty Kay his findings on the subject of the science of 'swarming' and its links between the animal kingdom and humans.
San Cristóbal De Rapaz Journal: High in the Andes, Guardians of an Inca Mystery
The village of San Cristóbal de Rapaz has one of the last known collections of khipus — strands of knotted cords that may explain how the Incas ruled without a...
New evidence in Mount Everest mystery
LONDON, Aug. 16 (UPI) -- Canadian researchers say they believe they've settled a historic controversy about the first men to conquer the summit of Mount Everest in the Himalayas. ...
U-M researchers part of team that discovered rare gold coin in Israel
Sharon Herbert and her team were wrapping up their dig at the Tel Kedesh site in Israel, sweeping the site in the 140-degree heat, when a student showed University of...