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Scientists Unravel Mummy Mystery
A bundle bearing a mummy has been found in Peru's historic Huaura Valley.
Eruptions wiped out ocean life 94 million years ago
University of Alberta scientists contend they have the answer to mass extinction of animals and plants 93 million years ago. The answer, research has uncovered, has been found at the...
Big Brains Arose Separately in Multiple Primate Groups
The trend toward larger brains relative to body size developed independently in isolated groups of primates, according to a new fossil analysis.
WEEK IN PHOTOS: White Lions, Popemobile, More
The end of the "running of the bulls" festival, a peek at the opening ceremony of the Olympics, and the pope's visit to Australia are among this week's highlights.
Web networking photos come back to bite defendants
(AP) -- Two weeks after Joshua Lipton was charged in a drunken driving crash that seriously injured a woman, the 20-year-old college junior attended a Halloween party dressed as...
Ancient Pompeii site faces modern threats
How A Simple Mathematic Formula Is Starting To Explain The Bizarre Prevalence Of Altruism In Society
Why do humans cooperate in things as diverse as environment conservation or the creation of fairer societies, even when they don't receive anything in exchange or, worst, they might even...
Canal fossils give clue to formation of Americas
PANAMA CITY (Reuters) - Scientists in Panama have unearthed hundreds of animal fossils dating back 20 million years, which could shed more light on how and when the American continent...
Tiny bug threatens California citrus industry
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) -- Border agents have stepped up searches and hundreds of traps have been placed on the California-Mexico line in an aggressive campaign to...
VIDEO: Unusual Mummy Found in Peru
His eyes covered with metal plates, a thousand-year-old elite mummy has been found surrounded by unfamiliar artifacts—shedding light on a mysterious culture.
Peter Singer: Of great apes and men
Peter Singer: As Spain takes one great step forward for animal rights and liberty, activists elsewhere are persecuted
Bigger is better, until you go extinct
It's not easy being small, and it turns out for mammals there are more evolutionary pros than cons to being big, with species tending to develop larger body sizes over...
Relocate species endangered by climate change, scientists suggest
Consider it the modern equivalent of Noah's Ark: scientists say policy-makers should consider moving species outside their historic ranges to prevent extinction caused by climate change.
Professor talks about latest in Younger Dryas work in Science article
University of Cincinnati Professor of Geology Tom Lowell is featured in the July 18 issue of Science, discussing the latest research into the question of whether the significant climate change...
Speech clues from grunting fish
A grunting fish helps scientists to date the origins of speech to about 400 million years ago.
Galapagos invaders go native
Plant fossils prove that species' presence predated humans' arrival
New roadside beautification concept studied
Travel America's highways or drive down any city street this summer and you'll probably see them. From small, manicured beds of flowers maintained by community volunteers to extensive landscaping projects...
Eczema outbreak tied to Chinese furniture
MALMO, Sweden, July 17 (UPI) -- A fungicide used to prevent mold may be the cause of several thousand cases of aggravated eczema in northern Europe, Swedish researchers...
First Humans To Settle Americas Came From Europe, Not From Asia Over Bering Strait Land-ice Bridge, New Research Suggests
New research by a geography professor and his students on the creation of Kankakee Sand Islands of Northwest Indiana is lending support to evidence that the first humans to settle...
Caribbean volcanoes implicated in Cretaceous killing spree
Osmium isotopes prove origins of mass-extinction event
Probing Question: Fishhooks of addiction
When the American writer Theodore Roethke taught at Penn State from 1936 to 1943, he was known for three things: being a good poet, coaching the men`s tennis team, and...
Cathedral dig yields finds from 1700s New Orleans
(AP) -- The first archaeological dig at one of the nation's oldest cathedrals has turned up a mix of new finds in the heart of the French Quarter. Discoveries...
VIDEO: Sand Swallowing China City
The "singing" sands of Dunhuang are no longer music to the ears of city residents, who face disappearing rivers, buried farms, dust-choked homes, and other ills.
Undersea Volcanic Eruptions Linked to Ancient Die-Off
Explosions of magma about 93 million years ago sapped the oceans of oxygen, causing a mass extinction of marine life, a new study found.
Noted anthropologist William Sanders dies
STATE COLLEGE, Pa., July 16 (UPI) -- Anthropologist William Sanders, best known for a landmark survey of central Mexican sites in the 1970s, has died in State College,...
Democracies with separation of powers less likely to stop using torture
A system of checks and balances in government is usually regarded as a good thing, except when it comes to the probability that a nation will stop its use of...
Archaeologists trace early irrigation farming in ancient Yemen
In the remote desert highlands of southern Yemen, a team of archaeologists have discovered new evidence of ancient transitions from hunting and herding to irrigation agriculture 5,200 years ago.
Death in the deep: Volcanoes blamed for mass extinction
Ninety-three million years ago, Earth was a reshuffled jigsaw of continents, a hothouse where the average temperature was nearly twice that of today.