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Lab testing bone that may belong to Amelia Earhart
Fragments found on a deserted South Pacific island are undergoing DNA analysis, which may prove the aviator and her navigator crash-landed on a flat reef and lived as castaways, perhaps...
Roman-Era Statue Unearthed After Storm in Israel
Storm Rakes Over Archaeological Dig, Exposing 1,700-Year-Old Headless Marble Statue Found Buried in Sand by Resident
Pompeii collapses spark worry and outrage
POMPEII, Italy (Reuters) - Pompeii mayor Claudio D'Alessio does not want to go down in history linked with Pliny the Younger, the Roman who chronicled the destruction of the ancient...
Another ancient meal found in China
Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: Just weeks after Chinese archaeologists reported finding 2,500-year-old noodles, other researchers say they've unearthed a 2,400-year-old pot of soup.
Mystery bird: laughing dove, Streptopelia senegalensis
This cute little African mystery bird also can be found in Western AustraliaLaughing dove, Streptopelia senegalensis, also known as the little brown dove, photographed at Tarangire National Park, Tanzania, Africa. Image: Dan Logen,...
Best of Archaeology 2010: Nat Geo News's Ten Most Viewed
From Titanic to Noah's Ark—Nat Geo News's most viewed archaeology tales of 2010 told of vanishing treasures, rediscovered relics, and more.
Life and death (and sex and sewage) in a Roman town
Forget your preconceptions about the civilised, sparkling, white cityscapes of the ancient world: Real-life Pompeii was an altogether more sordid proposition, as Cambridge classicist Mary Beard is set to explain.
The day the algae died
The P-T mass extinction may have been instigated by populations of algae dying. According to one group of scientists, this die-off of large numbers of relatively simple life forms caused...
Remarkable Creatures: In a Single-Cell Predator, Clues to the Animal Kingdom’s Birth
Recent studies suggest that choanoflagellates are among the closest living single-celled relatives of animals.
Medicaid cuts: teeth pulled, transplant called off
(AP) -- In Illinois, a pharmacist closes his business because of late Medicaid payments. In Arizona, a young father's liver transplant is canceled because Medicaid suddenly won't pay for...
Pictures: Are These Prehistoric Game Boards?
See "enigmatic" semicircles that may be the earliest evidence of game-playing in Mexico and possibly North America.
Prehistoric Dice Boards Found—Oldest Games in Americas?
Indian casinos aren't exactly new to the game—people were playing dice in the New World as early as 5,000 years ago, research suggests.
Ancient Balloon-Headed Dolphin Found by Fishers
A 20-foot dolphin with a bulbous head roamed the North Sea 2.5 million years ago, a newfound fossil reveals.
Phallic-shaped rock discovered in Maryland
When Martin Kenny came across what looked like a phallic carving at a site where workers had been excavating to build a new barn, he didn't know what to make...
Thoreau’s study of birds at Waldon Pond aids BU biologists in climate change research
BOSTON -- Boston University biology professor Richard Primack, graduate student Elizabeth Ellwood, and recent graduate Michelle Talmadge completed an analysis of the changing arrival dates of...
Question Box brings world of information to villagers
Illiterate villagers in India and Uganda have flocked to have their questions answered on subjects ranging from farming to football.
Humans helped vultures colonise the Canary Islands
The Egyptian vulture population of the Canary Islands was established following the arrival of the first human settlers who brought livestock to the islands. A genetic comparison of Iberian and...
Oldest fossils found in Cordillera Betica mountain range
Spanish researchers have found fossils of Ordovician conodonts dating to between 446 and 444 million years ago for the first time in the western Mediterranean. The discovery of these very...
This is a man's world? Yes and no, says new book
"Man up!" is an emerging expression whose significance has become loaded in our society, according to Anthony Synnott, a professor at the Concordia University Department of Sociology and Anthropology. In...
Virus-like structure calls into question origin of diseases such as 'mad cow'
(PhysOrg.com) -- A Yale University researcher has found virus-like genetic material within samples of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and scrapie, a finding that challenges scientific consensus on the nature of these...
How Iapetus got its ridge
For centuries, people wondered how the leopard got its spots. The consensus is pretty solid that evolution played a major role. But it's only been five years since the...
Dinosaur predecessor unearthed in Texas
Paleontologists have unearthed a nearly complete fossil of a dimetrodon, a reptile-like predator that roamed the Permian landscape 287 million years ago.
Birdbooker Report 148
Compiled by an ardent bibliophile, this is a weekly report about nature, science and history books that have been newly published in North America and the UK.Books to the ceiling, Books to...
Mystery bird: American goldfinch, Spinus tristis
Potato chip! Potato chip! Potato chip!American goldfinch, Spinus tristis (formerly, Carduelis tristis and Astragalinus tristis), also known as the eastern goldfinch and wild canary, photographed in Boulder, Colorado, USA. Image: Alek O. Komarnitsky,...
Buried in Peru’s Desert, Fossils Draw Smugglers
Officials in Peru’s capital, Lima, say seizures of illegally collected fossils are climbing.
Why Frome is still cashing in on the Romans | Discover
Last April, a man who hated history at school unearthed the largest coin hoard ever found in Britain. But why had it been buried in a field in Somerset?Dave Crisp found treasure...
Ancient Tiger-Sized Predator Unearthed in Texas
Not quite a reptile, and not quite a mammal, think of the Texan as a very distant, very toothy cousin.
Phones are a feminist issue in Bangladesh
Dressed in a colourful sari, clutching boxes of herbal tea in one hand and a battered old Nokia mobile phone in the other, Monowara Talukder doesn't look like the average...