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Late-Neoproterozoic Deep-Ocean Oxygenation and the Rise of Animal Life . 2006. D. E. Canfield et al., Science, published on-line December 7,...

U-Pb Isotopic Age of the StW 573 Hominid from Sterkfontein, South Africa . 2006. J. Walker et al. Science 314: 1592 – 1594. Ancient remains...

Struggling for survival, Neandertals turned to cannibalism—even brain-eating—some 43,000 years ago, says a new study of mutilated bones disc...

From Live Science.com (via The Skeptical Inquirer and The Daily Telegraph): Famed paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey is giving no quarter t...

Scientists have shown that in a certain group of insects, sex-differences in appearance are not the product of growing structures in a sex-s...

In 1933 the Sinclair Refining Company sponsored a dinosaur exhibit at the Chicago World’s Fair at was seen by over 16 million people. At t...

Organic Globules in the Tagish Lake Meteorite: Remnants of the Protosolar Disk . 2006. K. Nakamura-Messenger et al. Science 314: 1439-142. H...

From ABC.news Huge chunks of amber containing the remnants of ancient rainforests have been found along beaches in Far North Queensland, the...

From the Helena Independent Record : Put on display for the first time Thursday were the femur of the raptor, dromaeosaur, the teeth of a sa...

Pleistocene rewilding: an optimistic agenda for 21st century conservation . 2006. C. J. Donlan et al. The American Naturalist 168: 660–681. ...

Impact and extinction in remarkably complete Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary sections from Demerara Rise, tropical western North Atlantic . 200...

Petrology and thermal structure of the Hawaiian plume from Mauna Kea volcano . 2006. C. Herzberg. Nature 444: 605-609. Science offers new ev...

A re-analysis of the marine bird Asiahesperornis from northern Kazakhstan . 2006. G. J. Dyke et al. Cretaceous Research 27: 947-953. Abstra...

Drought-stricken Australia should heed a warning from a new study that shows a series of massive droughts killed giant kangaroos and other ...

KFVS has a short article on the dinosaur material being collected in Missouri. Thanks to Chad for this. As you can see from the above phot...

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Abundance Distributions Imply Elevated Complexity of Post-Paleozoic Marine Ecosystems . 2006. P. J. Wagner et al. Science 314: 1289 – 1292. ...

Long time field volunteer with the Southern Alberta Dinosaur Research Group , Bill McPheeters, sent along this photo from an ice and snow sc...

image link From Today In Science History : In 1859, The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection was published in England to great ac...

Soft tissue and cellular preservation in vertebrate skeletal elements from the Cretaceous to the present . 2006. M. Schweitzer et al. Procee...