Did Upright Walking Start in Trees?
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WASHINGTON -- Maybe walking upright on two legs isn't such a defining human feature after all.
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About 2 million years ago, in  lowland tropical forests of what is now China, lived an  ancestor of the giant panda that was very similar to the famed  vegetarian bear except about half the size, scientists said.
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It turns out that whether a stroll is taken uphill or down, the cardiovascular system benefits, a finding that researchers predicted yesterday
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In the beginning the base line of water law in
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KÃHLUNGSBORN, Germany, June 6 â They lurked in the woods, fifty strong, wearing black hoods and bandannas, and wielding tree limbs. At a signal given by one of their number, they sprang forward and threw their debris across a road here, creating a barricade that brought traffic to a screeching halt.
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Every second week in October, The Start catches a leaf as it falls from a tree. It has happened in West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Florida and Ohio.
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The ability of early human ancestors to run long distances may have influenced the transition to today's body form, researchers report.
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WASHINGTON - A chimp-sized human ancestor walked upright 6 million years ago, far earlier than anyone had been able to show before, researchers report.
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By Doug Kreutz, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Sep. 24--You might sense something in the air as you walk along the banks of Madera Creek, treading here and there on yellow-brown leaves shed by sycamore trees.   Autumn.
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WASHINGTON - A human ancestor the size of a chimp walked upright six million years ago - about three million years earlier than Lucy, the famous bipedal hominid, researchers say.
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By Tony Henderson  Hitting the milestone age of 50 prompted Peter Facey to ponder a change in lifestyle.   Peter has always grown trees for a living and 20 years ago set up Trees Please, a commercial nursery in Corbridge in Northumberland.
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They were the first animals with backbones to walk on land. They witnessed the rise and fall of the dinosaurs and were present at the birth of a bipedal ape who went on to become
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By Doug Kreutz, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Feb. 25--Desert trails lead to "cactus forests" of grand saguaros. High mountain paths take us into evergreen forests of towering pines. Somewhere in between lie woodlands of another kind: pygmy forests.
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By Mike Keller, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Jun. 5--There's something alluring about the supertrees soon to find their way to the Coast's urban forest.
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A circular formation discovered in a wooded area next to a highway slated for widening is likely some sort of an earthen enclosure built by prehistoric Indians, Ball State University archaeologists say. Workers with the Delaware County Office of Geographic Information System found the earthen structure more than a year ago while studying contours on a large topographical map.
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By Millar, Heather  It seems like such a tall order: Proactively plan human activities so that they mesh with the natural environment. Try to approach nature as a system, even though we don't now, and may never, fully understand all of its' complexities.
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When did life begin? One evidential clue stems from the fossil records in Western Australia, although whether these layered sediments are biological or chemical has spawned a spirited debate. Oxford researcher, Nicola McLoughlin, describes some of the issues in contention.