Clues to Black Plagueâs Fury in 650-Year-Old Skeletons
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New findings suggest that the plague selectively took the already ill, while many of the otherwise healthy survived the infection.
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Scientists have used computer analysis to read evolution backward and reconstruct a large part of the genome of an 80-million-year-old mammal.
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Locust plagues may predate biblical times, but today scientists still struggle to fully understand and control the swarms that can bring famine to thousands.
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Scientists in Spain say that they have found a tooth from a human ancestor more than one million years old.
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The miniature people found to have lived on an Indonesian island until 13,000 years ago have shaken up views of the human past.
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Researchers employ modern technology in hopes of solving a dusty mystery: Was the famous Pharaoh murdered? The examination begins a process aimed at restoring and preserving the boy king's blackened remains.
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Prehistoric hunters may be off the hook in the latest twist of a prehistoric whodunit that tries to explain why bison populations sharply crashed thousands of years ago.
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Beginning about 700,000 years ago, ancient humans were driven off the British Isles seven times by the approach of cold weather, according to new archaeological evidence.
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Dr. C. Erec Stebbins talks about using a nearly 100-year-old investigative tool to identify the bacterial proteins that cause disease.
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An ancient skull from South Africa  and carved tools and ornaments from Russia paint a rare picture  of the time when modern humans migrated out of Africa to  colonize Europe, researchers reported on Thursday.
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Threat to humanity ignored, researchers warn Scientists have warned that plague, scourge of the medieval world, poses a "a growing but overlooked threat" as it spreads slowly into hitherto unaffected territories.â¦
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New analysis of bones from an infamous dinosaur long believed to have eaten its own young show that the animal may have been given an undeserved reputation.
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Though Alzheimerâs disease seems to suddenly strike in old age, scientists think it begins long before symptoms occur.
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Prehistoric humans were infected with a bug that causes stomach ulcers, a study has shown.
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A study of 7,000-year-old pig remains gives new insight into the migration of Middle Eastern people into Europe.
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A study of an ancient human pest - head lice â-uggests that the ancestors of today&#39;s American Indians may have met and fought with pre-humans long extinct elsewhere, scientists said on Tuesday.
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Scientists want to exhume the body of a British diplomat who died of Spanish flu during the 1919 pandemic in hopes of discovering clues to fight a possible future global outbreak sparked by the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus.