Scientists to save 5,000-year-old embrace
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VALDARO, Italy  - Italy won't split up its Stone Age "lovers".
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Paleontologists working in Ethiopia have discovered the remains of at least nine primitive human ancestors that are up to 4.5 million years old.
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Burning fossil fuels could postpone the next ice age by up to half a million years, researchers at a British university said Wednesday.
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Archeologists found a small container with a whitish medicinal or cosmetic cream made up of animal fat, starch and tin oxide. Researchers writing in the November edition of the British magazine Nature say
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An international team of scientists says it was at Gibraltar 28,000 years ago, some 2,000 years more recently than previously thought.
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Frozen in much the state it died some 37,500 years ago, a Siberian baby mammoth undergoing tests in Japan could finally explain why the beasts were driven to extinction Â and shed light on climate change, scientists said Friday.
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It may be freezing cold and covered in ice now but 70 million years ago the Arctic Ocean was as tepid as the Mediterranean.
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Modern humans appeared 50,000 years ago, but genetic drift and natural selection have recently remolded the human clay.
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In the continuing debate over the origin of the extinct âlittle peopleâ of Indonesia, a team of scientists says it has found evidence that these people were members of a distinct species.
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Chimpanzees and humans split from a common ancestor just 4 million years ago -- a much shorter time than current estimates of 5 million to 7 million years ago, according to a study published on Friday.
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Scientists reconstruct a sea spider from the faint imprint it left when it fossilised 425 million years ago.
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A group of researchers has re-created with remarkable accuracy part of the genome of the common ancestor of all placental mammals, a small shrew-like creature that prowled the forests of what is now Asia more than 80 million years ago.
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MODERN human beings may have wiped out two species of our closest relatives 25,000 years ago, possibly deliberately. The new research, by scientists at the University of Utah, raises the possibility that we
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Australian scientists say they have discovered the world's oldest preserved vertebrate tissue - two morsel-size pieces of muscle from an ancient fossil fish.
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These sesame seed sized creatures carry a record of hundreds of millions of years of geological history.
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An ancient version of global warming may have been to blame for the greatest mass extinction in Earth's history.
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On a remote Indonesian island, archeologists were astonished to discover a new, small human species that walked the earth just 18,000 years ago. By Kristen Philipkoski.