Aussie scientists see âpalaeontology gold rushâ
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Australian scientists predicted a &quot;palaeontological gold rush&quot; after the discovery of a new species of tiny human in neighbouring Indonesia in a find that will re-draw the human family tree.
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CANBERRA, Australia  - Australians on Sunday commemorated the efforts of a British explorer whose tenacity prevented their country being named New Holland or Terra Australis.
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DNA is aiding fossil hunters in the search for human origins by approaching the search for human origins from a different angle.
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The warming Arctic is again making news, with a heap of findings unveiled at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco.
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Australia's multi-billion dollar uranium industry is gearing up for expansion amid signs the Labor Party could drop its 22-year-old ban on new mines.
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Locked away in fossils is evidence of a sudden solar cooling. Kate Ravilious meets the experts who say it could explain a 3,000-year-old mass migration - and today&#39;s global warming.
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Geologists unveiled a fossil discovery on Tuesday they believe will help resolve a long-standing mystery over whether dinosaurs ever roamed to what is now Canada's Pacific coast.
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By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID Associated Press  Scientists discover exotic creatures more mysterious than most can imagine.   WASHINGTON -- Peering deep into the sea, scientists are finding creatures more mysterious than many could have imagined.
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Australian scientists have used two recently discovered genes from an ancient wheat variety to develop a new way to breed salt-tolerant wheat.
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A FORTNIGHT ago University of Wollongong scientist Bert Roberts was on the Indonesian island of Flores with stegodon expert Gert van den Bergh.
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An unprecedented treasure trove of marine reptile fossils is found in the Arctic by Norwegian scientists.
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The discovery of fossils from a race of ancient, hobbit-like human ancestors on the Indonesian island of Flores earlier this year has triggered a small tourism boom, island officials say.
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Scientists try to figure out how far off the next ice age is.
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Philip Durell takes a look at three gold mines for value investors.
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Now a new study, published tomorrow in the science journal Nature, suggests that another striking mammal, the Irish elk, likewise lived way beyond the last ice age.
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MOLE CREEK, Australia -- For years, Trudy Richards searched the forests of Tasmania for the elusive creature with the head of a wolf, the pouch of a kangaroo, and the stripes of a tiger.
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Scientists in Australia have found a new  species of hobbit-sized humans who lived about 18,000 years ago  on an Indonesian island in a discovery that adds another piece  to the complex puzzle of human evolution.