Headless skeletons hold Pacific colonization key
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A 3,000-year-old burial site in Vanuatu containing 60 headless skeletons and skulls in pots is helping end the mystery over colonization of the Pacific and the first Polynesians, archaeologists said on Tuesday.
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MANILA, Philippines - A French-led marine expedition team believes it has discovered thousands of new species of mollusks and crustaceans around a Philippine island, officials and scientists said Monday.
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DENVER: In an astonishing discovery that could rewrite the history of human evolution, scientists say they have found the skeleton of a new human species - a dwarf, marooned for eons in a tropical lost world, while modern man rapidly colonised the rest
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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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The discovery of remains of a tiny human closely related to man on the remote Indonesian island of Flores and tales of Hobbit-like creatures who still roam its jungles have triggered an influx of visitors in search of a fabled lost world.
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Scientists from the  United States and Argentina have recovered the fossil skeleton  of a young plesiosaur -- a marine reptile that lived some 70  million years ago -- in Antarctica, institutes from both  countries said on Monday.
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A team of scientists says it has found evidence in three wrist bones that an extinct group of people were members of a distinct species.
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Scientists have discovered a tiny species of ancient human that lived 18,000 years ago on an isolated island east of the Java Sea -- a prehistoric hunter in a &quot;lost world&quot; of giant lizards and miniature elephants.
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A new study of the skeleton of a one-meter-high race of âhobbitsâ that lived 12,000 years ago in Indonesia shows that they were a species of humanâand that the evolutionary path to Homo sapiens has been torturous indeed.
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In an astonishing discovery that could rewrite the history of human evolution, scientists say they have found the skeleton of a new human species, a dwarf, marooned for eons in a tropical
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In the 18th and 19th centuries, European explorers brought back home gold cloaks of Polynesian chiefs, feather &quot;god heads&quot; and wood temple figures from the islands of the eastern Pacific.
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Smithsonian scientists have discovered a biodiversity bounty in the Eastern Pacific -- approximately 50 percent of the organisms found in some groups are new to science. The research team spent 11 days in the Eastern Pacific, a unique, understudied region off the coast of Panama.
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A new study of the phylogeny of human head and body lice provides evidence that Homo sapiens once made direct physical contact with a more archaic lineage.
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An international expedition has found more than 1,200 varieties of crustaceans and at least 4,000 types of mollusks near a small Philippine island.
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Even without mouths or guts, the worms of the genus Osedax feast on the bones of âwhalefalls,â carcasses on the seafloor.
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SYDNEY - The discovery of a skeleton of a female barely one metre tall who hunted pygmy elephants and giant rats 18000 years ago could force a reassessment of the origins of humanity, scientists in Australia said yesterday.
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Several crabs, shrimp, sea stars, and other marine species had likely never been seen until scientists went exploring in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands this fall.