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Jul 20, 2007 6:03 AM CDT

Dinos Coexisted With Precursors

Pre-dinos coexisted with dinosaurs for 20 million years, dig finds

(Newser) - Fossils newly discovered in New Mexico are challenging the theory that early dinosaurs quickly drove their reptilian predecessors into extinction. The bones, 215 million years old, indicate that these pre-dinosaurs lived alongside their more evolved relatives—which were merely the size of dogs—for up to 20 million years longer...

Chinese Make Dino Soup

Jul 4, 2007 7:48 AM CDT

Chinese Make Dino Soup

(Newser) - Chinese villagers in Henan province dug up a ton of fossilized dinosaur bones, using them to make traditional medicines, including soup and poultices. The villagers, not entirely inaccurately, believed that they were ‘dragon bones’ from flying dragons. Once they learned of their value to paleontologists, the villagers donated the...

Oldest European Human Fossil Discovered

Jun 30, 2007 10:51 AM CDT

Oldest European Human Fossil Discovered

Million-year-old human tooth found in Spain

(Newser) - A million-year-old tooth belonging to a distant human ancestor has been unearthed in northern Spain, the BBC reports. Scientists touted the pre-molar as western Europe’s “oldest human fossil remain” by more than 200,000 years. The tooth was found Wednesday at the Atapuerca site, where caves have already...

Giant Penguin Fossils Found in Peruvian Desert

Jun 26, 2007 4:54 AM CDT

Giant Penguin Fossils Found in Peruvian Desert

Spearfishing birds waddled the earth 36 million years ago

(Newser) - Penguins haven't always lived on ice, scientists have concluded after unearthing fossils of giant penguins in Peru's Atacama desert. The penguins, nearly human-sized at 4.5 feet tall, had extraordinarily long beaks apparently used for spearfishing, and waddled the earth some 36 million years ago, the National Geographic News reports....

Fossil Proves
We're All African

Mar 14, 2007 7:04 AM CDT

Fossil Proves We're All African

Moroccan find sets human origins back 100,000 years

(Newser) - An ancient jawbone found in Morocco suggests that modern human ancestry emerged 100,000 years earlier than previously believed—and in Africa, rather than Europe. Until now, scientists believed that modern humans didn't emerge until 20,000 to 30,000 years ago. But the Moroccan bone is 160,000 years...