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LATEST NEWS

• Burmese Fossil Indicates Apes Arose in Asia, Not Africa
• Orangutans, Not Chimps, May Be Our Closest Relatives
• Do Dinosaurs Still Exist?
• Chinese Volcanoes May Have Caused Ancient Mass Extinction
• Scientist Paid $750,000 for 'Missing Link' Primate Fossil
• Long-Necked Dinosaurs Stood Up Straight, Says Study
• Ancient Microbes Found in 100-Million-Year-Old Termite
• Life on Earth May Have Started Even Earlier Than Thought
• Scientists: 'Missing Link' Fossil Not Worth Media Hype
• Unveiled 'Holy Grail' Fossil Gets Celebrity Treatment
• Tiny Shrew Shot Venom Through Blood-Red Teeth
• Ancient Primate Could Be Distant Ancestor of Humans
• Scientist: Cannibal Humans Ate Neanderthals Into Extinction
• Strange 'Hobbit' Feet May Change Human Prehistory
• New Evidence Suggests Some Dinosaurs Survived for Half a Million Years After Asteroid Impact

ANTHROPOLOGY & HUMAN ANCESTORS

• Ancient Primate Could Be Distant Ancestor of Humans
• Unveiled 'Holy Grail' Fossil Gets Celebrity Treatment
• Scientist: Cannibal Humans Ate Neanderthals Into Extinction
• Strange 'Hobbit' Feet May Change Human Prehistory
• Childbirth Was Painful for Neanderthal Women, Too
• Genes Show Neanderthals Split Into Different Races
• 'Hobbit' Skeleton Replica Headed for Long Island
• Ancient 'Peking Man' Way Older Than Thought
• 1.5 Million-Year-Old Human Footprints Found
• 13,000-Year-Old Tools Used by Clovis People Found at Colorado Home
• Researchers Finish First Draft of Neanderthal Genome
• Famed 'Lucy' Skeleton Undergoes CT Scan
• Comet Impact May Have Wiped Out Mammoths, Indians
• Heat Sensors to Locate Lost Tribes in Amazon
• Discovery of Fire Pushed Back 500,000 Years

APES AND MONKEYS

• Burmese Fossil Indicates Apes Arose in Asia, Not Africa
• Orangutans, Not Chimps, May Be Our Closest Relatives
• Scientist Paid $750,000 for 'Missing Link' Primate Fossil
• Scientists: 'Missing Link' Fossil Not Worth Media Hype
• Ancient Primate Could Be Distant Ancestor of Humans
• Monkeys Do Math Almost as Well as Humans
• Study Reveals Why Monkeys Shout During Sex
• Monkeys Get Upset Over Unfair Treatment
• Study: Flying Lemurs Closer to Primates Than Tree Shrews
• Study: Chimps as Irrationally Possessive as Humans
• Study: Orangutans Play Charades to Communicate
• Study: Walking on Two Legs Easier Than Walking on Four
• Selfless Chimps Shed Light on Evolution of Altruism
• Chimpanzees Transmit Culture As Humans Do
• Study: Chimps Are More Evolved Than Humans

BIRDS

• Rare Fossilized Giant Sea Bird Skull Discovered in Peru
• Birds May Have Used Brainpower to Survive Mass Extinction
• Giant Prehistoric Bird Needed Updrafts to Stay Aloft
• Giant Penguins Once Roamed South America
• Study: Birds Got Short Genomes From Dinosaurs
• Huge, Terrifying Carnivorous Bird Invaded North America Long Ago
• Big Birds Reveal How Dinosaurs Walked
• Archaeopteryx May Have Had Four Wings, Not Two
• New Species of Bird Found in Remote Northeastern India
• Real-Time Evolution Seen Among Darwin's Galapagos Finches
• Experts: Missing Link in Bird Evolution Found
• Fossilized Claw May Reinforce Bird-Dinosaur Link
• Dinosaur Discovered in Utah Resembled Turkey
• 'Naked' Dinosaur Fossil Raises Questions About Feathers
• Mutant Chickens Grow Full Set of Teeth

DINOSAURS

• Do Dinosaurs Still Exist?
• Long-Necked Dinosaurs Stood Up Straight, Says Study
• New Evidence Suggests Some Dinosaurs Survived for Half a Million Years After Asteroid Impact
• Digital Paleontology Reveals Dinosaur Details
• Gang of Juvenile Dinosaurs Discovered
• Famed Fossil Hunter to Plead Guilty to Dinosaur Crimes
• Funny Fuzzy Dinosaur May Rewrite Science Textbooks
• 'Vicious Chicken' Nipped at Legs of Bigger Dinosaurs
• China Displays Aftermath of Dinosaur Disaster
• Texas May Replace Official State Dinosaur
• Triceratops Used Its Giant Horns in Battle
• Ancient Dinosaur Wore Primitive Down Coat
• Mystery of Dinosaur-Era Flight: How Did They Lift Off?
• Treasure Trove of Dinosaur Fossils Found in China
• Daddy Dinosaurs May Have Tended Developing Eggs

EVOLUTION CONTROVERSIES

• Creation Museum: Darwin Not Entirely Wrong
• Islamic Creationist Stirs New Kind of Darwinian Struggle
• Creationists Blast Vatican for Not Inviting Them to Evolution Conference
• Scientists Ask: What Would Darwin Do?
• Darwin's Birthday Poll: Fewer Than 4 in 10 Believe in Evolution
• 'Missing Links' Reveal Truth About Evolution
• Darwin's Kin, Admirers, Opponents Mark 200th Birthday
• Vatican to Discuss, but Not Endorse, Intelligent Design
• Secular Group Puts Up 'Praise Darwin' Billboards
• Comedian Ben Stein Cancels Speech Over Evolution Controversy
• Muslim Scientists Prepare for Battle With Creationists
• God and Evolution Can Co-Exist, Scientist Insists
• Creation Museum Draws Half a Million Visitors
• Vatican Official Defends Evolution Against 'Useless' Creationism
• U.K. Scientist Quits Over Creationism Comments

EVOLUTION IN GENERAL

• Chinese Volcanoes May Have Caused Ancient Mass Extinction
• Oldest Footprints on Earth Possibly Found
• Most Primitive Four-Legged Fossil Found in Latvia
• Real or Fake? The Frightening Creatures of '10,000 BC'
• Asteroid Impacts May Have Boosted Evolution
• Something Very Fishy Found About Human Fingers
• New Fossils Support Deep-Sea Origin-of-Life Theory
• Earth's Worst Extinction May Have Been Drawn-Out Event
• Origins of Human Nervous System Found in Sea Sponges
• Snowball Fight Erupts Over Frozen-Earth Theory
• Robot Salamander Reveals How Fish First Crawled Ashore
• Missing Link Found in Ancient Embryos
• Galactic 'Baby Boom' May Have Affected Early Life on Earth
• Greatest Mass Extinction Gave Oceans a Face Lift
• Robot Tadpole Sex Sheds Light on Vertebrate Evolution

FISH

• Oldest Known Fossilized Brain Found in Kansas
• Scientists Find First Animal That Had Sex
• Primitive Fingers Found in Prehistoric Fish
• Ancient Shark's Bite Was More Powerful Than T. Rex's
• Fossils Show Earliest Record of Sex, Live Birth
• Fossilized Food Chain Found in German Museum
• 'Living Fossil' Not So Primitive After All
• Scientists: 400 Million-Year-Old Fish Had Incredibly Powerful Bite
• Primitive Fish Skeleton May Link Land, Sea
• Study: Shark Fins, Human Arms Formed by Same Genes
• Fish Cross 'Impassable Barrier' to Traverse Pacific Ocean
• Fickle Females Force Male Fish to Be Flashy
• Common Ancestor of Fish and Land Animals Found
• Some Catfish Easily Hunt on Land
• Arctic Fossil Bridges Gap Between Fish, Land Animals

INSECTS, ARACHNIDS & OTHER ARTHROPODS

• Giant Bug Terrorized Ancient Seas
• Oldest Spider Web Found in Dinosaur-Age Amber
• Oldest Full-Body Insect Fossil Found
• Ancient Vegetation, Insect Fossils Found in Antarctica
• Ancient Horseshoe Crabs Get Even Older
• Scientists: Biting Insects May Have Killed Off Dinosaurs
• Scientists Uncover Fossil of Biggest Bug Ever at 8 Feet Long
• Legless Crab Slithered Across Jurassic Seas
• Newly Discovered Fossil Shows Bees Evolved From Wasps
• Study: All the World's Honeybees Come From Africa
• Study: Spiders Developed Web-Spinning Only Once
• Scientists Create Butterfly Hybrid
• First Flowers Triggered Boom in Ant Diversity

MAMMALS

• Tiny Shrew Shot Venom Through Blood-Red Teeth
• Three Michigan Boys Find Mammoth Bone
• Ice Age Fossils, Including Those of Saber-Toothed Cat, Found in L.A. Tar Pit
• California 'Mammoth Tusk' Really Extinct Whale's Jawbone
• Possible Prehistoric Mammoth Tusk Uncovered in California
• Woolly Mammoth's DNA Almost Fully Deciphered
• Sabertooth Tigers May Have Been Party Animals
• Cloned Mammoths Made More Likely by Frozen Mice
• Mammoth Tooth Found in Hurricane Ike Debris
• Early Whale Used Hind Legs to Swim
• Million-Year-Old Camel Jaw Found in Syrian Desert
• American Mammoths Invaded Russia, Study Finds
• Woolly Mammoths May Have Formed Two Distinct Groups
• Ancient Elephants Spent Most of Lives in Water
• Fossil Shows Bats Flew Before Developing 'Radar'

ORIGINS OF LIFE

• Life on Earth May Have Started Even Earlier Than Thought
• Oldest Fossil Evidence for Animals Found
• Life As We Know It Nearly Created in Lab
• Volcanoes May Be Original Womb of Life
• Ancient Australian Reef Predates Animal Life
• Signs of Life Found Inside Ancient Rock Salt
• Diamonds May Have Jump-Started Life on Earth
• Life-From-Space Theory Gets Unexpected Boost
• More Evidence That Life Started in Space
• Earlier Evolutionary Explosion May Have Preceded Cambrian
• New Hypothesis: Life Could Have Started in Layers of Mica
• Chemists Concoct Part of Life's Recipe
• Earth's Oxygen-Rich Atmosphere Older Than Thought
• Early Life on Earth May Have Been Purple, Not Green
• Missing Link Found in Ancient Embryos

OTHER ANIMAL PHYLA

• Scientists Zero In On Earth's Original Animal
• Forgotten Fossil Bed Found Again After 150 Years
• Vermont Moves to Preserve Half-Billion-Year-Old Fossil Reef
• Maine Mussels Evolve Defense Mechanism in 15 Years
• X-Rays Reveal Hidden Structures of Half-Billion-Year-Old Fossil Embryos
• Geologists Find 500-Million-Year-Old Feces

PLANTS AND FUNGI

• Evolutionary 'Big Bang' Created Florist's Paradise
• Second Cave Full of Fossils Found in Illinois
• One of World's First Trees Reconstructed
• First Flowers Triggered Boom in Ant Diversity

REPTILES AND AMPHIBIANS

• Predator X Was Most Fearsome Animal to Swim Oceans
• Youngsters Catch First Glimpse of Ancient Crocodile With Huge Boar-Like Tusks
• Monster Snake Slithered at 45 Feet Long
• Terrifying Crocodile-Like Frog Stalked Ancient World
• Cat-Sized Reptiles Once Lived in Antarctica
• Fossil 'Frog-amander' Fills Evolutionary Gap
• Ten-Foot Pointy-Nosed Prehistoric Sea Crocodile Unveiled in Brazil
• Arctic 'Sea Monster' Terrorized Prehistoric Oceans
• Dinosaur-Age Frog Was Size of Bowling Ball
• Crocodilian 'Missing Link' Found in Brazil
• Oldest Identifiable Footprints Found
• Ancient Gliding Reptile Discovered in Quarry
• DNA Suggests Ancient Frogs Cruised to the Caribbean
• Ancient Aquatic Lizard Was Losing Its Front Limbs
• Fearsome-Looking Jurassic Crocodile Unearthed in Oregon

SINGLE-CELLED ORGANISMS

• Ancient Microbes Found in 100-Million-Year-Old Termite
• Australian Mounds May Be Three-Billion-Year-Old Fossils
• Lasers Produce 3-D Images of Microscopic Fossils

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