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Long recovery from the largest extinction in history revealed in Chinas new fossil site

December, 22 2010

PhysOrg

Eugnathid fish A major new fossil site in south west China has filled in a sizeable gap in our understanding of how life on this planet recovered from the greatest mass extinction of all time, according to a paper co authored by Professor Mike Benton, in the School of Earth Sciences, and published this week in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. The work is led by scientists from the Chengdu Geological Center in China.

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Fossil genome reveals ancestral link

December, 22 2010

Nature

A finger bone and a tooth (inset) from Denisova Cave have illuminated a mysterious strand of hominin.B. VIOLA, MPI EVA A distant cousin raises questions about human origins.

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Ancient citadel, metal artifact found in northern Peru

December, 20 2010

Andina

Metal artifact found in Cordillera de Colan. Photo: ANDINA / Alberto Pintado. Rangers at the Cordillera de Colan Reserved Zone in Amazonas, northern Peru, have found what is believed to be an Inca citadel as well as some stone and metal artifacts during a routine patrolling in the Cajaruro district.

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Beneath the Dead Sea, Scientists Are Drilling for Natural History

December, 20 2010

New York Times

Five miles out, nearly to the center of the Dead Sea, an international team of scientists has been drilling beneath the seabed to extract a record of climate change and earthquake history stretching back half a million years.

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Climate, culture linked in prehistoric Northeast

December, 20 2010

Boston Globe

Though climate change seems a particularly modern predicament one that generates alarm about the fate of the planet and how people and businesses will adapt scientists are finding evidence that climate fluctuations influenced cultural changes among inhabitants of prehistoric New England.

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Amateur claims the discovery of a 35km long rock painting

December, 20 2010

Times of India

A Bundi based amateur archeologist has claimed to have discovered a rock painting of pre historic age stretching up to 35 km in the Garadha area of the district.

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David Attenborough and the mystery of the elephant bird

December, 20 2010

Telegraph UK

An elephant bird and Sir David Attenborough with the elephant bird egg Photo: De Agostini Picture Library /BBC The largest bird to ever live on the planet was driven to extinction by humans eating its massive eggs, according to a new television documentary by Sir David Attenborough.

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Along The Hammonasset Line

December, 20 2010

Hartford Courant

Researcher Charles Thomas Paul takes us around the shoreline and this Hammonasset line looking at various stone ca (Bettina Hansen, Hartford Courant / December 7, 2010) Madison Resident Finding Stone Formations He Believes Native Americans Built Long Ago To Mark Winter Solstice Sunrise

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Archeologists Unearth Belltower Bases of Smolny Cathedral in Saint Petersburg

December, 20 2010

Russia InfoCenter

Archeologists Unearth Belltower Bases of Smolny Cathedral in Saint Petersburg Archeologists of the Institute of Material Culture History of the Russian Academy of Sciences have discovered bases of the belltower of Smolny Cathedral in St. Petersburg.

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Chinese site excavation one of top science stories of the year

December, 20 2010

PhysOrg

Sanyangzhuang tiles set aside to repair a Han house. Credit: HENAN PROVINCAL INST. CULTURAL RELICS AND ARCHAEOLOGY A WUSTL professor's excavation of a "gold mine of archeology" in China has been ranked as one of the top 100 science stories of 2010 by Discover magazine.