Archaeology & Paleontology

Magazine articles on archaeology, paleontology, artifacts, prehistoric origins.

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Geotimes June 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Penguins Endure Extinction Event Fossil and genetic evidence suggest that penguin ancestors living about 65 million years ago survived even more extreme conditions than they do today, including the impact that may have led to the demise of the dinosaurs.
Geotimes June 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Fish Fossil Fills Evolutionary Gap A newly discovered fossil is filling a gap in the spotty record of a key evolutionary period -- the phase when animals traded fins for feet and moved from their watery confines onto land.
Geotimes June 2006 Megan Sever	Found: One of Many Missing Human Links Researchers working in Ethiopia recently uncovered bones and teeth from one of many previously missing links in the hominid family tree. The newly found remains, researchers say, connect two well-known hominid species that are separated by 1 million years.
Geotimes June 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Fish Teeth Bite Into Antarctic Formation Ancient fish teeth are taking a bite out of an old conundrum about how Antarctica became the frigid continent that it is today. The teeth suggest an early start to key oceanic processes that drove the climatic shift.
Geotimes June 2006 Katie Unger	Ancient Methane-Makers Researchers extracted methane gas from hydrothermal dikes in Western Australia and say that microbes produced the gas, which is evidence of some of Earth's earliest life.
Geotimes June 2006 Erika Engelhaupt	Warming Opened Americas to Humans About 18,000 years ago the comparatively luxuriant Americas beckoned to hunter-gatherers in eastern Asia by way of present-day Alaska, with warmer climes and plenty of fish and game, say geoarchaeologists.
Science News May 20, 2006	Science Safari: Darwin and Evolution This online exhibit is a fascinating account of how Charles Darwin developed his theory of evolution and how that theory is regarded today.
Geotimes May 2006 Megan Sever	Hobbit's Species Status in Question A new study this week says that the hobbit, an 18,000-year-old diminutive hominid found in 2004 on the Indonesian island of Flores, should have never been called a new species, and that it instead is most likely a modern human with a brain abnormality.
Geotimes May 2006 Megan Sever	Fleeing Vesuvius A picture is worth more than a thousand words in the case of what some newly uncovered footprints in Vesuvian ash are telling researchers about the hazards that Italy's most notorious volcano might pose in the future.
Smithsonian May 2006 Helen Fields	Dinosaur Shocker New observations could shed light on how dinosaurs evolved and how their muscles and blood vessels worked. And the new findings might help settle a long-running debate about whether dinosaurs were warmblooded, coldblooded -- or both.
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