Archaeology & Paleontology

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

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Geotimes September 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Large Dinosaurs Ran Hot Size does matter -- at least when it comes to dinosaurs' body temperatures, according to new research. Using growth rate and age information gleaned from fossils, researchers have estimated likely body temperatures for dinosaurs of various sizes, as well as tyrannosaur survival rates.
Outside September 2006 Bruce Barcott	The Evolution Revolution Our greatest science writers take on intelligent design in books that explore the theories of Charles Darwin and the 21st-century consequences of not believing
Geotimes August 2006 Jennifer Yauck	Hobbit Was Pygmy, Scientists Say The latest study to weigh in on the Homo floresiensis controversy says that the so-called hobbit is not a new hominid species, but rather a pygmy human with an unknown developmental abnormality.
Geotimes August 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Dwarfing Earth's Largest Dinosaur When compared to their counterparts today, animals and plants in the late Jurassic period, about 161 million to 145 million years ago, appear super-sized. Newly discovered dinosaur fossils show, however, that the largest animal to ever walk on Earth also came in a dwarfed version.
Geotimes August 2006 Jennifer Yauck	Microbes Reshuffle Earth's Early History Previously, scientists used microfossil evidence to date the earliest eukaryotes to about 1.8 billion years old, and the earliest cyanobacteria to about 2.1 billion years old. Now, geologists present new evidence suggesting both types of organisms existed as early as 2.45 billion years ago.
Geotimes August 2006 Jennifer Yauck	Ancient Bird Fossil Makes a Splash Recent expeditions in a remote area of China have unearthed unusually well-preserved fossils of an ancient bird that lived between 105 million and 115 million years ago. The fossils of the surprisingly modern-looking bird suggest that today's birds may have originated from an aquatic ancestor.
Geotimes August 2006 Megan Sever	From Hot to Cold in the Arctic For the first time, scientists have recovered direct evidence of what life in the Arctic has been like for the past 56 million years. A new 400-meter-long sediment core is revealing that all in the Arctic has not always been as it seems.
Wired July 2006 Annalee Newitz	Code of the Caveman A new DNA mapping technique may solve an ancient mystery: Do modern humans carry Neanderthal genes?
Scientific American July 2006 Blake Edgar	Standing Up to Dance and Sing How we became hominid, then human.. These books explore our origins. The First Human: The Race to Discover our Earliest Ancestors by Ann Gibbons... The Singing Neanderthals: The origins of Music, Language, Mind, and Body by Steven Mithen.
Geotimes June 2006 Jennifer Yauck	Ancient Bird Fossil Makes a Splash Recent expeditions in China have unearthed well-preserved fossils of an ancient bird that lived between 105 million and 115 million years ago. The fossils of the modern-looking bird suggest that today's birds may have originated from an aquatic ancestor.
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