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Ancient skeleton focus of modern debate
AP   Wednesday, 07 February 2007

Scientist's at work in the National Museum of Kenya in Nairobi, Thursday, Feb. 1, 2007. As this African nation prepares to unveil 'Turkana Boy' later this year and more than two decades after his discovery, his first public outing is creating a storm. The near complete skeleton of the 12 year boy, which has so far remained under lock and key in the vaults of Kenya's national museum, is at the center of the country's first ideological battle pitting creationism against evolutionary theory. ( AP Photo/Sayyid Azim)AP - Deep in the dusty, unlit corridors of Kenya's national museum, locked away in a plain-looking cabinet, is one of mankind's oldest relics: Turkana Boy, as he is known, the most complete skeleton of a prehistoric human ever found.
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Dinosaur eggs reportedly found in India
AP   Tuesday, 06 February 2007

Fossilized eggs of dinosaurs are shown to media persons at Mandav, around 280 kilometers (175 miles) west of Bhopal, India, Monday, Feb. 5, 2007. Explorers have stumbled upon more than 100 fossilized eggs of dinosaurs belonging to the Cretaceous Era (approximately 144 to 65 million years ago), in Kukshi-Bagh area of Dhar district, of Madhya Pradesh according to a newspaper report. (AP Photo)AP - Three Indian explorers have recovered more than 100 fossilized eggs of dinosaurs in a remote area in a central Indian state, a news report said Monday.
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Mastodon tooth fossil remains a mystery
AP   Saturday, 03 February 2007
AP - A mastodon tooth fossil found in an Ontario, Canada, attic remains a mystery, after a paleontologist concluded it does not belong with a skeleton here that is one of the world's most complete.
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Humans Wiped Out Australian Giants
LiveScience.com   Saturday, 27 January 2007
LiveScience.com - Humans, not climate change, wiped out large beasts such as marsupial lions and tree kangaroos that roamed Australia thousands of years ago, scientists have concluded based on a remarkable new set of fossils.
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Giant lions and kangaroos once roamed Australia
Reuters   Thursday, 25 January 2007
Reuters - Marsupial lions, kangaroos as tall as trucks and wombats the size of a rhinoceros roamed Australia's outback before being killed off by fires lit by arriving humans, scientists said on Thursday.
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Southern Australia throws up treasure trove of fossils
AFP   Thursday, 25 January 2007

A photo taken in 2002 shows the jaw from the skeleton of a giant marsupial lion, thylacoleo carnifex, from a cave in the Nullarbor Plain. Caves in the Sun-scorched, treeless wilderness of southern Australia's Nullarbor plain have revealed one of the world's most remarkable collections of fossils, including species of now-extinct kangaroos that lived hundreds of thousands of years ago.(AFP/HO/File/Clay Bryce)AFP - Caves in the Sun-scorched, treeless wilderness of southern Australia's Nullarbor plain have revealed one of the world's most remarkable collections of fossils, including species of now-extinct kangaroos that lived hundreds of thousands of years ago.
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Small feathered dinosaur glided with biplane wings
Reuters   Wednesday, 24 January 2007
Reuters - About 125 million years before the Wright brothers embraced a similar design, a small feathered dinosaur took to the air with a biplane wing arrangement enabling it to glide from treetops, experts say.
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Missing Link Found in Ancient Embryos
LiveScience.com   Tuesday, 23 January 2007
LiveScience.com - The discovery of spherical fossils that resemble tiny baseballs could reveal how the earliest known egg-laying organism developed from embryo to adulthood.
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Early flying dinosaur glided with four wings like biplane: study
AFP   Tuesday, 23 January 2007

A fossil of a Microraptor from a 130-million year old forest that existed in what is now Liaoning Province, China is displayed at the exhibit "Dinosaurs: Ancient Fossils, New Discoveries" at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, in 2005. The early flying dinosaur probably spread two pairs of feathered wings like early aviation's biplane to glide between trees, according to a study.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Spencer Platt)AFP - The early flying dinosaur probably spread two pairs of feathered wings like early aviation's biplane to glide between trees, according to a study.
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Dinosaur may have resembled the biplane
AP   Tuesday, 23 January 2007
AP - When the Wright Brothers first took to the sky in a biplane, they were using a design nature may have tried 125 million years earlier. A new study of one of the earliest feathered dinosaurs suggests it may have had upper and lower sets of wings, much like the biplanes of early aviation. Today, the biplane is widely considered an old-fashioned rarity.
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Ancient Reptile Had Two Heads
LiveScience.com   Saturday, 20 January 2007
LiveScience.com - Scientists have unearthed the fossil of a young, two-headed marine reptile that lived when dinosaurs still walked the Earth.
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