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Geotimes
September 2007
Kathryn Hansen |
Controversy in the Cradle of Humankind East Africa indeed has much heritage to protect, as the region has been a hotspot for paleoanthropologists trying to understand the evolutionary relationships between early hominins since at least the 1950s.   |
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
March 2005
Megan Sever |
Mother Lode of Hominid Fossils Researchers excavating in Ethiopia have recently discovered the remains of nine individual hominids from the Early Pliocene, thus helping scientists understand more of the human evolution puzzle. |
Scientific American
December 2006 |
Old Baby in the New Media The news of Selam, the discovery of a tiny being born 3.3 million years ago, was able to spread rapidly due to digital media. Just how is this digital age affecting publishing and research presentation. |
Smithsonian
February 2005
Lawrence M. Small |
From the Secretary - Our Adaptable Ancestors Recent discoveries of skull fragments and tools testify to the resourcefulness of early humans. |
Geotimes
February 2004
Megan Sever |
An African puzzle piece The time period from 32 to 24 million years ago has largely been a black hole for paleontologists studying East Africa's animals. Newly discovered large vertebrate fossils from Ethiopia, however, are providing evidence that not only was there a thriving and diverse population, but also that it continued long after. |
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. |
Smithsonian
November 2006 |
Wild Things: Life as We Know It The Dinosaurs Are Coming!... Timeworn Tot... It's a Snap... Observed... Listening to Luna... |
Geotimes
January 2007
Carolyn Gramling |
The Color of Crinoids Scientists have discovered complex organic molecules still preserved within 350-million-year-old crinoid fossils. Because the molecules are slightly different from species to species, the find could offer a new way to track the creatures' evolution through time. |
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. |
Scientific American
August 2005
Kate Wong |
Footprints to Fill Flat feet and doubts about makers of the 3.6-million-year-old Laetoli footprints, thought to have been made by Australopithecus afarensis. |
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. |
