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JUL 12, 2010
Flimsy Feathers Could birdlike dinosaurs really fly?

JUL 6, 2010
Oldest Bite Marks Paleontologists have found the oldest known mammalian tooth marks on dinosaur bones.

MAR 5, 2010
Early Life Roundup A giant ancient snake feasted upon crocodiles.

JAN 4, 2010
Venomous Dinosaurs A venomous feathered dinosaur may have eaten its prey alive.

NOV 30, 2009
Ancient Pollination Millions of years before flowers evolved, insects were pollinating non-flowering plants.

NOV 6, 2009
Reptile Roundup Huge snakes are invading southern Florida and wreaking havoc on the native wildlife there.

OCT 12, 2009
Ardipithicus Fossil Scientists unveil details about Ardipithicus, a possible human ancestor.

AUG 6, 2009
Diamonds & Extinction What really killed North America’s large mammals at the end of the last ice age?

JUL 6, 2009
Re-Sizing Dinosaurs Dinosaurs may have been smaller than previous estimates.

MAY 15, 2009
Comet Roundup Comets may have provided the young Earth the molecules necessary for the formation of life.

MAR 9, 2009
Giant Snake A super-sized snake in prehistoric Colombia tells scientists about the future of global warming.

FEB 20, 2009
Prehistoric Roundup A newly discovered fossil reveals a warmer climate in the past.

OCT 14, 2008
Small Dino Scientists discover North America’s smallest dinosaur to date.

AUG 15, 2008
Fish Roundup The beautiful but invasive lionfish is wreaking havoc on its adopted ecosystems.

AUG 13, 2008
Canada Explosion Diamonds and precious metals in the American Midwest point to a cataclysmic explosion in Canada long ago.

JUN 9, 2008
Amphibian Missing Link The discovery of an ancient fossil dubbed the “Frogomander” is clearing up a mystery about the origins of modern amphibians.

MAY 15, 2008
Tyrannosaurus Rex & Birds Protein sequencing confirms the evolutionary relationships between dinosaurs and birds.

APR 17, 2008
Transitional Fossils A listener asks: Have many transitional fossils showing evolutionary links between major groups of animals been found in the fossil record?

MAR 20, 2008
Encyclopedia of Life A new, comprehensive repository of scientific information for all life on earth comes to the web.

DEC 25, 2007
Giant Scorpion Paleontologists have found the largest single arthropod known to science.

NOV 15, 2007
Hot Extinctions Warmer temperatures have consistently preceded more extinctions throughout Earth's history.

NOV 12, 2007
Himalayan Collision A high-speed continental cataclysm formed the Himalayas 50 million years ago.

OCT 24, 2007
Woolly DNA Woolly mammoths went extinct thousands of years ago. But now their genetic past is being resurrected through new DNA techniques.

OCT 9, 2007
Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Scientists have identified the event that probably created the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs.

OCT 5, 2007
Fossil Roundup Fossils from Mongolia reveal that velociraptors had feathers.

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