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Are These Horse Genes Really 700,000 Years Old?

June 27, 2013

News sites are celebrating a "spectacular" new record for fossil DNA, claiming horse genes found in permafrost are 700,000 years old, placing the common ancestor two million years earlier than thought.

Amazing Facts

Biomimetics Roundup

April 20, 2013

Here's a quick rundown of news on new technologies emerging from the study of plants, animals, and cells.

Darwin and Evolution

Lemur-fish, Vege-fang and other Fossil Follies

October 4, 2012

Fossils are doing just fine, but the scientists who interpret them are having a rough week (or century).

Early Man

Man, Mammals, and Ice Ages

November 7, 2011

What do scientists really know about early man and the creatures in his habitat? Some clues can be found by following science news in a historical fashion: that is, to look for reversals of previously-held opinions, surprises in fossils, and other evidences that scientists are not really making progress in their theories, despite the common […]

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