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Last Updated July 19, 2001

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Invertebrates

• Earliest Human Ancestors Discovered in Ethiopia (7/11/01)

• Ancient Tick Found in New Jersey Leaves Experts Guessing (3/27/01)

• First Ever 3-D Images Of Soft-Bodied Fossils Developed (3/23/01)

• New Evidence Of Life On Earth 2.6 Billion Years Ago (11/30/00)

• Giant Trilobite Discovered (BBC On Line)(10/9/00)

• New Fossil Find Pushes Age of Terrestrial Fungi Back 60 Million
  Years (9/14/00)

• Life, Death in an Ancient Sea (Washington Post) (8/21/00)

• Fossils' Fuel (Nature)(8/11/00)

• Biting Beetle Gives Away Secrets (BBC OnLine) (7/18/00)

• Discovery of Fossil Mollusks in Alaska Links Histories of Arctic
  Ocean and Isthmus of Panama (6/7/00)

• Earliest Fossils of Sealife Found (Discovery) (6/7/00)

• Strange Friendship Between Trilobites and Sulpher-loving Bugs is First Evidence of Symbiotic Relationships (Discovery) (6/6/00)

• Modern Insects Lost Extra Legs Through the Ages (ABC News) (4/25/00)

• Fossil Mayflies Can Be Used to 'Weigh' Ancient Atmospheres (12/14/99)

• Bully for Brachiopods (Nature) (11/17/99)

• A Novel Insect Eye Could Be a Very Old Way of Seeing (11/4/9)

• One-of-a-Kind Fossil Discovered (Discovery Channel)(8/23/99)

• Life on Earth a Billion Years Older than Previously Shown (CNN 8/12/99)

• The First Oxygen-Maker- Fossil May Be Organism That Did It First (ABC News) (8/4/99)

• Fossils Show Insects Thrive in Heat (ABC News) (6/25/99)

• Katydids Hummed Same Tune 55 Million Years Ago (ABC News) (6/17/99)

• 'Oldest ever' fossils found (BBC On Line) (3/27/99)

• When we were Worms (BBC On Line) (3/18/99)

• Not a hand but maybe a sponge: A mysterious glass fossil becomes the subject of a public search (2/24/99)

• Geologists Hunt for Evidence of Ancient Crinoid (10/20/97)
  

 

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