Americans Heads Are Getting Bigger The story of human evolution goes something like this: Millions of years ago, homo sapiens began to evolve from the prehistoric ancestor we share with our monkey cousins. First, we evolved the ability to walk uprigh

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In The Past, Insects Were Huge! Once upon a time, hundreds of millions of years ago, many insects were much larger than they are today. Scientists have found fossilized remains of dragonflies with wingspans several feet in diameter. Other insects wer

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Sometime Cavemen From the bestselling novel Clan of the Cave Bear to the 1981 movie Caveman, pop-culture tends to misrepresent prehistoric people as cave dwelling brutes. But even the most speculative recreations of early human society are based on a

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Survival at Stake For Girl, Dad in 'Beasts of The Southern Wild' Beasts of the Southern Wild, the small film from a new director, won the Grand Jury prize at the Sundance Festival and then the prestigious Camera D'Or at Cannes. It's a tale of surviva

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Male lions defend their cubs against rivals who see their offspring as future competition for food and mates. So its likely that an intelligent predator like T-Rex would do the same. Compared to prehistoric plant eaters, its cerebrum, the part of the

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By Jessica Berman Washington 12 April 2006 An international team of anthropologists has discovered fossils in eastern Ethiopia that they say may be a missing link between our earliest and more modern

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