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34 foreign scientists in Jaisalmer to study Dinosaurs` fossils

Last Updated: Monday, January 13, 2014, 02:16

A team of 34 foreign scientists from a number of countries including France and Germany have arrived here to study fossils of Dinosaurs found in sandy desert areas recently.

Island animals tamer: Study proves Charles Darwin`s Galapagos theory correct

Last Updated: Monday, January 13, 2014, 01:59

Charles Darwin`s Galapagos theory that states animals living on islands were tamer than on the mainlands has been proven correct by the scientists in a new study.

Some plants may not adapt quickly to climate change in future

Last Updated: Monday, December 23, 2013, 14:34

Researchers have suggested that some plants may not have the traits needed to rapidly respond to human-induced climate change.

Bird DNA could help bring Jurassic Park back to life

Last Updated: Monday, December 23, 2013, 10:42

Scientists have claimed that identifying and altering certain genes found in modern birds` DNA would mean that genomes of the dinosaurs could be engineered 20 million years after they became extinct.

Humans evolved agile hands much earlier than thought

Last Updated: Tuesday, December 17, 2013, 20:03

Humans may have evolved dexterous hands around half a million years earlier than previously thought, discovery of a 1.42-million-year-old bone fossil in Kenya suggests.

Chimps are rational, not conformists

Last Updated: Monday, December 16, 2013, 16:47

Researchers have found chimpanzees are sensitive to social influences but they maintain their own strategy to solve a problem rather than conforming to what the majority of group members are doing.

Life on Earth may have first originated deep underground

Last Updated: Monday, December 9, 2013, 14:18

The first replicating life-forms on the planet may have originated deep underground, a study has suggested.

Humans not smarter than animals: Experts

Last Updated: Sunday, December 8, 2013, 16:12

Humans have been deceiving themselves for thousands of years that they are smarter than the rest of the animal kingdom, despite growing evidence to the contrary, scientists say.

Oldest human DNA discovery in Spain scrambles evolution theory

Last Updated: Thursday, December 5, 2013, 12:27

Researchers have been able to determine an almost complete mitochondrial genome sequence of a 400,000-year-old hominin from Sima de los Huesos, a unique cave site in Northern Spain.

`Youngest` neutron star binary found

Last Updated: Thursday, December 5, 2013, 10:53

X-rays streaming towards Earth from the region near a neutron star that is cannibalizing its companion star are the youngest "X-ray binary" yet known, according to scientists.

Neanderthals, like humans, may have organized their living spaces

Last Updated: Wednesday, December 4, 2013, 11:24

Researchers have found that Neanderthals used to organize their living spaces in ways that were familiar to modern humans, a discovery that once again shows similarities between the close cousins.

Scientists claim solving protein synthesis mystery

Last Updated: Wednesday, December 4, 2013, 11:12

In a finding that would help understand evolution of life and also have implications for medical science, scientists today said they have been able to solve the mystery of nature in protein synthesis.