A T. rex-sized, meat-eating dinosaur found in Argentina may have hunted in packs, according to palaeontologists.
[Read](http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/sci/tech/4918292.stm) (BBC)
Dino may have been pack hunter
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Category Archives: History
Admission Fee Idea Floated For Smithsonian
A [Smithsonian](http://www.si.edu/) official said the complex is crumbling, and the museums and [National Zoo](http://nationalzoo.si.edu/default.cfm) need major repairs. The museum and zoo have been free for 160 years, but [Congressman Jim Moran](http://moran.house.gov/) has proposed charging a $1 admission fee to raise money to make some of the repairs.
[Read](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/29/AR2006032902544.html?nav=rss_artsandliving) (Washington Post)
Yet Another Test Post from OPML Editor
Trying categories in OPML Editor after updating wordpress to ver 2
Categories worked now!! Now, can I successfully edit a post?
Editing worked. Now, can I change the post category??
I can add a category, but it doesn’t appear that I can remove a category.
Did early humans socialise to avoid getting eaten?
Simulations provide more evidence that hominids may have adapted cooperative behaviours to avoid being eaten by animals.
Read (New Scientist)
French caver makes historic find
A French caver discovered prehistoric cave art believed to date back 27,000 years.
Read (BBC)
US Civil War ‘led to ill health’
Many soldiers who fought in the US Civil War suffered a life of ill health afterwards, a study says.
Read (BBC)
The Past Lives of some Chesapeake Bay Islands
The AP looks at the past lives of some Chesapeake islands that are now completely or partially submerged.
Read (AP via WVEC)
Lewis & Clark Mapped It – Then the Nation Remade the West
It’s been 200 years since Lewis and Clark made their trip through the Northwest, and much has changed. Many of the rivers have been damned, which flooded land and adversely affected the salmon. Most of the region has fewer people now than it did then. The exception is the state of Washington, which has more people now than the entire United States had in 1805.
Read (Washington Post)
Did pioneer farmers fail to spread their seed?
European immigrants may have passed on agricultural skills, but not their genes.
Read (Nature)
Marine Corps Museum Is On Schedule
The National Museum of the Marine Corps is being built near the main entrance to Quantico and is on track for a November 2006 opening.
Read (Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star)
China finds ancient observatory
Archaeologists in northern China have reportedly found one of the world’s oldest observatories. The remains are thought to be about 4,100 years old.
Read (BBC)
Comets Blasted Early Americans
A supernova could be the “quick and dirty” explanation for what may have happened to an early North American culture.
Read (WTOP)
Georgians Claim to Unearth Ancient Skull
Archaeologists in the former Soviet republic of Georgia have unearthed a skull they say is 1.8 million years old _ part of a find that holds the oldest traces of humankind’s closest ancestors ever found in Europe.
Read (AP via WTOP)
Fossil Poachers Find Easy Pickings on Remote Federal Land
The Forest Service says that fossil poaching has become rampant in recent years at Oglala National Grasslands in Nebraska.
Read (New York Times)
Footprints of ‘first Americans’
Human settlers made it to the Americas 30,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to new evidence.
A team of scientists came to this controversial conclusion by dating human footprints preserved by volcanic ash in an abandoned quarry in Mexico.
Read (BBC)