http://netvouz.com/Kiri/tag/paleozoology?feed=rss Kiri's bookmarks tagged "paleozoology" on Netvouz http://johnhawks.net/weblog/reviews/archaeology/middle/giant_camel_kowm_2006.w Swiss researchers have discovered the 100,000-year-old remains of a previously unknown giant camel species in central Syria. Anthropology > Articles Kiri Sat, 20 Oct 2007 22:58:12 GMT http://www.physorg.com/news102689043.html All domestic cats are descended from at least five common ancestors from the Near East, Oxford University scientists and their collaborators have discovered. The new research, published in this week’s Science, also suggests that the domestic cat’s ancestors diverged from the ancestors of other populations of today’s wildcats around 130,000 years ago, far earlier than previously suspected. Anthropology > Articles Kiri Sun, 21 Oct 2007 18:34:37 GMT