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How and when spines changed in mammalian evolution
Feb 04, 2020 (SPX)
By comparing the biomechanics of two modern animals, cat and lizard, and CT scans of synapsid fossils, the researchers overturned the traditional notion that th...
The 'firewalkers' of Karoo: Dinosaurs and other animals left tracks in a 'land of fire'
Jan 30, 2020 (SPX)
The Karoo Basin of southern Africa is well-known for its massive deposits of igneous rocks left behind by extensive basaltic lava flows during the Early Jurassi...
Unusual carnivorous dinosaurs called noasaurids lived in Australia
Jan 30, 2020 (UPI)
Noasaurids were small-bodied carnivores that walked on two legs and were characterized by a variety of unique facial features. The largest of the diminutive mea...
Tiny, ancient meteorites suggest early Earth's atmosphere was rich in carbon dioxide
Jan 28, 2020 (SPX)
A University of Washington team looked at very old samples of these small meteorites to show that the grains could have reacted with carbon dioxide on their jou...
Mushrooms are older than we thought
Jan 24, 2020 (SPX)
A group of researchers led by Professor Steeve Bonneville, from the 'Biogeochemistry and Earth system modelling' research unit (Faculty of Sciences) at the Univ...
New meat-eating dinosaur species found in Utah
Jan 24, 2020 (UPI)
The new species, which lived 155 million years ago in what's now Colorado, Utah and Wyoming, is a member of a group of dinosaurs called allosauroids. Some allos...
New research provides evidence of strong early magnetic field around Earth
Jan 22, 2020 (SPX)
Given the importance of the magnetic field, scientists have been trying to figure out how the field has changed throughout Earth's history. That knowledge can p...
Acoustic communication first emerged nearly 200 million years ago
Jan 17, 2020 (UPI)
Scientists began by plotting the relationships among some 1,800 species of tetrapods, including birds, frogs, crocodilians and mammals on a giant evolutionary t...
Mapping the cosmic journey of phosphorus with Rosetta and ALMA
Jan 17, 2020 (ESA)
An essential element for life as we know it, phosphorus is present in our DNA and cell membranes. But how it arrived on the early Earth is something of a myster...
Volcanism didn't play a role in demise of dinosaurs
Jan 16, 2020 (UPI)
New research, however, suggests the volcanic activity in question occurred well before, and was unrelated to, the mass extinction event that killed the dinosaur...
Researchers discover oldest fossilized slime mold
Jan 13, 2020 (SPX)
The fossil is about 100 million years old and is exquisitely preserved in amber from Myanmar. The results have been published in the journal Scientific Reports....
Ghost worms mostly unchanged since the age of dinosaurs
Jan 08, 2020 (SPX)
A team lead by biologists at the Natural History Museum (University of Oslo) has uncovered a group of species in which change in appearance seems to have been b...
Life could have emerged from lakes with high phosphorus
Jan 07, 2020 (SPX)
But how did a lifeless environment on the early Earth supply this key ingredient? "For 50 years, what's called 'the phosphate problem,' has plagued studies on t...
Bone analysis shows small T. rexes were kids, not distinct genus
Jan 02, 2020 (UPI)
Authors of a new study, published this week in the journal Science Advances, claim the shrunken specimens are juvenile T. rexes. Tyrannosaurus rexes are famous ...
Fish fossils show how fins became limbs
Dec 31, 2019 (UPI)
Now, thanks to the discovery and study of an ancient fish fossil, scientists are beginning to understand how fins became limbs. Using CT scans, paleontologists ...
OU geoscientists document 300-million-year-old atmospheric dust
Dec 30, 2019 (SPX)
Mehrdad Sardar Abadi, a researcher in the Mewbourne College of Earth and Energy School of Geosciences and School director Lynn Soreghan, led a study with resear...
Earliest fossil evidence of parental care found in Nova Scotia
Dec 26, 2019 (UPI)
Researchers from Carleton University found the fossil of a varanopid synapsid on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia that appears to be a younger individual of th...
Bite marks in fossils reveal demise of our early relatives
Dec 18, 2019 (SPX)
Palaeontologists at The University of Manchester have revealed the changing pattern in bite marks in fossil record of early vertebrates through time, and unlock...
Canadian tundra formerly covered in rich forest: Ancient plant fossil record shows
Dec 13, 2019 (SPX)
Now covered in ice and snow, present-day Ellesmere and Axel Heiberg islands in Nunavut were once home to a vibrant, temperate forest, according to fossil resear...
Breathing new life into the rise of oxygen debate
Dec 11, 2019 (SPX)
The study, presented at AGU's Fall Meeting and published in the journal Science, not only shines a light on the history of oxygen on our planet, but also gives ...
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