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Four-hundred-eighty-million-year-old fossils reveal sea lilies' ancient roots
Dec 10, 2019 (SPX)
For nearly two centuries, scientists have thought about how modern sea lilies evolved from their ancient ancestors. In a new study in the Journal of Paleontolog...
Lice were infesting dinosaur feathers 100 million years ago
Dec 10, 2019 (UPI)
Scientists described the discovery this week in the journal Nature Communications. "The preservation in amber is extremely good, so good it's almost like live i...
The visual apparatus of today's horseshoe crabs goes back 400 million years
Dec 04, 2019 (SPX)
Cooperation partners in the project were Dr Markus Poschmann from the Directorate General of Cultural Heritage RLP, Directorate of Regional Archaeology/Earth Hi...
Breathing? Thank volcanoes, tectonics and bacteria
Dec 03, 2019 (SPX)
The study by geoscientists at Rice University offers a new theory to help explain the appearance of significant concentrations of oxygen in Earth's atmosphere a...
Ancient microbes helped to keep Earth's early climate warm
Dec 03, 2019 (SPX)
The study, conducted by an international consortium of researchers including the University of Alberta and the University of British Columbia, examined modern b...
Paleontologists identify new group of pterosaurs
Dec 03, 2019 (SPX)
The research describes an ancient and extremely well-preserved pterosaur specimen originally discovered in a private limestone quarry in Lebanon more than 15 ye...
How ancient microbes created massive ore deposits, set the stage for early life on Earth
Dec 03, 2019 (SPX)
University of British Columbia (UBC) researchers, and collaborators from the universities of Alberta, Tubingen, Autonoma de Barcelona and the Georgia Institute ...
Aquatic microorganisms offer important window on the history of life
Nov 26, 2019 (SPX)
According to Jeremy Wideman, a researcher at the Biodesign Center for Mechanisms in Evolution at Arizona State University, we have a great deal to learn from th...
Snakes had legs, cheek bones 100 million years ago
Nov 21, 2019 (UPI)
The remains of the rear-limbed snake species Najash rionegrina, unearthed in Argentina, were remarkably well-preserved, revealing the presence of a type of chee...
Lichens are much younger than scientists thought
Nov 15, 2019 (UPI)
Lichens are composite organisms formed by symbiotic relationships between algae or cyanobacteria and different fungi species. Because they can grow on rocks, sc...
First evidence of feathered polar dinosaurs found in Australia
Nov 15, 2019 (SPX)
Feathered dinosaur fossils are famous, but known from a handful of localities worldwide. Examples from the Southern Hemisphere are especially rare, and mainly i...
New fossil pushes back physical evidence of insect pollination to 99 million years ago
Nov 12, 2019 (SPX)
The revelation is based upon a tumbling flower beetle with pollen on its legs discovered preserved in amber deep inside a mine in northern Myanmar. The fossil c...
New way to date rocks
Nov 05, 2019 (SPX)
The researchers have identified a new reference material and used a state-of-the-art instrument to better date rock formations in central Asia. UQ's Professor J...
Meat-eating dinosaurs adopted highly specialized diets
Nov 04, 2019 (UPI)
New research, however, suggests meat-eating dinosaurs developed highly specialized diets, allowing theropods to avoid competition for resources. Of course, scie...
Colorado site shows how mammals thrived after dinosaurs were wiped out
Oct 28, 2019 (UPI)
The fossil site was discovered in a place called Corral Bluffs, located in central Colorado. Within the bluffs, paleontologists discovered hardened concretions ...
Study provides framework for one billion years of green plant evolution
Oct 25, 2019 (SPX)
Their findings, "One Thousand Plant Transcriptomes and Phylogenomics of Green Plants," published in Nature, (doi: 10.1038/s41586-019-1693-2) reveal the timing o...
Earliest tetrapods may have never left the water
Oct 24, 2019 (UPI)
New research suggests the transition from water to land was slow, and that the earliest tetrapods may have never abandoned the sea. In a new paper, published th...
Mystery solved: Ocean acidity in the last mass extinction
Oct 23, 2019 (SPX)
The researchers say it is the first direct evidence that the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event 66 million years ago coincided with a sharp drop in the pH le...
Earth's original building blocks discovered in diamond-bearing rocks
Oct 18, 2019 (SPX)
"Knowing the chemical signature of Earth's original building blocks is the holy grail of geochemistry," said Graham Pearson, author on the study. "This knowledg...
Collective behavior 480 million years ago
Oct 18, 2019 (SPX)
Collective and social behaviour is known to have evolved through natural selection over millions of years and modern arthropods provide numerous examples, such ...
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