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Tale of 2 climate crises gives clues to the present
Oct 17, 2019 (SPX)
The two most recent major global warming events are especially instructive - and worrisome, say scientists presenting new research Wednesday at the Annual Meeti...
What color were fossil animals
Oct 17, 2019 (SPX)
"People are fascinated by the colour and pattern of dinosaurs and other extinct animals because these aspects can tell you so much about an animal. Just think o...
Grand ideas, global reverberations: Grand Canyon at its 6 millionth anniversary
Oct 17, 2019 (SPX)
The Grand Canyon was carved by the Colorado River, a ribbon of life-giving water that flows through the center of a desert wilderness. It was down this uncharte...
New study shows huge dinosaurs evolved different cooling systems to combat heat stroke
Oct 17, 2019 (SPX)
"The brain and sense organs like the eye are very sensitive to temperature," said Ruger Porter, Assistant Professor of Anatomical Instruction and lead author of...
USC scientist identifies new species of giant flying reptile
Oct 14, 2019 (SPX)
The creature is similar to the largest pterosaurs known, yet key characteristics gleaned from a cache of bones unearthed in Canada show it's actually part of a ...
New giant predatory dinosaur species found in Thailand
Oct 09, 2019 (UPI)
The newly named species was an allosauroid theropod, a widespread group of apex predators that were active during the Middle Jurassic to Late Cretaceous periods...
Scientists identify molecule that could have helped cells thrive on early Earth
Oct 09, 2019 (SPX)
A new study, led by Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy, PhD, of Scripps Research, and Sheref Mansy, PhD, of the University of Trento, offers an explanation for how "pr...
Birds, mammals drove camouflage adaptations of stick, leaf insects
Oct 07, 2019 (UPI)
According to new research, it was the ascendancy of birds and mammals some 66 million years ago that first inspired the range of camouflage adopted by stick and...
L-chondrite breakup might have contributed to Ordovician biodiversification
Oct 04, 2019 (SPX)
"The enrichment of stratosphere by space dust in the mid-Ordovician might have triggered the ensuing cooling and biological diversification, and, consequently, ...
Ancient Australia was home to strange marsupial giants, some weighing over 1,000 kg
Sep 23, 2019 (SPX)
For most of the last 25 million years, eastern Australia was home to a now-extinct group of marsupials called palorchestids. These animals are well known for th...
Half-a-billion-year-old tiny predator unveils the rise of scorpions and spiders
Sep 23, 2019 (SPX)
Mollisonia plenovenatrix would have been a fierce predator - for its size. As big as a thumb, the creature boasted a pair of large egg-shaped eyes and a "multi-...
Sharks used suction feeding 335 million years ago
Sep 12, 2019 (UPI)
Ray-finned fishes are traditionally credited with developing high-performance suction feeding, while sharks and their relatively primitive jaws have mostly been...
New duck-billed dinosaur discovered in Japan
Sep 05, 2019 (UPI)
The 72-million-year-old remains were recovered from marine shelf deposits comprising the Upper Cretaceous Hakobuchi Formation, located near the town of Mukawa o...
Fossils dating back 550 million years among first animal trails
Sep 05, 2019 (SPX)
Shuhai Xiao, a professor of geosciences with the Virginia Tech College of Science, calls the unearthed fossils, including the bodies and trails left by an ancie...
Ancient die-off greater than the dinosaur extinction
Sep 02, 2019 (SPX)
Rather than prowling animals, this die-off involved miniscule microorganisms that shaped the Earth's atmosphere and ultimately paved the way for those larger an...
Rise of dinosaurs linked to increasing oxygen levels
Aug 23, 2019 (SPX)
The US-based scientists have developed a new technique for releasing tiny amounts of gas trapped inside ancient carbonate minerals. The gases are then channelle...
Scientists unpick the history of Western France, written in 300-million-year-old rainwater
Aug 23, 2019 (SPX)
The results come from isotopic analysis of rain which fell on the ancient Variscan belt mountain range. As lead researcher, Dr Camille Dusseaux (University of P...
Origin of massive methane reservoir identified
Aug 23, 2019 (SPX)
Researchers had long noticed methane released from deep-sea vents. But while the gas is plentiful in the atmosphere where it's produced by living things, the so...
Early life on Earth limited by enzyme
Aug 23, 2019 (SPX)
Found only in bacteria today, nitrogenase is nevertheless essential for the production of oxygen from water in photosynthesis, making it instrumental in how aqu...
Supernova could explain extinctions at the end of the Devonian period
Aug 18, 2019 (UPI)
Around 360 million years ago, a lengthy period of biodiversity declines culminated in a series of extinction events that saw 19 percent of all families and 50 p...
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