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Early species developed much faster than previously thought, OHIO research shows
Aug 17, 2019 (SPX)
She and fellow researchers have narrowed in a specific time during an era known as the Ordovician Radiation, showing that new species actually developed rapidly...
Scientists find natural pigment in 54-million-year-old insect eyes
Aug 15, 2019 (UPI)
"We were surprised by what we found because we were not looking for, or expecting it," Johan Lindgren, an associate professor in the geology department at Lund ...
Study details dinosaur brain development from baby to adult
Aug 15, 2019 (UPI)
Psittacosaurus was a genus of extinct dinosaur living in Asia between 126 and 101 million years ago. Over the decades, hundreds of specimens have been recovered...
A new timeline of Earth's cataclysmic past
Aug 13, 2019 (SPX)
Now, a team led by University of Colorado Boulder geologist Stephen Mojzsis has laid out a new timeline for this violent period in our planet's history. In a st...
Drop of ancient seawater rewrites Earth's history
Aug 05, 2019 (SPX)
Plate tectonics is Earth's vital - and unique - continuous recycling process that directly or indirectly controls almost every function of the planet, including...
Electricity-driven undersea reactions may have been important for the emergence of life
Jul 31, 2019 (SPX)
The minerals often include metal sulfides, such as iron sulfide, also known as pyrite or fool's gold. As they precipitate, these mineral precipitates begin to f...
A voracious Cambrian predator, Cambroraster, is a new species from the Burgess Shale
Jul 31, 2019 (SPX)
Reaching up to a foot in length, the new species, named Cambroraster falcatus, comes from the famous 506-million-year-old Burgess Shale. "Its size would have be...
Shape shifting protocells hint at the mechanics of early life
Jul 31, 2019 (SPX)
In a new study published in the journal Nature Communications, Professor Stephen Mann from Bristol's School of Chemistry, together with colleagues Dr Liangfei T...
Water-air interfaces in rock pores helped spawn life on Earth
Jul 29, 2019 (UPI)
Through a series of lab experiments, scientists in Germany detailed the physical and chemical qualities found among the water-air interfaces located inside the ...
Unusual structures in bacteria suggest photosynthesis older than thought
Jul 25, 2019 (UPI)
Plants, algae and some bacteria perform what's known as oxygenic photosynthesis, splitting water into oxygen and hydrogen to power the process that turns solar ...
Jurassic fossil suggests early mammal ancestors swallowed like modern mammals
Jul 18, 2019 (UPI)
The newly found Jurassic fossil features the earliest known example of the hyoid bones deployed by modern mammals. Hyoid bones connect the back of the mouth to ...
Scientists develop new method for studying early life in ancient rocks
Jul 09, 2019 (SPX)
The method relies on searching for high concentrations of potassium in ancient sedimentary rocks, rather than traditional methods that look for carbon, sulfur, ...
Why is the Earth's F Cl ratio not chondritic?
Jul 02, 2019 (SPX)
In other words, the non-chondritic abundance pattern of elements on the planetary surface is a key to understanding the chemical differentiation processes of te...
A new normal: Study explains universal pattern in fossil record
Jul 01, 2019 (SPX)
Remarkably, extreme events of diversification and extinction happen more frequently than a typical, Gaussian, distribution would predict. Instead of the typical...
Ocean biology experienced dramatic evolutionary shift 170 million years ago
Jul 01, 2019 (UPI)
Prior to the shift, the evolutionary success of marine life forms was dictated primarily by biochemical constraints. Climate and ocean chemistry were the main d...
Lichens thrived, diversified after the dinosaurs died out
Jun 28, 2019 (UPI)
Lichens are composite organisms formed by symbiotic relationships between algae or cyanobacteria and different fungi species. "We thought that lichens would be ...
Some ancient crocodiles were vegetarians
Jun 27, 2019 (UPI)
"The most interesting thing we discovered was how frequently it seems extinct crocodyliforms ate plants," Keegan Melstrom, a doctoral student at the University ...
New study proves some of Earth's oldest animals could take trips
Jun 21, 2019 (SPX)
"This is the first time in the fossil record we see an animal moving to get food," said study lead Scott Evans, a UCR paleontology doctoral candidate. Evans' te...
Fossil teeth show packs of hyenas roamed the ancient Arctic
Jun 18, 2019 (UPI)
In a paper published Tuesday in the journal Open Quaternary, paleontologists described a pair of fossilized teeth belonging to Chasmaporthetes, an extinct genus...
New 'king' of fossils discovered in Australia
Jun 17, 2019 (SPX)
The finding is adding important insights to our knowledge of the Cambrian 'explosion', the greatest diversification event in the history of life on Earth, when ...
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