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Giant trilobite fossil found on Australia's Kangaroo Island
Jun 13, 2019 (UPI)
Though now extinct, trilobites were one of the most successful animal groups in evolutionary history. The horseshoe crab-like creatures boasted hard, calcified ...
Pterodactyls were born with the ability to fly
Jun 12, 2019 (UPI)
According to a new study published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, pterodactyls were physiologically mature by the time ...
Feathers preceded birds by 100 million years
Jun 03, 2019 (UPI)
Using new data in the fields of palaeontology and molecular developmental biology, scientists were able to clarify the evolutionary relationships among dinosaur...
One billion year old fungi found is Earth's oldest
May 22, 2019 (AFP)
For decades, the earliest known fungi -- organisms such as mushrooms, mould and yeast -- was thought to have appeared on earth around half a billion years ago. ...
Research reveals surprisingly powerful bite of tiny early tetrapod
May 10, 2019 (SPX)
Detailed scans of Acherontiscus caledoniae showed a unique combination of different tooth shapes and sizes as well as a deep lower jaw which scientists believe ...
Early marine reptiles used pebble-like teeth to crush shellfish
May 08, 2019 (UPI)
Roughly 252 million years ago, the end-Permian Mass extinction wiped out 90 percent of the planet's marine species and 70 percent of terrestrial species. Ichthy...
Oxygen linked with the boom and bust of early animal evolution
May 08, 2019 (SPX)
The Cambrian explosion was a crucial period of rapid evolution in complex animals that began roughly 540 million years ago. The trigger for this fundamental pha...
New 3-foot-tall relative of Tyrannosaurus rex
May 08, 2019 (SPX)
The newly named tyrannosauroid dinosaur - Suskityrannus hazelae - stood rougly 3 feet tall at the hip and was about 9 feet in length, the entire animal only mar...
Running may have made dinosaurs' wings flap before they evolved to fly
May 07, 2019 (SPX)
The findings, published in PLOS Computational Biology, provide new insights into the origin of avian flight, which has been a point of debate since the 1861 dis...
Miniature relative of T. rex identified by paleontologists in New Mexico
May 07, 2019 (UPI)
The dinosaur remains were originally found by 16-year-old Sterling Nesbit during a dig in New Mexico in 1998. Twenty years later, Nesbit, now an assistant profe...
Fluctuating oxygen caused evolutionary surges during Cambrian period
May 06, 2019 (UPI)
But according to a new study, the evolutionary gas pedal wasn't on the floor during the entirety of the period. There were periods of accelerated speciation, as...
New study sheds light on the rise of mammals
May 02, 2019 (SPX)
Previously, mammals in the Age of Dinosaurs were thought to be a relatively small part of their ecosystems and considered to be small-bodied, nocturnal, ground-...
Ancient relative of the blue-tongued skink found in Australia
May 01, 2019 (UPI)
Analysis of the remains -- the most complete lizard fossil yet discovered in Australia -- suggests the 15-million-year-old reptile was remarkably similar to mod...
The giant virus and the emergence of complex life
May 01, 2019 (SPX)
A team of scientists led by virologist Masaharu Takemura at Tokyo University of Science and Hiroyuki Ogata at Kyoto University in Japan have discovered a giant ...
Fossil crab reveals a new branch in the tree of life
Apr 30, 2019 (SPX)
"This new discovery is one of the most exciting fossil findings in the tropics in the past decade," said Javier Luque, former predoctoral fellow in staff scient...
Study: Microbes could influence Earth's geological processes as much as volcanoes
Apr 29, 2019 (SPX)
"We usually think of geology as something that happens independently of life, and life just adjusts to the geology," said Karen Lloyd, associate professor of mi...
Dinosaur-era crab fossil reveals new branch in the tree of life
Apr 25, 2019 (UPI)
The dinosaur-era crab, which lived between 90 and 95 million years ago, is unlike a modern crab. According to scientists with the Smithsonian Tropical Research ...
Fish that outlived dinosaurs reveals secrets of ancient skull evolution
Apr 23, 2019 (SPX)
Coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae) is so rare it was thought to have gone extinct with dinosaurs over 65 million years ago. But the discovery of a living specimen...
New evidence suggests volcanoes caused biggest mass extinction ever
Apr 16, 2019 (SPX)
The extinction 252 million years ago was so dramatic and widespread that scientists call it "the Great Dying." The catastrophe killed off more than 95 percent o...
New research supports volcanic origin of Kiruna-type iron ores
Apr 15, 2019 (SPX)
Despite globally increasing demand for rare metals, iron is the overall most important metal for modern industry. Over 90 % of Europe's total iron production co...
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