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New Fossil Find Reveals 506-Million-Year-Old Predator in Burgess Shale
May 14, 2025 (SPX)
Mosura fentoni, the ancient predator, was roughly the size of a human index finger and possessed three eyes, spiny jointed claws, a ring-shaped mouth lined with...
Earth's Core Waves Reveal New Paths for Planetary Exploration
May 12, 2025 (SPX)
ANU seismologists used two 50-by-50-kilometre spiral arrays in Australia to detect PKP waves-seismic core waves created by powerful cyclones in the North Atlant...
Earth's Core Waves Reveal New Paths for Planetary Exploration
May 12, 2025 (SPX)
ANU seismologists used two 50-by-50-kilometre spiral arrays in Australia to detect PKP waves-seismic core waves created by powerful cyclones in the North Atlant...
Missing nitrogen traced to deep Earth core in planetary formation simulations
Apr 14, 2025 (SPX)
During Earth's infancy, the planet was covered by a deep magma ocean. As the planet differentiated, heavy metals descended into the core, while lighter elements...
Early crust study reshapes view of Earth's ancient history
Apr 03, 2025 (SPX)
This revelation implies that the defining chemical composition of continents emerged right at the dawn of Earth's formation. Leading the international team was ...
York U research sheds light on earliest days of Earth's formation
Mar 30, 2025 (SPX)
"This study is the first to demonstrate, using a physical model, that the first-order features of Earth's lower mantle structure were established four billion y...
How survivors spanned the globe after Earth's biggest mass extinction
Mar 30, 2025 (SPX)
What followed was a mysterious, multimillion-year span that could be called the "Great Dulling," when marine animal communities looked remarkably alike all over...
Molecule's fingerprint may help explain formation of life on earth
Mar 24, 2025 (SPX)
German researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics recently discovered a special type of molecule called singly deuterated methyl mer...
Ivory Coast's epochal prehistoric finds pass unseen
Mar 18, 2025 (AFP)
Near the local storefronts lies the site of an excavation that unearthed stone tools from 150,000 years ago -- the earliest sign ever of humans inhabiting a tro...
'Microlightning' in water droplets may have sparked life on Earth
Mar 17, 2025 (SPX)
New research from Stanford University shows that water sprayed into a mixture of gases thought to be present in Earth's early atmosphere can lead to the formati...
Nearby Supernovae Linked to Two Ancient Earth Extinctions
Mar 13, 2025 (SPX)
The study implicates supernovae in both the late Devonian and Ordovician extinction events, which occurred approximately 372 million and 445 million years ago, ...
Anomaly in Deep Sea Sediments May Serve as Geological Time Marker
Feb 12, 2025 (SPX)
Radionuclides, which decay into other elements over time, are commonly used for dating archaeological and geological samples. Radiocarbon dating, for example, r...
How life's building blocks formed on early Earth examined through polyester protocell formation limits
Feb 10, 2025 (SPX)
The research, spearheaded by Mahendran Sithamparam of the Space Science Center (ANGKASA) at the Institute of Climate Change, National University of Malaysia, wa...
Meteorite findings reshape theories on Earth's missing elements
Feb 06, 2025 (SPX)
Conducted by ASU Assistant Professor Damanveer Grewal, alongside researchers from Caltech, Rice University, and MIT, the study examines the distribution of mode...
Research Shows Impact of 'Super-Earth' on Solar System
Jan 15, 2025 (SPX)
Simpson's paper, "How might a planet between Mars and Jupiter influence the inner solar system? effects on orbital motion, obliquity, and eccentricity," was pub...
Dinosaurs emerged in the northern hemisphere millions of years earlier
Jan 10, 2025 (SPX)
Ahvaytum bahndooiveche's fossils were unearthed in Wyoming, part of the ancient supercontinent Laurasia. Radiometric dating indicates the dinosaur lived approxi...
Study uncovers ancient predator-prey rivalry in Cambrian seas
Jan 06, 2025 (SPX)
"Predator-prey interactions are often touted as a major driver of the Cambrian explosion, especially with regard to the rapid increase in diversity and abundanc...
Virginia Tech research unveils a new timeline of life stretching back 1.5 billion years
Dec 26, 2024 (SPX)
Traditional fossilized skeletons and shells have long chronicled evolutionary and extinction events over the past 500 million years. However, this new chart pus...
Massive eruptions did not trigger dinosaur extinction
Dec 20, 2024 (SPX)
For decades, scientists have debated whether the dramatic lava flows on the Indian continent - occurring before and after the meteorite impact - contributed to ...
Fossil discovery reveals oldest known saber-toothed predator
Dec 18, 2024 (SPX)
Therapsids, the group to which mammals belong, first appeared roughly 200 million years ago, but their lineage dates back much further. Gorgonopsians, a subgrou...
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