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Fossil teeth show how Jurassic reptiles adapted to changing seas
Sep 11, 2018 (SPX)
A study of fossilised teeth has shed light on how reptiles adapted to major environmental changes more than 150 million years ago, and how sea life might respon...
Chinese fossils reveal middle-late Triassic insect radiation
Sep 07, 2018 (SPX)
This study confirms that holometabolous and aquatic insects experienced extraordinary diversification about 237 million years ago. The research was published in...
Evolutionary origins of animal biodiversity
Sep 06, 2018 (SPX)
Animals evolved from unicellular ancestors, diversifying into thirty or forty distinct anatomical designs. When and how these designs emerged has been the focus...
Mammal forerunner that reproduced like a reptile sheds light on brain evolution
Sep 04, 2018 (SPX)
The find is among the rarest of the rare because it contains the only known fossils of babies from any mammal precursor, said researchers from The University of...
Discovery of two new Chinese dinosaurs by international research team
Aug 30, 2018 (SPX)
The dinosaurs are both alvarezsaurs, an enigmatic group of theropod [meat-eating] dinosaurs, which have many similarities with birds and which show adaptations ...
Fossil turtle didn't have a shell yet, but had the first toothless turtle beak
Aug 29, 2018 (SPX)
"This creature was over six feet long, it had a strange disc-like body and a long tail, and the anterior part of its jaws developed into this strange beak," say...
How did alvarezsaurian dinosaurs evolve monodactyl hand?
Aug 29, 2018 (SPX)
The new dinosaurs are based on two fossils collected by a joint research team led by XU Xing from the Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropolo...
Laughing gas may have prevented Earth's oceans from freezing over
Aug 28, 2018 (UPI)
Jennifer Glass, an assistant professor at Georgia Tech, doesn't care for the term Boring Billion. "Earth was a dynamic place during this period," Glass told UPI...
Geologists uncover new clues about largest mass extinction ever
Aug 28, 2018 (SPX)
The event, also known as the Great Dying, occurred around 250 million years ago when a massive volcanic eruption in what is today the Russian province of Siberi...
Laughing gas may have helped warm early Earth and given breath to life
Aug 24, 2018 (SPX)
A new study led by the Georgia Institute of Technology suggests that nitrous oxide, known for its use as the dental sedative laughing gas, may have played a sig...
A timescale for the origin and evolution of all of life on Earth
Aug 24, 2018 (SPX)
However, the fossil record of early life is extremely fragmented, and its quality significantly deteriorates further back in time towards the Archaean period, m...
Microfossils, possibly world's oldest, had biological characteristics
Aug 23, 2018 (SPX)
A team of scientists, led by Dr Julien Alleon (IMPMC, Paris, France; and MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA) have been able to show that the chemical residuals from ancien...
Amber fossils illuminate early antlion evolution
Aug 22, 2018 (UPI)
Because the larvae of antlions and their relatives fail to fossilize outside amber inclusions, the fossil record is limited. The newly surveyed Burmese amber fo...
Earth's earliest animals were strange sea creatures millions of centuries ago
Aug 21, 2018 (UPI)
The new study -- published this month in the journal Paleontology -- proves members of the Ediacaran biota are indeed animals and were diversifying for several ...
Meteorite bombardment likely to have created the Earth's oldest rocks
Aug 14, 2018 (SPX)
The high temperatures needed to melt the shallow crust were likely caused by a meteorite bombardment around half a billion years after the planet formed. This m...
Earth now and 2.5 billion years ago: New study of air helps understanding both
Aug 10, 2018 (SPX)
"For the origin of life on Earth, perhaps one of the most important questions is how it started and evolved," said lead author Mark H. Thiemens, the Distinguish...
Corals and algae go back further than previously thought, all the way to Jurassic Period
Aug 10, 2018 (SPX)
The findings, published in Current Biology, are a key advance toward a better understanding of coral reefs, the Earth's largest and most significant structures ...
There and back again: Mantle xenon has a story to tell
Aug 10, 2018 (SPX)
This transport could not have begun much before 2.5 billion years ago, according to new research by Washington University in St. Louis, published in the August ...
Teeth of ancient mega-shark recovered from Australian beach
Aug 09, 2018 (UPI)
The discovery was first made by amateur fossil enthusiast Philip Mullaly. "I was walking along the beach looking for fossils, turned and saw this shining glint ...
Iron-silica particles unlock part of the mystery of Earth's oxygenation
Aug 08, 2018 (SPX)
Early organisms called cyanobacteria produced oxygen through oxygenic photosynthesis, resulting in the oxygenation of Earth's atmosphere. But cyanobacteria need...
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