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Tiny fossils unlock clues to Earth's climate half a billion years ago
May 10, 2018 (SPX)
The research, published in Science Advances, suggests that early animals diversified within a climate similar to that in which the dinosaurs lived. This interva...
Ediacara Biota flourished in bacterially rich marine habitats
May 07, 2018 (SPX)
While fossil impressions from the Ediacaran Era - 635 to 541 million years ago - reveal their existence, little is known about this fascinating group of animal-...
Scientists find the first bird beak, right under their noses
May 03, 2018 (SPX)
Ichthyornis dispar holds a key position in the evolutionary trail that leads from dinosaurian species to today's avians. It lived nearly 100 million years ago i...
Cracking open the formation of fossil concretions
May 03, 2018 (SPX)
Several important questions regarding concretions have long puzzled scientists. What conditions cause them to form? How long do they take to grow? Why do they s...
New evidence that volcanism triggered the late Devonian extinction
May 02, 2018 (SPX)
The team analyzed rocks from Morocco, Germany, and northern Russia, all dating from the same short geologic interval 372 million years ago, just before the Fras...
Ancient footprints tell story of a giant sloth hunt
Apr 26, 2018 (UPI)
At the end of the last ice age, as early humans spread across North America, they set their spears on the continents megafauna, mammoths, boars, wolves, lions a...
ASU team discovers a new take on early evolution of photosynthesis
Apr 25, 2018 (SPX)
Photosynthesis is the process by which plants, algae and some bacteria use the energy from the sun to power their metabolism. Plants and algae use this light en...
Dinosaurs ended - and originated - with a bang!
Apr 22, 2018 (SPX)
But their origins have been less understood. In a new study, scientists from MUSE - Museum of Science, Trento, Italy, Universities of Ferrara and Padova, Italy ...
Plants play greater role than megaherbivore extinctions in changes to ecosystem structure
Apr 22, 2018 (SPX)
Previously, scientists believed that the Late Quaternary extinction event, which took place between ~11,000 and 15,000 years ago across much of northern Europe,...
How does plant DNA avoid the ravages of UV radiation?
Apr 22, 2018 (SPX)
Today, the UNC School of Medicine lab of 2015 Nobel laureate Aziz Sancar, MD, PhD, has published an exquisite study of this powerful DNA repair system in plants...
Marine fish won an evolutionary lottery 66 million years ago
Apr 19, 2018 (SPX)
Slightly more than half of today's fish are "marine fish," meaning they live in oceans. And most marine fish, including tuna, halibut, grouper, sea horses and m...
Studying oxygen, scientists discover clues to recovery from mass extinction
Apr 19, 2018 (SPX)
A research team, led by scientists from Arizona State University and funded by NASA and the National Science Foundation, is helping to understand why this extin...
Study proposes link between formation of supercontinents, strength of ocean tides
Apr 16, 2018 (SPX)
The new research suggests long-term changes in tidal energy, which control the strength of the ocean's waves, are part of a super-tidal cycle dictated by the mo...
Mass extinction paved the way for rise of the dinosaurs
Apr 16, 2018 (UPI)
Decidedly less is known about how the dinosaurs first arrived, or how they quickly came to dominate the planet. New research, however, suggests they benefited f...
UK giant ichthyosaur is one of the largest animals ever
Apr 11, 2018 (SPX)
The new discovery has also solved a 150 year old mystery of supposed 'dinosaur bones' from the UK. The bone belongs to a giant ichthyosaur, a type of prehistori...
Rare Scottish dinosaur prints give key insight into era lost in time
Apr 10, 2018 (SPX)
The tracks were made some 170 million years ago, in a muddy, shallow lagoon in what is now the north-east coast of the Isle of Skye. Most of the prints were mad...
Ancient sea worm eats, poops and leaves behind evidence of Cambrian biodiversity
Apr 09, 2018 (SPX)
The 500-million-year-old poop of a primordial, predatory sea worm tells their story. A new paper appearing in the journal Palaios results from fieldwork Kimmig ...
Research shows first land plants were parasitized by microbes
Apr 06, 2018 (SPX)
Published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a new study shows that aggressive filamentous microbial (fungi-like) pathogens can inv...
Dozens of sauropod footprints found on Scottish coast
Apr 03, 2018 (UPI)
The footprints were left in a shallow, muddy lagoon by sauropods and therapods. The largest prints were left by long-necked sauropods, while the smaller, three-...
Ancient monitor lizard had four eyes
Apr 02, 2018 (UPI)
The two eyes are actually eye-like photosensory structures known as pineal and parapineal organs. Researchers believe the structures helped the lizard maintain ...
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