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Print a 200-million-year-old dinosaur fossil in your own home
Jan 15, 2018 (SPX)
Kimi Chapelle, a PhD student at the Evolutionary Studies Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa (Wits), has used the Wit...
Earliest fossil evidence of butterflies and moths
Jan 12, 2018 (SPX)
To make their discoveries, T.J.B. van Eldijk and colleagues analyzed about 70 wing scales and scale fragments from a drilled core in northern Germany, which dat...
Giant extinct burrowing bat discovered in New Zealand
Jan 11, 2018 (SPX)
Teeth and bones of the extinct bat - which was about three times the size of an average bat today - were recovered from 19 to 16-million-year-old sediments near...
Moths and butterflies existed during Jurassic era long before flowering plants
Jan 11, 2018 (SPX)
The slides of rock samples drilled in the German countryside included some material that looked familiar to Strother, a Department of Earth and Environmental Sc...
An adaptation 150 million years in the making
Jan 04, 2018 (SPX)
"All we've known until now is the endpoint of these super snapping claws," said Rich Palmer, biological science professor at the University of Alberta and senio...
A 508-million-year-old sea predator with a 'jackknife' head
Dec 28, 2017 (SPX)
The research by lead author Cedric Aria, recent graduate of the PhD program in the department of ecology and evolutionary biology in the Faculty of Arts and Sci...
Giant marine reptile lived in Antarctic 150 million years ago: scientists
Dec 22, 2017 (AFP)
The four-finned reptile, which measured up to 12 meters (13 yards) long, dates from the late Jurassic period and is the most ancient creature ever discovered on...
Half-billion-year-old microscopic animal fossils found in Greenland
Dec 22, 2017 (UPI)
The microscopic organisms date to more than half a billion years ago, offering new insights into the Cambrian Explosion, a dramatic increase in the planet's bio...
New research improves understanding of ancient landscapes
Dec 14, 2017 (SPX)
A new study led by The University of Texas at Austin Jackson School of Geosciences suggests that scientists may be able to better leverage zircon data to unders...
How much can 252-million-year-old ecosystems tell us about modern Earth? A lot
Dec 14, 2017 (SPX)
Here, you could find some of the first tetrapods to emerge from the water and live on land, living right next to newly evolved, dinosaur and crocodile-like rept...
Inner ears of ancient, extinct sea monsters mirror those of today's animals
Dec 11, 2017 (SPX)
A new study by a team of international experts, led by Dr James Neenan, a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Evolutionary Studies Institute at Wits University in South ...
530-million-year-old fossil has look of world's oldest eye, study suggests
Dec 11, 2017 (SPX)
The remains of an extinct sea creature include an early form of the eye seen in many of today's animals, including crabs, bees and dragonflies, researchers say....
Nuclear technology helps scientists study Australia's prehistoric ecosystems
Dec 11, 2017 (UPI)
Researchers at Monash University used magnetic resonance to analyze several amber fossils, dated between 52 and 40 million years old. The golden-hued nuggets ca...
530 million-year-old fossil is likely world's oldest eye
Dec 07, 2017 (UPI)
The 530 million-year-old fossil eye belonged to an ancient extinct sea creature named Schmidtiellus reetae. The eye looks like an early version of the type of e...
Early avian evolution: The Archaeopteryx that wasn't
Dec 07, 2017 (SPX)
Even 150 million years after its first appearance on our planet, Archaeopteryx is still good for surprises. The so-called Urvogel has attained an iconic status ...
Meteorite analysis shows reduced salt is key in Earth's new recipe
Dec 06, 2017 (SPX)
The research was carried out by international team of researchers, led by the Universities of Manchester and Oxford, and has recently been published in Nature. ...
Trickle-down is the solution to the planetary core formation problem
Dec 05, 2017 (SPX)
The finding calls into question the interpretation of prior experiments and simulations that sought to understand how metals behave under intense heat and press...
Collisions After Moon Formation Remodeled Early Earth
Dec 05, 2017 (SPX)
Early in its evolution, Earth sustained an impact with another large object, and the Moon formed from the resulting debris ejected into an Earth-orbiting disk. ...
Evolution: In the beginning there was the sponge
Dec 05, 2017 (SPX)
Which came first - the sponges or the comb jellies? The consensus view among taxonomists has long been that the sponges (Porifera) represent the oldest survivin...
Feathered dinosaurs were extra fluffy, new research shows
Nov 30, 2017 (UPI)
Modern birds are the evolutionary offspring of a group of feathered theropod dinosaurs. Together they comprise the group known as paravians -- a group that incl...
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