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Major North American oil source yields clues to one of earth's deadliest mass extinctions
Mar 09, 2023 (SPX)
A research team, which included geologists from the University of Maryland, George Mason University and the Norwegian oil and gas company Equinor, developed a n...
Mineral particles and their role in oxygenating the Earth's atmosphere
Mar 07, 2023 (SPX)
Up to now, scientists have argued that oxygen levels rose as the result of photosynthesis by algae and plants in the sea, where oxygen was produced as a by-prod...
Large-scale fossil study reveals origins of modern-day biodiversity gradient 15 million years ago
Feb 27, 2023 (SPX)
It has long been known that in both marine and terrestrial systems species (including animals, plants, and single-celled organisms) show a 'latitudinal diversit...
Early Cretaceous shift in the global carbon cycle affected both land and sea
Feb 23, 2023 (SPX)
Scientific research in recent decades has confirmed that major changes in the global carbon cycle caused significant changes in the Earth's atmosphere and ocean...
Dinosaur print found in England belonged to 'Megalosaurus-like Theropod'
Feb 16, 2023 (UPI)
The print was discovered by local archeologist Marie Woods, a co-author of Thursday's report, while she explored the area. It was determined that the print was ...
Fossil discovery reveals complex ecosystems existed on Earth much earlier than previously thought
Feb 10, 2023 (SPX)
A fossilized ocean ecosystem Until now, scientists have long theorized that scorching hot ocean conditions resulting from catastrophic climate change prevented ...
Ancient fossilized fruit was ancestor of coffee and potatoes and survived the dinosaurs
Feb 08, 2023 (SPX)
Brian Atkinson, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Kansas and curator of paleobotany at the KU Biodiversity Institute,...
Fossilized 319-million-year-old fish illuminates backboned animals' brain evolution
Feb 03, 2023 (SPX)
Researchers at the University of Birmingham (UK) and the University of Michigan (USA) believe that the discovery opens a window into the neural anatomy and earl...
Ancient fossils shed new light on evolution of sea worm
Feb 01, 2023 (SPX)
Researchers at Durham University, UK, and Northwest University, Xi'an, China, examined 15 exceptionally preserved fossils of the annelid worm Iotuba chengjiange...
Meteorites reveal likely origin of Earth's volatile chemicals
Jan 27, 2023 (SPX)
They found that around half the Earth's inventory of the volatile element zinc came from asteroids originating in the outer Solar System - the part beyond the a...
Mercury helps to detail Earth's most massive extinction event
Jan 27, 2023 (SPX)
An international team of scientists, including UConn Department of Earth Sciences researchers Professor and Department Head Tracy Frank and Professor Christophe...
Two studies of volatile elements discovered in meteorites constrain the assembly of Earth
Jan 27, 2023 (SPX)
Nucleosynthetic anomalies are small differences in the isotope ratios of chemical elements, produced when those elements formed. During the formation of the Sol...
New geosciences study shows Triassic fossils that reveal origins of living amphibians
Jan 26, 2023 (SPX)
A team of paleontologists from Virginia Tech and the U.S. Petrified Forest National Park, among others, have discovered the first "unmistakable" Triassic-era ca...
Fossils reveal dinosaurs of prehistoric Patagonia
Jan 13, 2023 (SPX)
The fossils represent the first record of theropods - a dinosaur group that includes both modern birds and their closest non-avian dinosaur relatives - from the...
Fossil pollen 'sunscreen' proves role of ozone depletion in largest mass extinction
Jan 09, 2023 (SPX)
The presence of these compounds suggests that a pulse of UV-B played an essential role in the end-Permian mass extinction event. The end-Permian mass extinction...
New discovery of sunscreen-like chemicals in fossil plants reveals UV radiation played a part in mass extinction events
Jan 09, 2023 (SPX)
Scientists from the University of Nottingham, China, Germany and the UK led by Professor Liu Feng from Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology have devel...
Early forests did not significantly change the atmospheric CO2
Dec 22, 2022 (SPX)
The research has been led by the University of Copenhagen in collaboration with the University of Nottingham and alters 30 years of previous understanding. The ...
Fossil offers ultra rare piece of evidence showing a dinosaur eating a mammal
Dec 22, 2022 (SPX)
It's extremely rare to find conclusive evidence of a dinosaur's diet because of how difficult it is for a dinosaur's gut contents to be preserved, says Corwin S...
Mammals island-hopped from Australia to colonise the world
Dec 20, 2022 (SPX)
Professor Flannery, Honorary Associate, Australian Museum, said that for almost 200 years it has been believed that the placental mammals, and the related marsu...
Changes in Earth's orbit may have triggered ancient warming event
Dec 14, 2022 (SPX)
"The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum is the closest thing we have in the geologic record to anything like what we're experiencing now and may experience in the...
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