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Ancient landslide destroyed area size of Cincinnati
Sep 06, 2022 (SPX)
UC College of Arts and Sciences graduate Nick Ferry and UC assistant professor of geology Daniel Sturmer pieced together details of the Blue Diamond landslide, ...
Comet impacts formed continents when Solar System entered galactic arms
Aug 30, 2022 (SPX)
The new research, published in Geology, challenges the existing theory that Earth's crust was solely formed by processes inside our planet, casting a new light ...
Crucial evidence explains anomalously fast convergence between India and Asia in Mesozoic
Aug 30, 2022 (SPX)
Double subduction of the Neo-Tethys Ocean is a leading model in interpreting this anomalous convergence speed. But no compelling evidence from the entire Himala...
Drought uncovers dinosaur tracks in US park
Aug 23, 2022 (AFP)
Photos posted on Facebook show three-toed footprints leading down a dry tree-lined riverbed in the southern US state. It is "one of the longest dinosaur trackwa...
Sponge 'sneezes' waste
Aug 11, 2022 (SPX)
Dating back over 650 million years ago sponges are among the oldest animals on the planet. They may come across as simple creatures, but sponges fulfil a crucia...
How did Earth avoid a Mars-like fate? Ancient rocks hold clues
Jul 26, 2022 (SPX)
About 565 million years ago, however, the magnetic field's strength decreased to 10 percent of its strength today. Then, mysteriously, the field bounced back, r...
Trilobites' growth may have resembled that of modern marine crustaceans
Jul 26, 2022 (SPX)
In a paper published in the journal Paleobiology, researchers from the University of British Columbia and Uppsala University show that the Ordovician trilobite ...
Ancient fossilized brains of stanleycaris prompts rethink on evolution of insects
Jul 14, 2022 (SPX)
These findings shed light on the evolution of the arthropod brain, vision, and head structure. The results were announced in the paper, "A three-eyed radiodont ...
Feathery insulation helped dinosaurs survive and thrive: Study
Jul 14, 2022 (SPX)
Now a new study led by researchers from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGPAS) and Columbia University a...
New insights into the Earth's formation
Jul 12, 2022 (SPX)
An inexplicable discrepancy "The prevailing theory in astrophysics and cosmochemistry is that the Earth formed from chondritic asteroids. These are relatively s...
How placentas evolved in mammals
Jul 06, 2022 (SPX)
In a new study, scientists use gene expression patterns, called transcriptomics, to investigate the ancient origins of one organ: the placenta, which is vital t...
Wildfires may have sparked ecosystem collapse during Earth's worst mass extinction
Jul 01, 2022 (SPX)
Promoted by rapid greenhouse gas emissions from volcanoes, extreme warming and drying led to wildfires across vast regions that were previously permanently wet....
Which rules evolutionary change: Life or climate
Jul 01, 2022 (SPX)
To explain this macroevolution, scientists have used two opposing theories: the Red Queen versus the Court Jester theory, inspired by the story Alice in Wonderl...
Cataloging the diverse origins of Earth's minerals
Jul 01, 2022 (SPX)
In twin papers published by American Mineralogist and sponsored in part by NASA, Carnegie scientists Robert Hazen and Shaunna Morrison detail a novel approach t...
Shrimps and worms among first animals to recover after largest mass extinction
Jun 30, 2022 (SPX)
In a new study, published in the journal Science Advances, researchers from China, the USA and the UK, reveal how life in the sea recovered from the event, whic...
How did vertebrates first evolve jaws?
Jun 29, 2022 (SPX)
In the studies, Mathi Thiruppathy from Gage Crump's laboratory at USC, and collaborator J. Andrew Gillis from the University of Cambridge and the Marine Biologi...
What did Megalodon eat? Anything it wanted - including other predators
Jun 23, 2022 (SPX)
Megatooth sharks get their name from their massive teeth, which can each be bigger than a human hand. The group includes Megalodon, the largest shark that ever ...
The greening ashore
Jun 21, 2022 (SPX)
It took several hundred million years after the formation of Earth some 4 0.5 billion years ago for the initially fiery globe to cool down, allowing the first o...
Researchers reveal new mechanism of end-permian terrestrial mass extinction
Jun 21, 2022 (SPX)
Researchers led by Dr. LI Menghan from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) conducted a S-isotopic study on EPE in the Sydney Basin, and fou...
New insights into the interaction of ocean, continent and atmosphere 2.7 billion years ago
Jun 14, 2022 (SPX)
The Temagami BIF rock formation provides clues to answering these questions. The abbreviation BIF stands for Banded Iron Formation and refers to sedimentary roc...
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