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Cooler waters created super-sized Megalodon, latest study shows
Mar 08, 2022 (SPX)
DePaul University paleobiology professor Kenshu Shimada and coauthors take a renewed look through time and space at the body size patterns of Otodus megalodon, ...
New technique unlocks ancient history of Earth from grains of sand
Mar 02, 2022 (SPX)
Lead researcher Dr Milo Barham, from the Timescales of Mineral Systems Group within Curtin's School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, said the team devised a met...
Three critical factors in the end-Permian mass extinction
Mar 02, 2022 (SPX)
By analyzing how the now-extinct marine organisms once lived, Dr. Foster and his team were able to directly link their extinction to the following climate chang...
Balkanatolia: the forgotten continent that sheds light on the evolution of mammals
Feb 23, 2022 (SPX)
For millions of years during the Eocene Epoch (55 to 34 million years ago), Western Europe and Eastern Asia formed two distinct land masses with very different ...
Division of labor in ants goes back over 100 million years
Feb 23, 2022 (SPX)
Winged females take on the role of the queen, while wingless, infertile females perform the tasks of the workers. But when exactly in their evolution did ants s...
Scientists discover how plants evolved to colonize land over 500-million years ago
Feb 17, 2022 (SPX)
Over the last 500-million years, the evolution of land plants has supported the diversity of life on an increasingly green planet. Throughout their evolution, p...
Tilting of Earth's crust governed the flow of ancient megafloods
Feb 17, 2022 (SPX)
In a study published February 14 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers showed how the changing weight of the ice sheets would have cau...
New research bites holes into theories about Megalodons
Feb 08, 2022 (SPX)
The study, which makes use of a pioneering technique for analyzing sharks, has now been published in the international journal Historical Biology. Megalodons sw...
Supermountains controlled the evolution of life on Earth
Feb 04, 2022 (SPX)
The researchers tracked the formation of these supermountains throughout Earth's history using traces of zircon with low lutetium content - a combination of min...
New research links continents to key transitions in Earth's oceans, atmosphere and climate
Feb 03, 2022 (SPX)
The team of researchers analyzed a global database of the chemistry of tiny zircon grains commonly found in the Earth's continental rock record. The research te...
Low volcanic temperature ushered in global cooling and the thriving of dinosaurs
Feb 02, 2022 (SPX)
Large volcanic eruptions create climatic fluctuations, ushering in evolutionary changes. Yet it is the volcanic temperature of the eruption that determines whet...
Study probes Earth's turbulent past to explain where oceans came from
Jan 26, 2022 (SPX)
Besides being the all-important substance for the origin of life as we know it, surface water is important for stabilizing a planet's climate over long periods ...
Study reveals more hostile conditions on Earth as life evolved?
Jan 06, 2022 (SPX)
Using a state-of-the-art climate model, researchers now believe the level of ultraviolet (UV) radiation reaching the Earth's surface could have been underestima...
New research questions 'whiff of oxygen' in Earth's early history
Jan 06, 2022 (SPX)
The result rewinds previous research findings that atmospheric oxygen existed prior to the so-called Great Oxygenation Event-known to researchers as "GOE"- and ...
Earth's first giant
Jan 01, 2022 (SPX)
While dinosaurs ruled the land, ichthyosaurs and other aquatic reptiles (that were emphatically not dinosaurs) ruled the waves, reaching similarly gargantuan si...
Earth and Mars were formed from inner Solar System material
Dec 28, 2021 (SPX)
They present the most comprehensive comparison to date of the isotopic composition of Earth, Mars and pristine building material from the inner and outer Solar ...
Perfectly preserved dinosaur embryo was preparing to hatch like a bird
Dec 21, 2021 (AFP)
The fossil was discovered in Ganzhou, southern China and belonged to a toothless theropod dinosaur, or oviraptorosaur, which the researchers dubbed "Baby Yingli...
Deadliest period in Earth's history was also the stinkiest
Dec 21, 2021 (SPX)
Until now, scientists could not explain exactly how the heat caused those deaths. A new UC Riverside-led study in Nature Geoscience shows that the heat accelera...
Prehistoric marine reptiles reproduced in Nevada, leaving behind fossil bed
Dec 19, 2021 (UPI)
The Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park is filled with the fossils of the ichthyosaur, one of the largest marine reptiles to ever inhabit the planet. Nick Pyenson, cu...
New research explains Earth's peculiar chemical composition
Dec 15, 2021 (SPX)
These volatile elements are major components of the atmosphere and oceans and key elements for life; thus, understanding the origin of Earth's volatile composit...
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