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Dinosaur faces and feet may have popped with color
Dec 10, 2021 (SPX)
There's a good chance that extinct dinosaurs rocked pops of color on similar body parts and may have flashed their colors to entice mates, just as birds do toda...
Dinosaurs and amber: a new window to the Cretaceous world from 110 million years ago
Dec 10, 2021 (SPX)
This is one of the main contributions of a paper published in the journal eLife which counts on the participation of members of the Faculty of Earth Sciences of...
Fleshing out the bones of Quetzalcoatlus, Earth's largest flier ever
Dec 09, 2021 (SPX)
But 70 million years ago, along the Rio Grande River in Texas, a more impressive and scarier creature stalked the marshes: the 12-foot-tall pterosaur known as Q...
Australian researchers find 100 million-year-old fossil in Queensland
Dec 07, 2021 (UPI)
The researchers from the Queensland Museum Network said the ancient plesiosaur was discovered in the remote McKinley region and said it could help unlock other ...
Bringing 400-million-year-old fossilized armored worms to 'virtual' life
Dec 02, 2021 (SPX)
Then, using the micro-CT imaging capabilities of the MU X-ray Microanalysis Core facility, the researchers were able to develop first-of-its-kind digital 3D-mod...
A rocky fate for greenhouse gases
Dec 01, 2021 (SPX)
One of the primary drivers of anthropogenic climate change is the overabundance of carbon dioxide (CO2) gas in the atmosphere from the burning of fossil fuels. ...
Scientists identify new force behind past mass extinction event
Nov 18, 2021 (SPX)
The research, which appears in the journal Science Advances, examined the end-Permian mass extinction (EPME), which was the most severe extinction event in the ...
The oldest mineralized sponges in the world found in Ciudad Real
Nov 18, 2021 (SPX)
These deposits were described for the first time some 50 years ago, but had not been studied in detail until now. Spicules were discovered among the fossil rema...
Researchers puncture explanation for largest increase of biodiversity in Earth's history
Nov 11, 2021 (SPX)
But suddenly, something happened that became crucial for life to develop towards the life we know from today's oceans. Marine biodiversity quadrupled in a few m...
Researchers discover first dinosaur species that lived on Greenland 214 million years ago
Nov 09, 2021 (SPX)
The initial remains of the dinosaur - two well-preserved skulls - were first unearthed in 1994 during an excavation in East Greenland by palaeontologists from H...
Radiocarbon is key to understanding Earth's past
Nov 08, 2021 (SPX)
In an article published in the journal Science, scientists have highlighted how recent advances in our knowledge of past radiocarbon levels are improving our un...
On ancient Earth, it never rained but it poured
Nov 04, 2021 (SPX)
Little is known about how the atmosphere and climate behaved during these so-called hothouse periods. In a new study, researchers from Harvard University found ...
Uncovering the secrets behind Earth's first major mass extinction
Nov 02, 2021 (SPX)
Discovering the root cause of Earth's mass extinctions has long been a hot topic for scientists, as understanding the environmental conditions that led to the e...
Tiny pterosaurs dominated Cretaceous skies
Oct 28, 2021 (SPX)
Pterosaurs were the flying cousins of dinosaurs - some were as large as a Spitfire fighter plane and others as small as a thrush. During the Triassic and Jurass...
Some of the world's oldest rubies linked to early life
Oct 26, 2021 (SPX)
The research team, led by Chris Yakymchuk, professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Waterloo, set out to study the geology of rubies to better understan...
Dinosaurs may have lived in social herds as early as 193 million years ago
Oct 25, 2021 (SPX)
In a paper appearing in Scientific Reports, researchers from MIT, Argentina, and South Africa detail their discovery of an exceptionally preserved group of earl...
Dinosaurs may have lived in 'social' herds 193 million years ago
Oct 21, 2021 (UPI)
The results, based on dating of sediments found among a discovery of fossils, suggest the dinosaur herd dates back to the early Jurassic period, the earliest ev...
Zeroing in on the origins of Earth's single most important evolutionary innovation
Oct 01, 2021 (SPX)
This evolutionary moment made it possible for oxygen to eventually accumulate in the atmosphere and oceans, setting off a domino effect of diversification and s...
A bigger nursery for the solar system's first formed solids
Oct 01, 2021 (SPX)
By studying isotopic variations of the elements vanadium (V) and strontium (Sr), an international team of researchers including scientists from Lawrence Livermo...
Primordial 'hyper-eye' discovered
Oct 01, 2021 (SPX)
In addition to the hyper-facetted eyes, the researchers, led by zoologist Dr. Brigitte Schoenemann at the University of Cologne's Institute for Didactics of Bio...
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