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Heavy bombardment experienced by the planets in the early Solar System
Oct 01, 2021 (SPX)
As such, this observation also provides important insights into the early development of our Earth. This is the conclusion reached by an international research ...
Sands of Isle of Wight yield two new Spinosaurus relatives
Sep 29, 2021 (UPI)
The remains, detailed Wednesday in the journal Scientific Reports, were initially discovered by local fossil-hunters on the beaches of Brighton. The complete ex...
Australia's skies ruled by eagle-like raptor 25 million years ago
Sep 27, 2021 (UPI)
Researchers found the remains of the ancient bird of prey on a remote cattle ranch in the Outback. The 25-million-year-old raptor bones -- detailed Monday in th...
New Zealand schoolchildren discover new species of giant penguin
Sep 16, 2021 (UPI)
Researchers described the novel species of giant penguin in a new paper, published Thursday in the Journal of Vertebrate Evolution. After the fossil penguin's d...
Paleontologists find massive half-billion-year-old fossil species in Canadian Rockies
Sep 08, 2021 (UPI)
The fossil remains were uncovered from the Burgess Shale deposit found throughout Canada's Kootenay National Park. Scientists described the new species, Titanok...
When land rises, bird and mammal evolution speeds up
Sep 02, 2021 (UPI)
The study, published Thursday in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution, is one of the first to investigate the links between elevation change and speciation ...
Tipping points in Earth's system triggered rapid climate change 55 million years ago
Sep 01, 2021 (SPX)
Although previous studies have suggested volcanic activity contributed to the vast CO2 emissions that drove the rapid climate change, the trigger for event is l...
The dawn of modern reptiles
Aug 26, 2021 (SPX)
Their lineages are older than dinosaurs having originated and diverged from each other at some point around 260 million years ago. However, the early phase of l...
How the first roots developed more than 400 million years ago
Aug 26, 2021 (SPX)
The findings demonstrate that the appearance of different axis types at branching points resulted in the evolution complexity soon after land plants evolved som...
The giant jurassic dinosaur Allosaurus was a scavenger, not a predator
Aug 25, 2021 (SPX)
Allosaurus were contemporary in time and space with some of the largest herbivorous dinosaurs ever recorded. These would have included well-known dinosaurs such...
Volcanism drove rapid ocean deoxygenation during the time of the dinosaurs
Aug 24, 2021 (SPX)
The research from University of British Columbia (UBC) and University of Hong Kong (HKU) Earth scientists paints a new picture of severe ocean deoxygenation eve...
Sustained fast rates of evolution explain how tetrapods evolved from fish
Aug 24, 2021 (SPX)
This "fish-to-tetrapod" transition took place somewhere between the Middle and Late Devonian (~400-360 million years ago) and represents the onset of a major en...
New fossils show what the ancestral brains of arthropods looked like
Aug 23, 2021 (SPX)
The fossils, belonging to an arthropod known as Leanchoilia, confirm the presence - predicted by earlier studies in genetics and developmental biology of insect...
Hobbit creature suggests rapid evolution of mammals after dinosaur extinction
Aug 19, 2021 (SPX)
These prehistoric mammals roamed North America during the earliest Paleocene Epoch, within just a few hundred thousand years of the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundar...
Scientists believe second asteroid may have contributed to dinosaur extinction
Aug 18, 2021 (UPI)
Researchers discovered evidence of an asteroid impact crater on the floor of the North Atlantic Ocean, outlined in the journal Science Advances on Wednesday. Na...
Shark diversity unaffected when the dinosaurs were wiped out
Aug 11, 2021 (SPX)
The researchers analysed the morphology of 1239 fossil shark teeth, including species in eight existing orders and one now-extinct order. The teeth span a 27-mi...
The rise of oxygen on early Earth linked to changing planetary rotation rate
Aug 03, 2021 (SPX)
Now an international research team is proposing that increasing day length on the early Earth-the spinning of the young planet gradually slowed over time, makin...
Bird brains left other dinosaurs behind
Aug 03, 2021 (SPX)
Research on a newly discovered bird fossil led by The University of Texas at Austin found that a unique brain shape may be why the ancestors of living birds sur...
Decline in CO2 cooled earth's climate over 30 million years ago, scientists find
Aug 03, 2021 (SPX)
Between 40 and 34 million years ago, Earth's climate underwent a major climatic transition. Before 40 million years ago, during the Eocene, Antarctica was cover...
A long day for microbes, and the rise of oxygen on Earth
Aug 03, 2021 (SPX)
"We do not fully understand why it took so long and what factors controlled Earth's oxygenation," said geomicrobiologist Judith Klatt. "But when studying mats o...
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