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Researchers: Earlier study breaking T. rex into 3 different species was wrong
Jul 26, 2021 (UPI)
In the journal Evolutionary Biology, researchers from the American Museum of Natural History and Carthage College said in the study, published this week in the ...
Oldest fossils of methane-cycling microbes expand frontiers of habitability on early Earth
Jul 16, 2021 (SPX)
The microfossils are the oldest evidence for this type of life and expand the frontiers of potentially habitable environments on the early Earth, as well as oth...
Rare meteorite could hold secrets to life on Earth
Jul 12, 2021 (SPX)
Research carried out on the meteorite, which fell in the UK earlier this year, suggests that the space rock dates back to the beginning of the Solar System, 4.5...
New beetle species found in the fossilized feces of ancient dinosaur ancestor
Jun 30, 2021 (UPI)
Researchers detailed the tiny beetle species, Triamyxa coprolithica, in a new paper, published Wednesday in the journal Current Biology. Silesaurus opolensis li...
Dinosaurs were struggling long before the asteroid hit
Jun 29, 2021 (UPI)
Though the devastating effects of the asteroid impact that ended the Mesozoic Era likely turned out the lights on the dinosaurs, new research suggests global co...
New research reveals remarkable resilience of sea life in the aftermath of mass extinctions
Jun 24, 2021 (SPX)
The international research team found plankton were able to recover and resume their core function of regulating carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere more th...
Fossils suggest woodlice ancestors crawled across Ireland 360M years ago
Jun 16, 2021 (UPI)
The fossil arthropod was first recovered in 1908 from the Late Devonian floodplains of Ireland, but until now, scientists had failed to identify the species. Us...
World's tiniest computer shows how South Pacific snail survived mass extinction
Jun 15, 2021 (UPI)
Only a single native species, Partula hyalina, survived. Now, thanks to the world's smallest computer, the Michigan Micro Mote, which scientists attached to the...
Discovery of the oldest plant fossils on the African continent
Jun 09, 2021 (SPX)
The greening of continents - or terrestrialisation - is undoubtedly one of the most important processes that our planet has undergone. For most of the Earth's h...
Ancient warming fueled massive marine dead zones in North Pacific
Jun 02, 2021 (UPI)
According to a new survey of Bering Sea sediment cores -- the results of which were published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances -- ancient periods of wa...
Juvenile T. rexes had powerful bite, but much less forceful than elders
Jun 02, 2021 (UPI)
Previous efforts to estimate the bite force generated by young T. rexes have relied on musculoskeletal modeling, which use anatomical and physical principles to...
Story of Cambrian Explosion complicated by ancient mudslides
Jun 02, 2021 (UPI)
New research, however, suggests the fossils may not be what they seem -- many of the fossils from the shale deposit could have been carried from far away by mud...
Did Earth's early rise in oxygen help multicellular life evolve
May 19, 2021 (SPX)
That theory, the "Oxygen Control Hypothesis," suggests that the size of these early multicellular organisms was limited by the depth to which oxygen could diffu...
Microfossil found in Scottish Highlands could be 'missing link' in early animal evolution
May 04, 2021 (SPX)
The discovery could be the "missing link" in the evolution of animals, according to the team, which included scientists from the U.S., United Kingdom, and Austr...
Oxygen production from three-body photodissociation of water using light
May 01, 2021 (SPX)
In contrast, the photodissociation of H2O, one of the dominant oxygen carriers, has long been assumed to proceed mainly to produce hydroxyl (OH)- and hydrogen (...
Researcher questions whether powered flight appeared on non-avialan dinosaurs
Apr 28, 2021 (SPX)
A research paper published in 2020 in the scientific journal Current Biology concluded that, apart from birds -the only living descendants of dinosaurs-, powere...
Fossils show giant ichthyosaur could be one of largest-ever animals
Apr 28, 2021 (UPI)
Fossils of three new ichthyosaurs were discovered in high-elevation localities in the Kössen Formation in the Canton of Grisons of the eastern Swiss Alps, and ...
New insights from the ancients of the microscopic world
Apr 28, 2021 (SPX)
In a newly published paper in Nature Microbiology a research team from the iThree Institute at the University of Technology Sydney describes the cell division p...
Billions of T. rexes walked on North America during the Age of the Dinosaurs
Apr 15, 2021 (UPI)
With the help of his students, Marshall determined North America's T. rex population peaked at 20,000. That means that over the course of their 2.5 million-year...
Massive flying pterosaurs had spoked vertebrae to support especially long necks
Apr 14, 2021 (UPI)
Until now, scientists weren't sure how exactly the vertebrae of these flying reptiles were able to support such long necks and large heads. According to a new p...
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