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Chance played a major role in keeping Earth fit for life
Dec 15, 2020 (SPX)
The research, published in the Nature journal Communications Earth and Environment, involved conducting the first ever simulation of climate evolution on thousa...
Mass extinctions of land-dwelling animals occur in 27-million-year cycle
Dec 14, 2020 (SPX)
The study also finds that these mass extinctions align with major asteroid impacts and devastating volcanic outpourings of lava called flood-basalt eruptions - ...
Artificial intelligence finds surprising patterns in Earth's biological mass extinctions
Dec 14, 2020 (SPX)
In fact, scientists now know that most species that have ever existed are extinct. This extinction of species has on the whole been roughly balanced by the orig...
Fossils reveal a wet, warm 'Shangri-La'-like ecosystem on Tibetan Plateau
Dec 08, 2020 (UPI)
The ancient ecosystem was revealed by a trove of plant fossils, discovered by a team of scientists in the Bangor Basin in central Tibet. The Chinese research te...
Ancient Earth had a thick, toxic atmosphere like Venus - until it cooled off and became liveable
Nov 27, 2020 (The Conversation)
To understand what conditions were like in Earth's early years, our research tried to recreate the chemical balance of the boiling magma ocean that covered the ...
Teeth from eel-like conodonts offer new proof of parallel evolution
Nov 23, 2020 (UPI)
Despite living in distinct geographical regions, different groups of conodonts, eel-like creatures, adapted to new habitats in nearly identical ways. Researcher...
Fossils purported to be world's earliest animals revealed as algae
Nov 23, 2020 (UPI)
"It brings the oldest evidence for animals nearly 100 million years closer to the present day," study co-author Lennart van Maldegem said in a news release. "We...
Climate change devastated dinosaurs not once, but twice
Nov 19, 2020 (AFP)
If the explosive fireball didn't get them, the plunge in global temperature on a planet with little or no ice -- caused by a blanket of heat-shielding debris in...
Fossil shark turns in to mystery pterosaur
Nov 11, 2020 (SPX)
Lead author of the project, University of Portsmouth PhD student Roy Smith, discovered the mystery creature amongst fossil collections housed in the Sedgwick Mu...
Half a billion years old microfossils may yield new knowledge of animal origins
Nov 10, 2020 (SPX)
"We believe this discovery of ours improves our scope for understanding the period in Earth's history when animals first appeared - and is likely to prompt many...
Duckbill dinosaur fossils from Africa hints at how dinosaurs once crossed oceans
Nov 06, 2020 (SPX)
The study, published in Cretaceous Research, reports the new dinosaur, Ajnabia odysseus, from rocks in Morocco dating to the end of the Cretaceous, 66 million y...
A 520-million-year-old five-eyed fossil reveals arthropod origin
Nov 05, 2020 (SPX)
But how did arthropods evolve and what did their ancestors look like? These have been a major conundrum in animal evolution puzzling generations of scientists f...
Extinct group of amphibians used a rapid-fire tongue to catch prey
Nov 05, 2020 (UPI)
For years, albanerpetontids, called "albies" for short, have puzzled scientists. Despite claws, scales and tails that recall those of lizards, albies are offici...
Fossils reveal mammals mingled in age of dinosaurs
Nov 03, 2020 (SPX)
The fossils, which are about 75.5 million years old but exquisitely preserved, offer a rare glimpse into mammalian behavior during the Late Cretaceous Period wh...
Night of the living algae
Nov 02, 2020 (SPX)
Vast amounts of debris, soot, and aerosols shot into the atmosphere when an asteroid slammed into Earth 66 million years ago, plunging the planet into darkness,...
Models for potential precursors of cells endure simulated early-Earth conditions
Oct 29, 2020 (SPX)
Understanding how the compartments - known as complex coacervates - respond to wet-dry cycling also informs current applications of the droplets, which are foun...
Scientists discover new organic compounds that could have helped form the first cells
Oct 29, 2020 (SPX)
A new survey conducted by an international team of chemists from the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) at Tokyo Institute of Technology and other institutes f...
Giant lizards improved their flying abilities over millions of years
Oct 28, 2020 (UPI)
According to a paper published Wednesday in the journal Nature, pterosaurs doubled their flying efficiency over the course of their evolutionary history. Unfort...
Antarctica yields oldest fossils of giant birds with 21-foot wingspans
Oct 28, 2020 (SPX)
Called pelagornithids, the birds filled a niche much like that of today's albatrosses and traveled widely over Earth's oceans for at least 60 million years. Tho...
Large tides may have driven evolution of fish towards life on land
Oct 28, 2020 (SPX)
"During long periods of the Earth's history, we've had small tidal ranges. But in the Late Silurian and Early Devonian, they seem to have been large in some par...
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