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Half-billion-year-old parasite still threatens shellfish
Nov 07, 2025 (SPX)
The research, published in iScience, used high-resolution 3D scans to look inside 480-million-year-old shells from a Moroccan site known for its exceptionally w...
Ancient mantle revealed by 3.7-billion-year-old rocks in Australia
Nov 06, 2025 (SPX)
Lead author Matilda Boyce said the scarcity of ancient rocks makes determination of early crustal growth timing and rates challenging. The team applied fine-sca...
Planetary modeling reveals Jupiter's rapid early growth shaped Earth's formation zone
Oct 27, 2025 (SPX)
Significantly, the planetesimals produced in these bands belonged to a second generation and formed millions of years after the earliest solid bodies. This timi...
Dinosaurs Thrived in New Mexico Up to Catastrophic End Cretaceous Impact
Oct 27, 2025 (SPX)
The study, conducted by Andrew Flynn and his team, resolves ongoing debates regarding the circumstances of dinosaur extinction. Previously, scientists disagreed...
Evidence suggests ancient Australians valued fossils rather than causing megafauna extinction
Oct 23, 2025 (SPX)
The bone was previously thought, based on a study co-authored in 1980 by Professor Mike Archer, to show a cut indicative of human butchery. However, Professor A...
Ancient sea creatures may have navigated using Earth's magnetic field
Oct 21, 2025 (SPX)
These magnetite particles, first discovered in marine sediments a few years ago, are about 10 to 20 times larger than the magnetite crystals typically produced ...
USF study: Ancient plankton hint at steadier future for ocean life
Oct 13, 2025 (SPX)
In a new study co-led by Patrick Rafter of the University of South Florida, researchers show that warming in the tropical Pacific - home to some of the world's ...
Nickel and urea hints reshape story of early Earth oxygen rise
Oct 10, 2025 (SPX)
This study set out to address that mystery by examining an often overlooked but crucial factor, the influence of trace elements and compounds, specifically nick...
Ancient hot springs reveal how microbes thrived before Earth gained oxygen
Sep 25, 2025 (SPX)
The research focused on five springs across Tokyo, Akita, and Aomori prefectures. Their waters contain ferrous iron (Fe2+) and little oxygen, resembling conditi...
Asteroid tells secrets of Earth's 'far wetter' building blocks
Sep 10, 2025 (AFP)
Research on a tiny portion of the 5.4 grams of rock and dust collected from the Ryugu asteroid, some 300 million kilometres (185 million miles) from Earth, offe...
Earth's chemistry settled early but later collision likely delivered water for life
Sep 01, 2025 (SPX)
The findings, published in Science Advances, suggest that a later planetary collision was critical for supplying these life-supporting materials. The research p...
Paleontologists discover dinosaur-era crocodile in Patagonia
Aug 29, 2025 (UPI)
Hypercarnivorous animals are those whose diet consists of more than 70% meat, and that include eagles, vultures, toothed whales, spiders and scorpions. The disc...
Hidden order uncovered in geological epochs across Earth's deep history
Aug 25, 2025 (SPX)
"Geological time scales may look like tidy timelines in textbooks, but their boundaries tell a much more chaotic story. Our findings show that what seemed like ...
Fossil discoveries in southern Africa reveal life before catastrophic Permian extinction
Aug 13, 2025 (SPX)
"This mass extinction was nothing short of a cataclysm for life on Earth, and changed the course of evolution," said Christian Sidor, UW professor of biology an...
Scientists find 74-million-year-old mammal fossil in Chile
Aug 12, 2025 (AFP)
"Yeutherium pressor" weighed between 30 and 40 grams (about one ounce) and lived in the Upper Cretaceous period, about 74 million years ago. It is the smallest ...
Trilobite limb study reveals unexpected mobility and mating appendages
Aug 06, 2025 (SPX)
"Understanding behavior and movement of fossils is challenging, because you cannot observe this activity like in living animals," said lead author Sarah Losso. ...
Ancient Scottish Fossils Push Back Tetrapod Timeline
Jun 02, 2025 (SPX)
New research from the University of Texas at Austin reveals that the Westlothiana lizziae and similar ancient salamander-like creatures are 14 million years old...
Rock record illuminates oxygen history
Jun 02, 2025 (SPX)
If you traveled back in time to before the GOE (more than ~2.4 billion years ago), you would encounter a largely anoxic (oxygen-free) environment. The organisms...
Ancient Fossil Tracks Push Back Reptile Evolution by 40 Million Years
May 15, 2025 (SPX)
Flinders University Professor John Long, who co-authored the study, identified the tracks as belonging to an amniote - a clade that includes reptiles, birds, an...
Redrawing the Evolutionary Timeline of Reptiles with New Fossil Evidence
May 15, 2025 (SPX)
"Once we identified this, we realized this is the oldest evidence in the world of reptile-like animals walking around on land - and it pushes their evolution ba...
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