EARLY EARTH - INDO DAILY

Oct 23, 2020 (SPX)

"We know some dinosaurs could fly before they evolved into birds," says Professor Larsson, Director of McGill's Redpath Museum. "What this shows us is that at l...

Researchers provide most detailed and complete record yet of Earth's last magnetic reversal

Oct 22, 2020 (SPX)

They published their results on September 1in the Progress in Earth and Planetary Science, a Springer journal. Named for the geophysicists who discovered past g...

How a greenhouse catastrophe killed nearly all life

Oct 20, 2020 (SPX)

Now, a team of researchers from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, in collaboration with the Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre f...

Driver of the largest mass extinction in the history of the Earth identified

Oct 20, 2020 (SPX)

Gigantic volcanic activities in today's Siberia and the release of large amounts of methane from the sea floor have been long debated as potential triggers of t...

Beak bone reveals pterosaur like no other

Oct 19, 2020 (SPX)

The fossilised piece of beak was a surprising find and was initially assumed to be part of the fin spine of a fish, but a team of palaeontologists from the univ...

World's greatest mass extinction triggered switch to warm-bloodedness

Oct 19, 2020 (SPX)

University of Bristol palaeontologist Professor Mike Benton, identifies in the journal Gondwana Research that the ancestors of both mammals and birds became war...

Earth and Moon Once Shared a Magnetic Shield, Protecting Their Atmospheres

Oct 15, 2020 (SPX)

But a neighboring shield may have helped our planet retain its atmosphere and eventually go on to develop life and habitable conditions. That shield was the Moo...

Earth grows fine gems in minutes

Oct 07, 2020 (SPX)

Aquamarine, emerald, garnet, zircon and topaz are but a few of the crystalline minerals found mostly in pegmatites, veinlike formations that commonly contain bo...

Diamonds found with gold in Canada's Far North offer clues to Earth's early history

Oct 07, 2020 (SPX)

"The diamonds we have found so far are small and not economic, but they occur in ancient sediments that are an exact analog of the world's biggest gold deposit ...

A timeline on the evolution of reptiles

Oct 07, 2020 (SPX)

Simoes is the Alexander Agassiz Postdoctoral Fellow in the lab of Harvard paleontologist Stephanie Pierce. From 2013 to 2018, he traveled to more than 20 countr...

Diversity of marine reptiles divvied up the Mesozoic seas

Sep 30, 2020 (UPI)

Using a combination of modern ecological modeling techniques, researchers have for the first time detailed the ways ancient reptiles -- including crocodiles and...

Paleontologists find evidence of new mass extinction 233 million years ago

Sep 16, 2020 (UPI)

The extinction event, which scientists dubbed Carnian Pluvial Episode, was characterized by significant reductions in biodiversity and the loss of 33 percent of...

True size of prehistoric mega-shark finally revealed

Sep 04, 2020 (SPX)

There is a grim fascination in determining the size of the largest sharks, but this can be difficult for fossil forms where teeth are often all that remain. Tod...

Fossil suggests animals have been hibernating for 250 million years

Aug 28, 2020 (UPI)

Torpor is another name for hibernation, during which animals lower their body temperatures and metabolic rates for long periods of time -- effectively sleeping ...

Statistical analysis reveals differences between dinosaur sexes

Aug 27, 2020 (UPI)

When fossil records are sparse, determining if differences between specimens are the result of differences in species, age, sex or natural variation is especial...

Monster munch: Ancient marine reptile died after dining on fellow titan

Aug 20, 2020 (AFP)

Inside its belly was the body of a lizard-like aquatic reptile called a thalattosaur, shorn of its head and long tail but undigested. Paleontologists digging in...

Exploding stars may have caused mass extinction on Earth, study shows

Aug 19, 2020 (SPX)

A new study led by University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign astronomy and physics professor Brian Fields explores the possibility that astronomical events were ...

Fossilised 429-mln-year-old eye mirrors modern insect vision

Aug 13, 2020 (AFP)

Fossilised trilobites, formidable-looking arthropods with segmented bodies and sturdy exoskeletons, are found all over the world. The creatures crawled across a...

Iron-rich meteorites on Earth reveal geochemistry of solar system's youth

Aug 04, 2020 (UPI)

For nearly as long as scientists have been finding meteorites, they've been working to group and classify them based on their mineralogy. As instrumentation and...

Malignant bone cancer found in ancient dinosaur fossil

Aug 04, 2020 (UPI)

The tumor was found on the fibula, or lower leg bone, of a Centrosaurus apertus specimen, a plant-eating, horned dinosaur that lived 75 million years ago. Short...