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Did supernovae kill off large ocean animals at dawn of Pleistocene
Dec 12, 2018 (SPX)
ithin a few hundred years, long after the strange light in the sky had dwindled, a tsunami of cosmic energy from that same shattering star explosion could have ...
Scientists discover how birds and dinosaurs evolved to dazzle with colourful displays
Dec 11, 2018 (SPX)
Iridescence refers to the phenomena where colour changes when an object is viewed from different angles. Birds produce this varying coloration in their feathers...
Biggest mass extinction caused by global warming leaving ocean animals gasping for breath
Dec 07, 2018 (SPX)
Fossils in ancient seafloor rocks display a thriving and diverse marine ecosystem, then a swath of corpses. Some 96 percent of marine species were wiped out dur...
Enhancing our vision of the past
Dec 06, 2018 (SPX)
Ancestors of insects and crustaceans that lived more than 500 million years ago in the Cambrian period were some of the earliest active predators, but not much ...
Mantle neon illuminates Earth's formation
Dec 06, 2018 (SPX)
Drawing on data from the depths of the Earth to deep space, University of California Davis Professor Sujoy Mukhopadhyay and postdoctoral researcher Curtis Willi...
Fires fueled spread of grasslands on ancient Earth
Dec 03, 2018 (SPX)
A new study links a large rise in wildfires nearly 10 million years ago, in the late Miocene, with a major shift in vegetation on land, as indicated by carbon i...
New research offers detail and insight into deep-time evolution of animal life on islands
Nov 16, 2018 (SPX)
Now, a new paper appearing in PLOS ONE from an international team of investigators describes two new fossil relatives of marsupials that shed light on how a uni...
World's smallest dinosaur tracks reveal new sparrow-sized raptor
Nov 16, 2018 (UPI)
"They are the world's smallest dinosaur tracks," Anthony Romilio, researcher at the University of Queensland, said in a news release. The 110-million-year-old t...
Stripping the linchpins from the life-making machine reaffirms its seminal evolution
Nov 15, 2018 (SPX)
The experiment's success reaffirmed the translational system's place at the earliest foundations of life on Earth. Every living thing exists because the transla...
How Earth volcanoes offer a window into the evolution of life and the solar system
Nov 14, 2018 (SPX)
Unearthing these clues is what motivates planetary scientists from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, to venture to inhospitable places ...
Near-complete fossil reveals evolution of advanced flight among early birds
Nov 13, 2018 (UPI)
Analysis of the 75-million-year-old suggests enantiornithines evolved advanced flying capabilities similar to those of modern birds. The fossil -- described Tue...
Tiny footprints, big discovery: Reptile tracks oldest ever found in grand canyon
Nov 09, 2018 (SPX)
The fossil trackway covers a fallen boulder that now rests along the Bright Angel Trail in the national park. Rowland presented his findings at the recent annua...
Fossilized dinosaur proteins and burnt toast feature similar chemical compounds
Nov 09, 2018 (UPI)
Scientists have long debated whether soft tissue can be preserved within dinosaur bones. While hard tissue -- bones, eggs, teeth, scales -- can survive for more...
Today's budding yeasts shed traits from their 400-million-year-old ancestor
Nov 09, 2018 (SPX)
Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair in Biological Sciences Antonis Rokas and his collaborators started by sequencing the genomes of a staggering 220 yeast species and ex...
Dry conditions may have helped a new type of plant gain a foothold on Earth
Nov 08, 2018 (SPX)
Researchers have long believed that falling carbon dioxide levels drove the origin of plants with this innovation, but a new study in the Proceedings of the Nat...
Study: Colored bird eggs come from dinosaurs
Nov 01, 2018 (UPI)
According to a new study published Wednesday in the journal Nature, non-bird dinosaurs laid eggs in open or partially open nests. Modern bird eggs, even those t...
Synthetic microorganisms allow scientists to study ancient evolutionary mysteries
Oct 30, 2018 (SPX)
By studying one of these engineered organisms-a bacterium whose genome consists of both ribonucleic acid (RNA) and deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)-the scientists ho...
Tracing the evolutionary origins of fish to shallow ocean waters
Oct 26, 2018 (SPX)
"It's been this ongoing question of, well, where were they?" says Lauren Sallan, a paleobiologist at the University of Pennsylvania. "Where were they hiding? Wh...
Fragile seashores were 'cradle of evolution' for early fish
Oct 26, 2018 (SPX)
The findings, published in Science suggest that, while coral reefs may be vital for diversification at the present day, fragile near shore environments were cru...
Scientists ID new 'missing link' species between dinosaurs, birds
Oct 25, 2018 (UPI)
Based on physical characteristics, researchers believe the newly identified species of Archaeopteryx, known as Archaeopteryx albersdoerferi, is a closer cousin ...
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