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150-million-year old, piranha-like specimen is earliest known flesh-eating fish
Oct 19, 2018 (SPX)
As further support for that notion, the researchers also found the victims: other fish that had apparently been nibbled on in the same limestone deposits in Sou...
Oldest evidence for animals found by UCR researchers
Oct 17, 2018 (SPX)
The study, led by Gordon Love, a professor in UCR's Department of Earth Sciences, was published in Nature Ecology and Evolution. The first author is Alex Zumber...
Improving paleotemperature reconstruction: Swiss lakes as a model system
Oct 15, 2018 (SPX)
Researchers under the direction of the University of Basel analyzed sediment samples collected from more than 30 Swiss lakes. Their findings can be applied to l...
Newly described fossils could help reveal why some dinos got so big
Oct 12, 2018 (SPX)
How they grew so large from ancestors that were small enough to be found in a modern-day petting zoo has remained a mystery. A new, in-depth anatomical descript...
Siberian paleontologists discovered the oldest macro-skeleton remains
Oct 10, 2018 (SPX)
Palaeopascichnus resembles a series of spheres or ellipsoids, which are placed one by one and called chambers. They have been known for a long time and can be f...
Getting a grip on the slow but unique evolution of sharks
Oct 09, 2018 (SPX)
Advances in genome sequencing have made it possible to compare genomes from different species, giving us insights into their evolutionary histories and characte...
Researchers add new finds to fossil record for angiosperm trees
Oct 04, 2018 (SPX)
Researchers from Adelphi University and the Burpee Museum of Natural History found the fossil in the Mancos Shale Formation in Utah, in ancient delta deposits f...
Lilly Pilly fossils reveal snowless Snowy Mountains
Oct 04, 2018 (SPX)
University of Adelaide research, published in the American Journal of Botany, describes fossils of the iconic Australian tree, the Lilly Pilly, prized for its g...
Birds reinvent voice box in novel evolutionary twist
Sep 27, 2018 (SPX)
New interdisciplinary research suggests that this distinctly avian anatomy arose because birds, somewhere in their evolutionary history, opted for building a br...
The first predators and their self-repairing teeth
Sep 26, 2018 (SPX)
In a land before time: A fast-moving predator with sharp teeth goes hunting in the prehistoric sea. It spies some prey and advances stealthily. All of a sudden,...
Chinese Cretaceous fossil highlights avian evolution
Sep 25, 2018 (SPX)
Drs. WANG Min, Thomas Stidham, and ZHOU Zhonghe from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences re...
How mammal backbones changed during evolution
Sep 24, 2018 (SPX)
A new study suggests mammals are unique in one more way - the makeup of their spine. Led by Associate Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Curat...
Fat from 558 million years ago reveals earliest known animal
Sep 21, 2018 (SPX)
The strange creature called Dickinsonia, which grew up to 1.4 metres in length and was oval shaped with rib-like segments running along its body, was part of th...
When mammal ancestors evolved flexible shoulders, their backbones changed too
Sep 21, 2018 (SPX)
"If you look at animals today, mammals stand out because that they have backbones where you can clearly see different regions; the vertebrae in each region look...
Earth's oldest animals formed complex ecological communities
Sep 21, 2018 (SPX)
Ediacaran fossils have a slightly bizarre appearance not shared by any modern animal groups. For decades, researchers believed these enigmatic fossils were ecol...
Tiny fossils reveal how shrinking was essential for successful evolution
Sep 21, 2018 (SPX)
The origin of modern mammals can be traced back more than 200 million years to the age of dinosaurs. But while dinosaurs evolved to become some of the largest l...
The walking dead: Fossils on the move can distort patterns of mass extinctions
Sep 20, 2018 (SPX)
Florida Museum of Natural History researchers used a series of 130-foot cores drilled from the Po Plain in northeastern Italy to test a thought experiment: Imag...
Ancient amber reveals lacewing diversity during Mesozoic
Sep 17, 2018 (UPI)
Scientists know pollinators influenced the evolution of early angiosperms, or flowering plants. But evidence of early pollinator-plant relationships among pre-a...
Unravelling the reasons why mass extinctions occur
Sep 13, 2018 (SPX)
The international team has investigated sudden ecological transitions throughout history, from mass mortality events in the far past to more recent extinctions ...
Syracuse researchers shine light on ancient global warming
Sep 11, 2018 (SPX)
Linda Ivany, professor of Earth sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences (A and S), is the lead author of an article in Science Advances (American Associati...
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