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The end-Cretaceous extinction unleashed modern shark diversity
Aug 06, 2018 (SPX)
As part of a larger scientific endeavour aiming to understand the diversity of fossil sharks, a group of researchers from Uppsala University, Sweden, and the Un...
Fossils suggest Alaska served as superhighway for migrating dinosaurs
Aug 06, 2018 (UPI)
The ancient dinosaur remains, dated to the Late Cretaceous, were recovered from the Cantwell Formation in Alaska's Denali National Park. The discovery marked th...
Researchers reveal hidden rules of genetics for how life on Earth began
Aug 03, 2018 (SPX)
Charles Carter, PhD, professor of biochemistry and biophysics at the UNC School of Medicine, and Peter Wills, PhD, an associate professor of biochemistry at the...
Platinum is key in ancient volcanic related climate change
Aug 01, 2018 (SPX)
To get a glimpse for how future catastrophic volcanic events might alter our lives, scientists at the University of Cincinnati dug deep into the past to find ne...
Ancient fish fossils reveal origin of the vertebrate skeleton
Jul 31, 2018 (UPI)
Heterostracans are a group of fossil fishes that lived 400 million years ago. The heterostracan fossil record has offered the oldest evidence of mineralized ske...
Creating 'synthetic' fossils in the lab sheds light on fossilization processes
Jul 30, 2018 (SPX)
In addition to directly studying fossils themselves, experimental treatments of fresh organismal remains can be utilised to study fossilisation. One commonly em...
Paleontologists discover largest dinosaur foot to date
Jul 30, 2018 (SPX)
"There are tracks and other incomplete skeletons from Australia and Argentina that seem to be from even bigger animals, but those gigantic skeletons were found ...
Sulfur analysis supports timing of oxygen's appearance
Jul 24, 2018 (SPX)
The sulfur record held by ancient rock marks the dramatic change in the planet's atmosphere that gave rise to complex life, but rocks are local indicators. For ...
ANU scientists discover the world's oldest colors
Jul 23, 2018 (SPX)
Dr Nur Gueneli from ANU said the pigments taken from marine black shales of the Taoudeni Basin in Mauritania, West Africa, were more than half a billion years o...
Lake bed reveals details about ancient Earth
Jul 19, 2018 (SPX)
Rice's Justin Hayles and his colleagues, led by Peter Crockford at McGill University in Montreal, analyzed samples from an ancient Canadian lake bed that turned...
Scientists discover Earth's youngest banded iron formation in western China
Jul 13, 2018 (SPX)
"This is critical, as it is the first observation of a Precambrian-like banded iron formation that is Early Cambrian in age. This offers the most conclusive evi...
Oxygen levels on early Earth rose, fell several times before great oxidation event
Jul 10, 2018 (SPX)
The evidence comes from a new study that indicates a second and much earlier "whiff" of oxygen in Earth's distant past - in the atmosphere and on the surface of...
World's first animals caused global warming
Jul 03, 2018 (SPX)
Some 520-540 million years ago, animal life evolved in the ocean and began breaking down organic material on the seafloor, leading to more carbon dioxide and le...
Continental microbes helped seed ancient seas with nitrogen
Jul 02, 2018 (SPX)
Now, ASU researcher Ferran Garcia-Pichel, along with Christophe Thomazo, from the Laboratoire Biogeosciences in Dijon, France, and Estelle Couradeau, a former M...
What caused the mass extinction of Earth's first animals?
Jun 28, 2018 (SPX)
Scientists have argued for decades over what may have caused this mass extinction, during what is called the "Ediacaran-Cambrian transition." Some think that a ...
Yosemite granite 'tells a different story' story about Earth's geologic history
Jun 28, 2018 (SPX)
Granites are igneous rocks comprised predominately of the minerals quartz and feldspar. They are the link between igneous processes that occur within the Earth ...
Why life on Earth first got big
Jun 26, 2018 (SPX)
The research, led by the University of Cambridge, found that the most successful organisms living in the oceans more than half a billion years ago were the ones...
Fossil reveals new species of ancient marine lizard
Jun 21, 2018 (UPI)
Paleontologists found the lizard's remarkably well-preserved remains in Italy. The fossil featured preserved muscle and skin. Scientists found the remains in Pu...
In the gaping mouth of ancient crocodiles
Jun 20, 2018 (SPX)
The very earliest crocodilians were very different to the beasts we know well today, they were much smaller bodied, slender and had longer legs. It is speculate...
T. rex could not stick out its tongue: study
Jun 20, 2018 (AFP)
That's because the long-extinct T. rex likely had a tongue that was affixed to the bottom of its mouth, much like an alligator or crocodile, said the study in t...
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