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Theory suggests root efficiency, independence drove global spread of flora
Feb 22, 2018 (SPX)
As plant species spread north and south from their nutrient-rich tropical beginnings, the fine tips of their roots became narrower and more widespread to help t...
Locomotion of bipedal dinosaurs might be predicted from that of ground-running birds
Feb 22, 2018 (SPX)
Previous research has investigated the biomechanics of ground-dwelling birds to better understand the how bipedal non-avian dinosaurs moved, but it has not prev...
Plants colonized the earth 100 million years earlier than previously thought
Feb 21, 2018 (SPX)
All of this changed with the origin of land plants from their pond scum relatives, greening the continents and creating habitats that animals would later invade...
A mineral blueprint for finding Burgess Shale-type fossils
Feb 19, 2018 (SPX)
Much of what we know about the earliest life on Earth comes from the organic remains of organisms without hard parts. Yet the vast majority of fossils rely on h...
Extinction models that account for body size prove more accurate
Feb 13, 2018 (UPI)
When ecologists at the Santa Fe Institute incorporated body size and metabolic rate into their model's calculations, they found their simulation offered a more ...
Beewolves have been successfully using the same antibiotics for 68 million years
Feb 13, 2018 (SPX)
A team of scientists from the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz and the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena have now found that beewolves, un...
Walking fish suggests locomotion control evolved much earlier than thought
Feb 12, 2018 (SPX)
"It has generally been thought that the ability to walk is something that evolved as vertebrates transitioned from sea to land," says senior author Jeremy Dasen...
Dinosaur age meets the space age at NASA Goddard
Feb 08, 2018 (SPX)
The tracks were discovered by Ray Stanford - a local dinosaur track expert whose wife, Sheila, works at Goddard. After dropping off Sheila at work one day in 20...
The evolution of walking may have happened earlier than thought -- and underwater
Feb 08, 2018 (UPI)
Often, the development of limbed locomotion and the ability to walk is traditionally associated with the transition from life in the sea to life on land. But ne...
Rainforest collapse 307 million years ago impacted the evolution of early land vertebrates
Feb 08, 2018 (SPX)
The Carboniferous and Permian periods (358 - 272 million years ago) were critical intervals in the evolution of life on land. During the Carboniferous Period No...
Ancient geographic and genomic history of cockroach traced back to last supercontinent
Feb 08, 2018 (SPX)
But now, researchers have used the latest in genomic data to gain the most detailed information yet of their evolutionary history. Armed with a vast amount of g...
Giant viruses may play an intriguing role in evolution of life on Earth
Feb 08, 2018 (SPX)
In a new study, a University of Iowa biologist identified a virus family whose set of genes is similar to that of eukaryotes, an organism classification that in...
When did flowers originate?
Feb 06, 2018 (SPX)
The study, published in New Phytologist by researchers from the UK and China, shows that flowering plants are neither as old as suggested by previous molecular ...
New Egyptian dinosaur reveals ancient link between Africa and Europe
Jan 30, 2018 (SPX)
The fossilized remains of Mansourasaurus were unearthed by an expedition undertaken by the Mansoura University Vertebrate Paleontology (MUVP) initiative, an eff...
Oxygen accumulated in Earth's primordial oceans 250 million years before the atmosphere
Jan 25, 2018 (UPI)
Scientists arrived at the revelation after creating a model of early ecosystems in Earth's primordial oceans. Scientists used observations of ancient sedimentar...
Biomarkers solve 500-million-year-old macroorganism mystery
Jan 24, 2018 (SPX)
These organisms populated the Earth in the Ediacaran period (about 575-541 mln years ago), and their position on the evolutionary tree was unknown. The obtained...
Novel hypothesis on why animals diversified on Earth
Jan 23, 2018 (SPX)
A transdisciplinary and international team, from Lund University in Sweden and University of Southern Denmark presents their findings in Nature Ecology and Evol...
Scientists discover planet's oldest oxygen oasis
Jan 18, 2018 (UPI)
The new research, published this week in the journal Nature Communications, suggests photosynthesizing bacteria began churning out significant amounts of oxygen...
Tiny dinosaur may have dazzled mates with rainbow ruff and a bony crest
Jan 17, 2018 (SPX)
A team of researchers, including scientists from The University of Texas at Austin, are the first to conduct an in-depth study of the dinosaur and describe it. ...
Print a 200-million-year-old dinosaur fossil in your own home
Jan 15, 2018 (SPX)
Kimi Chapelle, a PhD student at the Evolutionary Studies Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa (Wits), has used the Wit...
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