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Pterosaur hatchlings needed their parents, trove of eggs reveals
Nov 30, 2017 (AFP)
Pterosaurs were reptiles, and the first creatures -- after insects -- to evolve powered flight, meaning they flapped their wings to stay aloft instead of simply...
Ancient fish scales and vertebrate teeth share an embryonic origin
Nov 27, 2017 (SPX)
Recent studies on species such as zebrafish showed scales and teeth developing from distinctly different clusters of cells in fish embryos, pouring cold water o...
Rise in oxygen levels links to ancient explosion of life, researchers find
Nov 23, 2017 (SPX)
A team of researchers, including a faculty member and postdoctoral fellow from Washington University in St. Louis, found that oxygen levels appear to increase a...
A popular tool to trace Earth's oxygen history can give false positives
Nov 22, 2017 (SPX)
Common molecules called ligands can bias the results of a popular chemical tracer called the chromium (Cr) isotope system, which is used to test sedimentary roc...
When water met iron deep inside the Earth, did it create conditions for life
Nov 16, 2017 (SPX)
The team - which includes scientists from Carnegie, Stanford University, the Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research in China, and the...
Human cells, hardy microbes share common ancestor
Nov 10, 2017 (SPX)
The Colorado State University researcher studies how these hardy microbes - which constitute one of three surviving domains of life - express their genes, produ...
Man's earliest ancestors discovered in southern England
Nov 09, 2017 (SPX)
The two teeth are from small, rat-like creatures that lived 145 million years ago in the shadow of the dinosaurs. They are the earliest undisputed fossils of ma...
Mammals switched to daytime activity after dinosaur extinction
Nov 08, 2017 (SPX)
A long-standing theory holds that the common ancestor to all mammals was nocturnal, but the new discovery reveals when mammals started living in the daytime for...
Carbonate shells change with time
Nov 06, 2017 (SPX)
Using electron microscopy and infrared spectrometry on ultra-thin slices cut from these shells, Dorrit Jacob from Macquarie University in Australia, together wi...
New theory addresses how life on earth arose from the primordial muck
Nov 06, 2017 (SPX)
The new papers - one in Molecular Biology and Evolution, the other in Biosystems - show how recent experimental studies of two enzyme superfamilies surmount the...
Newly discovered volcanic rock minerals offer insights into earth's evolution
Nov 06, 2017 (SPX)
In new research conducted at LSU, scientists have found evidence showing that komatiites, three-billion-year old volcanic rock found within the Earth's mantle, ...
The secret lives of ancient land plants
Nov 06, 2017 (SPX)
In collaboration with over 40 universities and research institutes worldwide, Takayuki Kohchi and colleagues at Kyoto University have unraveled the genome of th...
Bandit-masked feathered dinosaur hid from predators using multiple types of camouflage
Oct 31, 2017 (SPX)
By reconstructing the likely colour patterning of the Chinese dinosaur Sinosauropteryx, researchers have shown that it had multiple types of camouflage which li...
Zircon as Earth's timekeeper: Are we reading the clock right?
Oct 26, 2017 (SPX)
The researchers' findings have been published in Earth-Science Reviews. The paper proposes an efficient and integrated approach to assist in identifying zircons...
Mongolian microfossils point to the rise of animals on Earth
Oct 26, 2017 (SPX)
Called the Khesen Formation, the site is one of the most significant for early Earth fossils since the discovery of the Doushantuo Formation in southern China n...
'Mega-carnivore' dinosaur roamed southern Africa 200 million years ago
Oct 26, 2017 (SPX)
The team, which includes researchers from The University of Manchester, University of Cape Town, South Africa, and Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil, have found...
Fossils from the world's oldest trees reveal complex anatomy never seen before
Oct 24, 2017 (SPX)
Fossils from a 374-million-year-old tree found in north-west China have revealed an interconnected web of woody strands within the trunk of the tree that is muc...
Ancient, lost, mountains in the Karoo reveals the secrets of massive extinction event
Oct 24, 2017 (SPX)
Remnants of these mountains - called the Gondwanides, after the massive supercontinent, Gondwana over which it stretched - once spanned the southern continents ...
Life goes on for marine ecosystems after cataclysmic mass extinction
Oct 23, 2017 (SPX)
An international team of scientists, including Dr Alex Dunhill from the University of Leeds, has found that although the mass extinction in the Late Triassic pe...
Scientists describe 'enigmatic' species that lived in Utah some 500 million years ago
Oct 16, 2017 (SPX)
Years ago, Gunther collected the rock and later gave it to researchers at the University of Kansas' Biodiversity Institute - just one among thousands of such fo...
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