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Mass extinctions led to low species diversity, dinosaur rule
Oct 16, 2017 (SPX)
David J. Button, an NC State and North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences postdoctoral research scholar, and colleagues examined fossil records of almost 900 v...
Long-ignored ichthyosaur determined to be new species
Oct 10, 2017 (UPI)
The ichthyosaur, a dolphin-like marine reptile, was originally discovered in 1979 by British palaeontologist Robert Appleby, who named the new species Protoicht...
New evidence that Siberian volcanic eruptions caused extinction 250 million years ago
Oct 06, 2017 (SPX)
The study, which appears in the journal Scientific Reports, reports a global spike in the chemical element nickel at the time of extinction. The anomalous nicke...
Evidence suggests life on Earth started after meteorites splashed into warm little ponds
Oct 05, 2017 (SPX)
The researchers base their conclusion on exhaustive research and calculations drawing in aspects of astrophysics, geology, chemistry, biology and other discipli...
UTA study sheds new light on evolution
Oct 05, 2017 (SPX)
"This discovery is important as it shows how earth's planetary evolution may have happened," said Asish Basu, UTA professor of earth and environmental sciences ...
Crocodile fossils suggest giant reptiles emerged earlier than previously thought
Oct 03, 2017 (UPI)
Ieldraan melkshamensis belongs to a sub-family of prehistoric crocodiles called Geosaurini -- a group that includes the distant relatives of modern crocodiles. ...
The volatile processes that shaped the Earth
Oct 02, 2017 (SPX)
Although it is widely understood that Earth was formed gradually, from much smaller bodies, many of the processes involved in shaping our growing planet are les...
Study: 3.95 billion-year-old rocks contain earliest traces of life
Sep 27, 2017 (UPI)
The rock samples were formed when Earth was 500 million years old. During the Eoarchaean Era -- the first during which Earth featured a curst -- the planet was ...
The surprising, ancient behavior of jellyfish
Sep 25, 2017 (SPX)
However, Caltech scientists have now discovered that, as different as our daily schedules may seem, humans and jellyfish actually start and end their days with ...
Scientists sequence asexual tiny worm - whose lineage stretches back 18 million years
Sep 25, 2017 (SPX)
"Scientists have been trying to understand how some animals can survive for millions of years without sex because such strict, long-term abstinence is very rare...
Early trilobites had stomachs, new fossil study finds
Sep 25, 2017 (SPX)
"Trilobites are one of the first types of animals to show up in large numbers in the fossil record," said lead author Melanie Hopkins, an assistant curator in t...
Strange species found in Turkmenistan cave
Sep 22, 2017 (UPI)
The newly discovered species, Turkmenocampa mirabilis, required its own genus and is the first of its order discovered in Central Asia. "Turkmenocampa" is a ref...
Dinosaur evolution: Lumbering giants had agile ancestors
Sep 21, 2017 (SPX)
The sauropod group of dinosaurs included the largest animals that have ever walked the Earth - up to 40 meters long and weighing as much as 90 tons. Evolutionar...
Some large plant-easting dinosaurs also snacked on crustaceans
Sep 21, 2017 (UPI)
"From what we know about dinosaurs, this was a totally unexpected behavior," Karen Chin, curator of paleontology at the University of Colorado's Museum of Natur...
Trilobites had a stomach, new fossils show
Sep 21, 2017 (UPI)
The findings -- detailed this week in the journal PLOS ONE -- suggest the first animal stomachs evolved 20 million years earlier than previously thought. Resear...
Bite force research reveals dinosaur-eating frog
Sep 21, 2017 (SPX)
The conclusion comes from a study of the bite force of South American horned frogs from the living genus Ceratophrys, known as Pacman frogs for their characteri...
Celebrity fossil reveals all for science
Sep 19, 2017 (SPX)
Despite its small size, Agnostus pisiformis is a remarkable and useful fossil. The extinct animal was just one centimetre in size when adult, but has been found...
'Mysterious' ancient creature was definitely an animal
Sep 19, 2017 (SPX)
A new study by researchers at the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Bristol, and the British Geological Survey provides strong proof that Dickinsonia was an an...
Ancient amphibian had mouthful of teeth ready to grab you
Sep 19, 2017 (SPX)
In research published online in a recent issue of PeerJ, an open access journal, Professor Robert Reisz, Distinguished Professor of Paleontology at UTM, explain...
Geologist, artist team up to recreate ancient arthropod ecosystems
Sep 15, 2017 (UPI)
Though prolific, Agnostus pisiformis thrived for only a brief period of time, making the fossil useful as a time reference. And though quite small -- and seemin...
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