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Experiments cast doubt on how the Earth was formed
Aug 16, 2017 (SPX)
This implies that the building blocks of the Earth must be different to what has been supposed. The work is presented at the Goldschmidt geochemistry conference...
Scientists unearth largest dinosaur species in Patagonia
Aug 09, 2017 (UPI)
Titanosaurs are a diverse group of plant-eating sauropods. The group's newest member is Patagotitan mayorum. Its name is an homage to the dino's origins and siz...
Well-preserved Canadian fossil reveals dinosaur armor like no other
Aug 03, 2017 (UPI)
The newly discovered dinosaur species, Borealopelta markmitchelli, was the Humvee of the Cretaceous period. Despite the tank-like species' impressive size, the ...
What flowers looked like 100 million years ago
Aug 03, 2017 (SPX)
This new study, the "eFLOWER project", is an unprecedented international effort to combine information on the structure of flowers with the latest information o...
Dinosaur-era plant found growing in Wisconsin lakes
Jul 31, 2017 (UPI)
Lychnothamnus barbatus is a tall algae species. It has previously been found in Europe and Australasia. Cretaceous-era fossils unearthed in Australia offer the ...
Scientists rediscover lost burial site of famed long-necked sauropod
Jul 27, 2017 (UPI)
Found on an isolated sheep station in Queensland, the dinosaur's origins were lost to time and dust in the wake of the specimen's excavation. Attempts in the 19...
Large-mouthed fish dominated the seas following mass extinction
Jul 26, 2017 (UPI)
The extinction event separating the Permian and Triassic periods occurred 252 million years ago. It was the most devastating extinction event in the planet's hi...
The oldest bad boy in the world
Jul 25, 2017 (SPX)
The reconstruction and interpretation of the characteristics of Ponomarenkia belmonthensis was achieved by Prof. Dr Rolf Beutel and Dr Evgeny V. Yan of Friedric...
The puzzle of evolutionary relationships among vertebrates
Jul 25, 2017 (SPX)
The evolution of jawed vertebrates is part of our own history since humans belong to the tetrapods more specifically we are mammals, or, even more specifically,...
Link between continental breakup, volcanic carbon emissions may influence evolution
Jul 21, 2017 (UPI)
The link between dramatic tectonic shifts -- the formation and breakup of the supercontinents -- and Earth's carbon cycle also has a strong influence on the tra...
Our ancestors were already warm-blooded before PT extinction event
Jul 20, 2017 (SPX)
Today, only birds and mammals are able both to produce their own body heat (this is known as endothermy) and maintain it at a high, stable temperature (homeothe...
Fossil site shows impact of early Jurassic's low oxygen oceans
Jul 18, 2017 (SPX)
The research was led by Rowan Martindale, an assistant professor at The University of Texas at Austin Jackson School of Geosciences, and published in print in P...
Ancient plankton-like microfossils span 2 continents
Jul 18, 2017 (SPX)
The researchers report that the "Kromberg Formation (KF) forms are bona fide, organic Archean microfossils and represent some of the oldest morphologically pres...
Planets Like Earth May Have Had Muddy Origins
Jul 18, 2017 (SPX)
Published in Science Advances, a journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the research suggests that many of the original planetary b...
T. rex was probably pretty slow, scientists claim
Jul 18, 2017 (UPI)
Such was the case for Tyrannosaurus rex. New research suggests the large dino species was a rather slower runner. In fact, he was mostly a walker. For small and...
Dinosaurs' loss was frogs' gain: The upside of a mass extinction
Jul 07, 2017 (SPX)
A new study by Chinese and American biologists shows that if the calamity had not wiped the planet clean of most terrestrial life 66 million years ago, 88 perce...
Sticking your neck out: How did plesiosaurs swim with such long necks?
Jul 07, 2017 (SPX)
"A steady neck would be more hydrodynamic than a bent neck, and due to the pressure on a bent neck, plesiosaurs would probably only bend them when moving at slo...
Ancient animal thought to be first air breather on land loses claim to fame
Jul 07, 2017 (SPX)
The paper was published June 28 in the journal PLOS ONE. The study focuses on a species of millipede called Pneumodesmus newmani, which was thought to have been...
Ancient molecules on fossil leaves reveal relationships among Jurassic-era plants
Jul 06, 2017 (UPI)
The findings -- detailed in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution -- offer new insights into the habitats in which dinosaurs lived. Without genetic data, rel...
Size not important for fish in the largest mass extinction of all time
Jul 03, 2017 (SPX)
However, researchers from the University of Bristol and the Chengdu Center of the China Geological Survey, have found that size played no role in the extinction...
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