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New study reveals how frogs flourished after dinosaurs croaked
Jul 03, 2017 (AFP)
As many as 10 types of frogs are believed to have survived the mass extinction some 66 million years ago, which erased three-quarters of life on Earth, said the...
Ancient Swiss reptile shows its bizarre scale armor for the first time
Jul 03, 2017 (SPX)
About 20 centimeters in length, the Swiss reptile was small and juvenile, but its skin was already strongly armored with variously formed smooth, jagged or even...
Paleontologists identify extinction event among marine megafauna
Jun 26, 2017 (UPI)
Paleontologists at the University of Zurich analyzed marine fossils dated to the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs, from 5.3 million to 9,700 years BC. "We were a...
How eggs got their shapes
Jun 26, 2017 (SPX)
The answer to that question may help explain how birds evolved and solve an old mystery in natural history. An international team of scientists led by researche...
Fossil holds new insights into how fish evolved onto land
Jun 26, 2017 (SPX)
The fossil of an early snake-like animal - called Lethiscus stocki - has kept its evolutionary secrets for the last 340-million years. Now, an international tea...
Animal evolution: Hot start, followed by cold shock
Jun 22, 2017 (SPX)
The fossil record reveals that almost all of the animal phyla known today had come into existence by the beginning of the Cambrian Period some 540 million years...
Volcanic eruptions triggered dawn of the dinosaurs
Jun 22, 2017 (SPX)
The event also caused huge changes in land vegetation, and while it remains a mystery why the dinosaurs survived this event, they went on to fill the vacancies ...
Brazilian carnivorous mammal-like reptile fossil may be new Aleodon species
Jun 16, 2017 (SPX)
Aleodon is a genus of probainognathian cynodont, a taxon which evolved in the Triassic period, co-existed with dinosaur precursors and other archosaurs and even...
Otter fossil suggests ancient mammals migrated across Mexico, from Florida to California
Jun 14, 2017 (UPI)
The fossil, which scientists described in the journal Biology Letters, is the first piece of hard evidence offered in support of a transcontinental migration ro...
3-D-modeling of food residues in 230 million years old fossil feces
Jun 12, 2017 (SPX)
Examples from two faeces of Triassic age (230 million years old) include delicate remains of beetles in one, and a half-complete fish and fragments of crushed b...
Geology and biology agree on Pangaea supercontinent breakup dates
Jun 12, 2017 (SPX)
When continents break up, single species are divided into two and drift apart - physically and genetically. Lead researcher Sarah McIntyre said geologic dating ...
Comets may have delivered significant portions of Earth's xenon
Jun 12, 2017 (SPX)
Xenon is the heaviest stable noble gas. It has nine different isotopes (essentially "weights"), which scientists can trace through the cosmos and use to determi...
Paleontologists find Cretaceous-era baby bird trapped in amber
Jun 08, 2017 (UPI)
The baby bird became trapped in tree sap just a few days after hatching. The resin hardened into amber, preserving roughly roughly half of the tiny bird, includ...
Scientists unearth world's oldest mushroom fossil
Jun 07, 2017 (UPI)
The 115-million-year-old fossil was discovered in the limestone in Brazil. The mineralized mushroom hails from a time when all of the world's continents formed ...
Scientists unveil Japan's largest complete dinosaur skeleton
Jun 06, 2017 (UPI)
The bones belong to a duck-billed dinosaur specimen. Paleontologists from Hokkaido University and Hobetsu Museum in Mukawa have been excavating the skeleton sin...
Paleobiologists make intriguing new discoveries about dinosaur ancestors
Jun 01, 2017 (SPX)
Dinosaurs' closest ancestors were at the base of the bird branch. Many scientists have pictured them in a somewhat chicken-like shape, bipedal, quite quick and ...
Genetic analysis of New World birds confirms untested evolutionary assumption
May 31, 2017 (SPX)
An implicit assumption in the discipline of speciation biology is that genetic differences between populations of animals and plants in a given species are impo...
Just how old are animals
May 31, 2017 (SPX)
Yet, fossils are rare, difficult to interpret, and new, older fossils are constantly discovered. An alternative approach to date the 'tree of life' is the molec...
New insights into the ancestors of all complex life
May 30, 2017 (SPX)
The research provides a new evolutionary tree for the Archaea that will help to make sense of their biodiversity, and provides a new window into the early histo...
New species of bus-sized fossil marine reptile unearthed in Russia
May 30, 2017 (SPX)
Spanning more than 135 Ma during the 'Age of Dinosaurs', plesiosaur marine reptiles represent one of longest-lived radiations of aquatic tetrapods and certainly...
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