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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...
How did dinosaurs learn to fly? Hopping parrots offer clues
May 25, 2017 (UPI)
Branch hopping might have offered dinosaurs an opportunity to begin experimenting with the advantages of flight. To see if, for parrotlets, branch hopping was r...
Large volcanic eruption may have caused the first mass extinction
May 23, 2017 (SPX)
There have been five mass extinctions since the divergent evolution of early animals 600 -450 million years ago (Figure 1). The cause of the third and fourth wa...
The secrets behind T. rex's bone crushing bites: Researchers find T. rex could crush 8,000 pounds
May 22, 2017 (SPX)
In a study published in Scientific Reports, Florida State University Professor of Biological Science Gregory Erickson and Paul Gignac, assistant professor of An...
Life in the Precambrian may have been much livelier than previously thought
May 22, 2017 (SPX)
Scientists have found It extremely difficult to fit these Precambrian species into the tree of life. That is because they lived in a time before organisms devel...
UCR study sheds light on Earth's first animals
May 19, 2017 (SPX)
In their latest study, published this week in the journal PLOS ONE, Scott Evans, a graduate student in the Department of Earth Sciences, and Mary Droser, a prof...
Garden of the Ediacaran was more dynamic than previously thought, study suggests
May 19, 2017 (UPI)
Until recently, scientists believed most of the soft-bodied creatures populating the shallow seas of the Garden of the Ediacaran, 635 to 540 million years ago, ...
Warm-bloodedness emerged 20 million years earlier than previously thought
May 18, 2017 (UPI)
Warm-blooded animals don't need to sunbathe to regulate their internal temperature, their metabolism keeps them sufficiently warm. It's an ability shared by mos...
Jurassic drop in ocean oxygen lasted a million years
May 15, 2017 (SPX)
The depletion of oxygen in the oceans is known as "anoxia", and scientists from the University of Exeter have been studying how periods of anoxia end. They foun...
Earth was barren, flat and almost entirely under water 4.4 billion years ago
May 15, 2017 (SPX)
Lead researcher Dr Antony Burnham said the team studied zircon mineral grains that were preserved in sandstone rocks in the Jack Hills of Western Australia and ...
Ancient proteins studied in detail
May 15, 2017 (SPX)
"We want to understand the process by which a new protein-protein interaction emerges and evolves," says Greta Hultqvist who co-led the study together with Per ...
Giant bird-like dinosaur species found in China: study
May 09, 2017 (AFP)
Measuring about eight metres (26 feet) long and weighing up to 3,000 kilograms (6,600 pounds), the Beibeilong sinensis -- "baby dragon from China" -- lived abou...
Earth started 4.4 billion years ago as a barren water world
May 08, 2017 (UPI)
Researchers determined the composition of early Earth by analyzing zircon mineral grains trapped in ancient sandstone, the oldest rock fragments recovered by sc...
Research sheds new light on 'world's oldest animal fossils'
May 04, 2017 (SPX)
The Weng'an Biota is a fossil Konservat-Lagerstatte in South China that is around 600 million-years-old and provides an unparalleled snapshot of marine life dur...
The evolutionary origin of the vertebrate brain
May 02, 2017 (SPX)
The findings show that the interpretation maintained hitherto regarding the principal regions formed at the beginning of vertebrate brain development is not cor...
Discovery in northern lakes may be key to understanding early life on Earth
May 01, 2017 (SPX)
Scientists from the University of Waterloo led the team of microbiologists, geochemists, and freshwater specialists in a surprising finding that lakes of the Bo...
Extinction risk for many species vastly underestimated, study suggests
Apr 27, 2017 (SPX)
The maps describing species' geographic ranges, which are used by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) to determine threat status, appear t...
Paleontologists identify new 508-million-year-old sea creature with can opener-like pincers
Apr 27, 2017 (SPX)
The creature, named Tokummia katalepsis by the researchers, is a new and exceptionally well-preserved fossilized arthropod - a ubiquitous group of invertebrate ...
New fossil could represent world's oldest fungus
Apr 25, 2017 (UPI)
If confirmed, the discovery could force scientists to rethink the timing of early evolution on Earth. The fossil patterns were discovered in rock samples recove...
The formation of gold deposits in South Africa
Apr 24, 2017 (SPX)
In 1852, the English prospector J.H. Davis discovered the first gold in the Witwatersrand, leading to the South African gold rush and the discovery of much more...
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